Platforms · BigCommerce Development
We build BigCommerce storefronts that hold up to real catalogues and real order volume: Stencil themes, multi storefront channels, headless front ends on Next.js, B2B pricing rules, and migrations that protect the rankings you already have.
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OlDevs is a full-stack technology studio in Vancouver, British Columbia that designs, builds and maintains BigCommerce storefronts for North American merchants.Our work covers Stencil theme development, the catalogue and multi storefront model, and headless builds that pair the BigCommerce Catalog and GraphQL Storefront APIs with a Next.js front end. We also handle B2B Edition capabilities such as company accounts and price lists, payments, tax and shipping setup, ERP and marketplace integrations, and migrations from Shopify, Adobe Commerce or a legacy custom cart. Every engagement starts with a scoped quote, and clients own all code, designs, accounts and IP.
Key facts
Platform expertise
We build and extend Stencil themes with Handlebars templates, stencil-cli local development and versioned front end assets, then wire Page Builder regions and custom widgets so your marketing team can edit layouts without a developer ticket.
Product options, modifiers, variants, custom fields, price lists and customer groups are modelled once and published across channels. Multi storefront lets you run separate brands, currencies, themes and catalogues from a single BigCommerce control panel.
For teams that want full control of the front end we build a React and Next.js storefront on the GraphQL Storefront API, with cart and checkout handled by BigCommerce. Catalyst, the BigCommerce Next.js starter, is a sensible base, current at the time of writing.
Company accounts, buyer roles, quotes, shopping lists, invoice payment and customer specific price lists let wholesale buyers self serve. We configure B2B Edition, extend the buyer portal and connect approval rules to the way your sales team already works.
We configure gateways, wallets and fraud rules for Canadian and United States sellers, set up automated tax or manual tax tables for GST, HST, PST, QST and state sales tax, and connect real time carrier rates with pickup in store where it fits.
Orders, inventory, customers and pricing move between BigCommerce and your ERP or PIM through webhooks, the REST management APIs and middleware. Feed driven listings extend the same catalogue to marketplaces and shopping channels.
Process
Discovery
We review your catalogue, order volume, integrations and the reasons the current store falls short, then agree what success looks like in plain language.
Architecture and quote
You get a written plan: Stencil or headless, channel structure, integration map, migration approach and a scoped quote. No numbers before we understand the work.
Build
Weekly demos on a staging storefront. Catalogue, theme, integrations and content are built in parallel with a shared backlog you can see at any time.
Migrate and launch
Data moves in staged passes, redirects are mapped URL by URL, and we run a rehearsal before the real cutover so launch day is dull on purpose.
Support and iterate
Post launch we monitor errors, checkout completion and page performance, then work through a prioritised backlog of improvements at your pace.
How we work
Options, modifiers, variants, SKUs and price lists are decided before any template work, because the catalogue model drives search, filtering, feeds and every downstream integration.
Stencil is faster to launch and easier for a marketing team to own. Headless earns its keep when you need bespoke interaction, shared components or content from another system. We recommend the one your team can maintain.
Work lands in a Git repository you own, with a staging storefront and a preview link. You see a working demo every week rather than a long silence followed by a reveal.
Templates, filters, forms and checkout are built to WCAG 2.2 AA, tested with a keyboard and a screen reader, not just checked with an automated scanner.
Analytics, consent, server side events where they help, and clean product and order data. If a number cannot be traced back to a real event, it does not go on the dashboard.
You keep the store, the repository, the apps and the API accounts. Documentation covers the theme, the integrations and the runbook for common changes.
Who it's for
Multi brand and multi region sellers that need channel separation, ERP integration, procurement friendly checkout and a governance trail for every change.
Member pricing, restricted catalogues, purchase orders, bilingual EN and FR storefronts and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility that stands up to a formal audit.
One catalogue, many storefronts. Head office controls pricing, brand and product data while locations get their own channel, inventory view and pickup options.
A clean Stencil build that launches quickly, keeps operating costs predictable and leaves room to go headless later without rebuilding the back end.
Since 2014
Building commerce systems
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FAQ
BigCommerce suits merchants with complex catalogues, B2B pricing rules or several storefronts under one account, because much of that is native rather than app dependent. Shopify often wins on app ecosystem and speed to launch. A fully custom build only makes sense when your commerce logic is genuinely unusual and you are ready to own the whole stack.
Multi storefront lets one BigCommerce account run several storefronts as separate channels, each with its own theme, domain, currency, catalogue selection and price lists, while inventory, orders and customers stay in one place. It fits brand families, regional sites, franchise locations and a retail plus wholesale split without running two disconnected stores.
Only when the front end is doing something a Stencil theme cannot. Headless gives you full control of rendering, routing and component reuse across web and app, and BigCommerce supplies the GraphQL Storefront API plus a Next.js starter, Catalyst, current at the time of writing. It also adds hosting, build and maintenance work your team has to carry.
Yes. We migrate catalogues, customers, historical orders, content and URLs from Shopify, Adobe Commerce, WooCommerce and custom carts. The work is staged: a structure pass, a data pass, a redirect map checked URL by URL, then a rehearsal cutover. Customer passwords usually cannot transfer, so we plan a reset flow that does not lose accounts.
We set up tax by zone or automated tax so GST, HST, PST and QST apply correctly by province, and we test edge cases such as exempt products and out of province shipping. For payments we configure the gateways and wallets your bank and customers actually use, with fraud rules and refund flows tested before launch. Your accountant reviews the setup before go live.
B2B Edition brings company accounts with multiple buyers and roles, customer specific price lists, quote requests, shopping lists, invoice and purchase order style payment, and a buyer portal for order history and reordering. It removes most of the custom development wholesale sellers used to need, and we extend it where your approval or credit rules differ.
You do. The BigCommerce account, the domain, the theme repository, the app connections, the API credentials and the design files are yours from day one, registered in your name. We work inside your accounts rather than ours, document everything at handover, and you can move the work to another team whenever you choose.
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