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Commerce.com helps businesses sell to consumers and other businesses, serving merchants from small firms to large enterprises. BigCommerce runs their online stores; Feedonomics manages product information and distributes it across sales channels; Makeswift lets teams build and update websites visually. Merchants can combine these products with outside systems for tasks such as payments, shipping and inventory management rather than replace all their existing software.
Most revenue comes from subscriptions and recurring professional services. Merchants generally pay for each online store, with pricing tied to features, sales or order volume. Existing customers can spend more by adding stores, using more Feedonomics services or adopting additional products. Commerce.com also earns revenue through technology partners, including revenue shares tied to joint customers’ sales, integrations and marketing arrangements. PayPal, Google and Stripe generate significant partner revenue.
The business depends on merchants renewing and expanding their use, and on outside applications continuing to work with its platform. One unnamed customer contributes a substantial share of revenue. Privacy rules constrain how Commerce.com and its vendors use personal data, while export controls and sanctions can restrict where it distributes its software and who can use it.
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Commerce.com's results also depend on keeping significant revenue-generating technology partnerships, including privately held Stripe.
Shopify competes with Commerce.com's BigCommerce for merchants paying for online stores and business-to-business selling tools, from small businesses to enterprises. Watch Shopify Plus and enterprise merchants: they generate most of Shopify's merchant sales volume and overlap with BigCommerce's large-customer market.
VTEX competes with Commerce.com's BigCommerce for large merchants paying for commerce platforms, and both can collect higher subscription fees as those merchants' sales grow. VTEX's subscription revenue from its largest paying customers is worth watching for a read on that market.
Lightspeed Commerce Inc. competes with Commerce.com for growing small and midsize retailers paying for software to sell online and in physical stores. Watch its retail customers adding locations or needing more complex tools—the same expansion can create demand for more Commerce.com stores and capabilities.
Klaviyo, Inc. and Commerce.com both benefit when online retailers grow and spend more on software: retailers pay Klaviyo for marketing and customer-data tools, and Commerce.com for storefront and product-data tools. Watch demand for Klaviyo's retail and eCommerce subscriptions as a sign of merchants' willingness to invest in digital commerce.
PayPal processes merchants' payments for fees and generates significant partner revenue for Commerce.com, whose revenue-sharing income generally rises with customer transactions. Watch payment activity and the continuity of this partnership, since a disruption could reduce Commerce.com's revenue.
Global-E Online Ltd. and Commerce.com both serve merchants expanding online sales internationally: merchants pay Global-e to handle overseas checkout, taxes and orders, while Commerce.com supplies their commerce platforms. Watch demand for Global-e's international order services alongside Commerce.com customers opening stores in additional geographies.
Commerce.com depends on Alphabet's Google both for significant partner revenue and for hosting most platform functions; Google's ads, paid for by advertisers to drive clicks and engagement, also complement Feedonomics' distribution of product data. Watch the partnership and Google Cloud service disruptions, which could cut Commerce.com's revenue or interrupt merchants' stores.
PayPal Holdings, Inc. earningsPYPL
PayPal’s report will show how merchant payment activity is moving, offering a read on the transaction-linked partner revenue it shares with Commerce.com.
Watch whether PayPal’s merchant payment activity strengthens or weakens. Stronger activity means transactions processed through PayPal may support Commerce.com’s revenue share; weaker activity could pressure that channel. PayPal’s overall results cannot establish whether the partnership has changed, but they can indicate how much transaction activity may support this part of Commerce.com’s revenue.
Alphabet Inc. earningsGOOG
Google’s report will offer clues about its cloud and partner businesses, which matter to Commerce.com because Google Cloud hosts most of its platform functions and Google is a significant revenue partner.
Watch Google Cloud and partner-business results, along with any disclosed service disruptions or partnership changes. Strength in the relevant businesses without major disruption disclosures would support the view that these relationships continue to provide Commerce.com with partner revenue and technology services; weakness or disruptions would put both dependencies in focus. Alphabet’s report does not directly measure Commerce.com’s platform uptime, so the conclusion is whether the revenue relationship and the services Commerce.com relies on appear intact.
Shopify Inc. earningsSHOP
Shopify’s report will show merchant sales activity on its platform, a read on the enterprise competition facing Commerce.com’s BigCommerce.
Focus on merchant sales volume from Shopify Plus and enterprise merchants. Sales volume is the value of goods merchants sell, not Shopify’s or Commerce.com’s revenue. Rising volume would point to strong demand in the large-merchant market BigCommerce competes for, making competition more intense; falling volume could ease that pressure, but would not show that merchants are moving to Commerce.com.
Commerce.com, Inc. Series 1 earningsThis company
Commerce.com’s report will show whether existing customers are expanding their use of its commerce platform and whether subscription growth is improving the business’s economics.
Read Subscription ARR alongside net revenue retention (NRR, a measure of revenue expansion or contraction from existing customers). If both rise, the subscription base from existing customers is growing; falling NRR means customer cutbacks are still shrinking that base. Then compare gross margin with operating loss: a steady margin and narrower loss would show growth translating into better operating economics; a wider loss would show it has not.
