HOW WE COMPARE

Not a storefront platform. A complete e-commerce operating system (Shopify & BigCommerce).

Shopify and BigCommerce build storefronts. Calisto builds storefronts and handles fulfillment, customer service, accounting, shipping, compliance, and marketing. One platform where you used to need fourteen vendors.

71 Products · 75 Payment Gateways · 26 Shipping Carriers · 8 Suites Integrated

Retailer online

Feature by feature

Calisto Pro beside BigCommerce

16 Only in Calisto Pro
4 In both

Calisto Pro beside BigCommerce, feature by feature
20 features	Calisto Pro	BigCommerce
Storefront + Product Pages + Checkout	Sì	Sì
Built-in Email Marketing (No Klaviyo Required)	Sì	No
Built-in Review Aggregation (No Yotpo Required)	Sì	No
26-Carrier Shipping with Cross-Border Customs	Sì	No
Multi-Warehouse Inventory Allocation	Sì	No
Built-in Customer Service Inbox + VoIP	Sì	No
Branded Native Mobile App	Sì	No
Live Shopping and Influencer Broadcasts	Sì	No
50+ Regional Payment Methods at Checkout	Sì	No
Product Compliance Tracking (Food, Cosmetics)	Sì	No
Warehouse IoT and Cold-Chain Monitoring	Sì	No
Built-in Accounting + Tax Remittance	Sì	No
Dynamic Pricing and Flash Sale Engine	Sì	No
Referral and Affiliate Program	Sì	No
Own-Fleet Last-Mile Delivery Dispatch	Sì	No
Bring Your Own Database / Storage	Sì	No
Staff Training LMS (University)	Sì	No
Product SEO + Google Shopping Feed	Sì	Sì
Subscription / Recurring Billing	Sì	Sì
B2B / Wholesale Portal	Sì	Sì

What replaces it

What runs online retailers on Calisto

The apps that take over from BigCommerce, each in the words online retailers businesses use.

Storefront platforms vs. a complete e-commerce OS

	The Old Way	The Calisto Way
Storefront + checkout	Core feature	Native: Sites + 75 payment methods
Email marketing	Third-party (Klaviyo, $$$)	Native: Campaigns, included
Reviews + UGC	Third-party (Yotpo, $$$)	Native: Reputation, included
Shipping labels	Third-party (ShipStation)	Native: 26 carriers, rate-shopped
Customer service	Third-party (Gorgias)	Native: Inbox + VoIP, included
Mobile app	Third-party (Tapcart)	Native: Apps, included
Subscriptions	Third-party (Recharge)	Native: Purview recurring, included
Multi-warehouse inventory	Not available	Built-in with auto-allocation
Cross-border customs	Not available	26 carriers, HS codes, duties
Accounting + tax remittance	Third-party (QuickBooks + tax tool)	Native: Ledger + auto tax
Product compliance	Not available	Assure: food, cosmetics, regulated
Data sovereignty	Platform-controlled	Your database or ours
B2B wholesale	Enterprise tier or a parallel stock pool	Native: the same stock pool as DTC

What moves

Bringing your data from BigCommerce

Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.

From an export file

Export your data from BigCommerce and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.

Any spreadsheet you export from BigCommerce can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.

The BigCommerce migration guide Move my data

PRICING TRANSPARENCY

1% of revenue on Commerce. Core is included.

Shopify and BigCommerce charge a monthly plan fee before the app-store subscriptions a working store needs. Calisto charges nothing to set up. Core carries no additional cost. Commerce is a 1% revenue share. Every other suite is priced per app in the Marketplace.

Calisto Pro

1%of revenue

Revenue share on Commerce

Shopify

Plan fee + app stack

Monthly plan · Per-app subscriptions for email, reviews, shipping, support · Payment surcharge off Shopify Payments

BigCommerce

Plan fee + revenue tiers

Monthly plan · Tier upgrades triggered by sales volume · App marketplace extras

Storefront + Full Operations

Shopify and BigCommerce build storefronts. Calisto builds storefronts AND handles fulfillment, customer service, accounting, shipping, compliance, and marketing. One platform where you used to need fourteen vendors.

Storefront + Full Operations
Shopify and BigCommerce build storefronts. Calisto builds storefronts AND handles fulfillment, customer service, accounting, shipping, compliance, and marketing. One platform where you used to need fourteen vendors. 75 payment methods including regional rails. 26-carrier rate shopping with cross-border customs. Built-in customer service inbox + VoIP. Accounting + automated tax remittance.
Global from Day One
Most e-commerce platforms assume US-first or US-only. Calisto supports multi-language storefronts, multi-currency checkout with regional payment methods (PIX, UPI, M-Pesa), 26 shipping carriers across continents, and data residency where GDPR, PIPEDA, or LGPD require it. Multi-language storefronts with currency localization. PIX, UPI, M-Pesa, iDEAL, Bancontact at checkout. Cross-border customs documentation automated. Customer PII residency for GDPR / PIPEDA / LGPD.

Honest answers

Common questions about switching

What does Calisto replace that Shopify does not include?

Shopify provides a storefront and checkout. Everything else requires third-party apps: Klaviyo for email (variable monthly cost based on list size), Yotpo for reviews (variable monthly cost), ShipStation for shipping (variable monthly cost), Gorgias for customer service (variable monthly cost), Recharge for subscriptions (variable monthly cost), Tapcart for a mobile app (variable monthly cost). Calisto includes all of these natively: Campaigns for email, Reputation for reviews, Orderflow for shipping, Inbox for customer service, Purview for subscriptions, Apps for mobile. One subscription replaces fourteen.

Can Calisto handle the same transaction volume as Shopify Plus?

Yes. The same data model that powers multi-country hotel operations and festival ticketing platforms handles high-volume e-commerce. Multi-warehouse inventory allocation, 26-carrier shipping, and multi-currency checkout are native capabilities, not bolt-ons. You do not need to upgrade to a separate enterprise tier to access fulfillment, compliance, or customer service tools.

Does Calisto support Shopify apps and themes?

No. Calisto is a complete platform, not a Shopify alternative with an add-on marketplace. The 14 categories of third-party apps that Shopify sellers typically install (email, reviews, shipping, support, subscriptions, mobile app, loyalty, affiliates, photography, SEO, ads, accounting, tax, analytics) are all native products within Calisto. You do not need an app store because the functionality is already built in.

How does pricing compare?

Setup costs nothing and there is no credit card required to start. Core carries no additional cost. Commerce is a 1% revenue share. Every other suite is priced per app in the Marketplace. Compare that to Shopify (variable monthly cost) plus Klaviyo, Yotpo, ShipStation, Gorgias, Recharge and Tapcart, each with their own monthly cost. Most sellers spend significant monthly amounts on their e-commerce stack before they process a single order.

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Everything Calisto does here

The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.