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Is BigCommerce Down?

No — BigCommerce is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 327ms

Last checked · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.bigcommerce.com

BigCommerce uptime

100%
Last 7 days
100%
Last 30 days
100%
Last 90 days
348ms
Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 18 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

18-day clean streak
Jul 19: no data
Jul 20: no data
Jul 21: no data
Jul 22: no data
Jul 23: no data
Jul 24: no data
Jul 25: no data
Jul 26: no data
Jul 27: no data
Jul 28: no data
Jul 29: no data
Jul 30: no data
Jul 31: 100.00% uptime, 16 checks
Aug 1: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Aug 2: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Aug 3: 100.00% uptime, 24 checks
Aug 4: 100.00% uptime, 48 checks
Aug 5: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Aug 6: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Aug 7: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Aug 8: 100.00% uptime, 24 checks
Aug 9: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Aug 10: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Aug 11: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Aug 12: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Aug 13: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Aug 14: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Aug 15: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Aug 16: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Aug 17: 100.00% uptime, 24 checks
Jul 19 Today
No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

ewr
366ms
DNS 150ms TCP 1ms TLS 6ms TTFB 351ms
fra
325ms
DNS 26ms TCP 1ms TLS 6ms TTFB 309ms
gru
227ms
DNS 0ms TCP 3ms TLS 11ms TTFB 189ms
iad
357ms
DNS 135ms TCP 2ms TLS 11ms TTFB 337ms
jnb
305ms
DNS 3ms TCP 0ms TLS 4ms TTFB 273ms
lax
404ms
DNS 133ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 380ms
lhr
286ms
DNS 60ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 252ms
nrt
371ms
DNS 187ms TCP 1ms TLS 6ms TTFB 354ms
ord
343ms
DNS 145ms TCP 2ms TLS 15ms TTFB 319ms

What BigCommerce does

BigCommerce hosts online stores, running the storefront customers browse, the checkout that takes their money and the control panel merchants work in. Larger retailers also use it headlessly, serving a custom front end from the BigCommerce API. When it is unavailable the shop is unreachable, so for a merchant this is revenue rather than inconvenience.

What an outage looks like

The storefront loads slowly or returns an error page for shoppers, and checkout fails at the payment step while the rest of the catalogue browses normally. The control panel will not load, so staff cannot edit products or view orders. API and webhook consumers stop receiving order events, leaving fulfilment systems idle. Headless stores can go blank even though the admin side is reachable.

What to do about it

Check status.bigcommerce.com, which separates Storefront, Checkout & Payment Processing, Control Panel, API & Webhooks, Email and Reporting, and also tracks the third party services embedded in checkout, including Stripe, Braintree and Avalara. Note BigCommerce states it may not post notices for short-duration issues or ones affecting only a small number of stores, so a green page does not rule out a problem with your store.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says BigCommerce is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from all 18 regions to find out where it breaks.

Test it yourself

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BigCommerce outage FAQ

My store is broken but the status page is green. Is that possible?
Yes, and BigCommerce says so directly. Its status page states that notices may not be posted for short-duration issues or for issues that only impact a small number of stores. A green page means no broad incident has been declared, not that every store is healthy. Independent measurement of your own storefront is what closes that gap.
Is checkout affected if the storefront is working?
It can be, because they are separate components. Checkout and payment processing is tracked apart from the storefront, so shoppers can browse the catalogue normally and then fail at the moment of payment. That combination is worse than a full outage commercially, since traffic keeps arriving and converting to nothing. Test an actual checkout rather than only loading the home page.
Could the problem be a third party rather than BigCommerce?
Often it is, and the status page reflects that by listing Stripe, Braintree, Braintree PayPal processing and Avalara as tracked third party services. A payment failure at checkout may be the processor rather than the platform, and a tax calculation error may be Avalara. Checking which of those is degraded points at the right vendor faster than opening a support ticket.
Do orders placed during an outage get lost?
Orders that completed are stored and appear in the control panel once it is reachable. The larger risk is orders that never completed, and fulfilment systems that missed their webhook. After recovery, reconcile recent orders against your downstream systems rather than assuming events replayed, because a missed webhook can leave a paid order sitting unfulfilled.
Does a control panel outage stop customers buying?
Not by itself. The control panel is the merchant admin interface and is tracked separately from the storefront, so shoppers can continue browsing and checking out while staff cannot log in to manage the store. The reverse is also true, which is why reading the individual components matters more than the overall banner.

How we measure this

  • We request BigCommerce's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — 8 of them answered the most recent check.
  • A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
  • A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
  • Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
  • Where BigCommerce publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.

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