Checkout Customizability
BigCommerce provides significant levels of checkout customizability. If you just want to modify the theme by overriding the style of BigCommerce’s Optimized One-Page Checkout, please see Restyle Optimized One-Page Checkout. However, if you want to build a custom checkout, there are two paths that a developer can choose to use.
The first path is to render the checkout on the BigCommerce storefront. With the storefront suite of APIs and SDKs, BigCommerce as a platform maintains responsibility for managing shopper sessions using cookies and all our standard mechanisms.
The second path is to render the checkout experience outside of the BigCommerce storefront. The Management APIs are for consumption by other servers on the internet, which in turn are responsible for session management, whether that’s a website running on a CMS or a native mobile app.
Once a developer has chosen a path, they can choose the options they want to use to build the custom checkout. The table below provides an overview of the different options available to help developers select the one that best suits their needs.
