One-Click Catalyst

One-Click Catalyst simplifies the process of setting up a fully customizable headless ecommerce storefront with BigCommerce. It not only creates a storefront but also deploys a hosted preview and provisions a corresponding site in BigCommerce’s visual editor, Makeswift.

Settings for deploying a new Catalyst storefront

This code-free starting point allows marketers and content authors to explore Catalyst’s features and Makeswift’s design capabilities without needing a developer. Specifically, you’ll be able to:

Customize site theme and design
Create and edit layouts
Create and edit pages
Incorporate BigCommerce product data

Note that the automatically deployed storefront is only intended to be used for previewing your storefront, so you’ll need to follow our deploying documentation to take your storefront to production.

After completing the initial One-click Catalyst setup in the BigCommerce dashboard you will have:

An instance of Catalyst deployed to the BigCommerce partner sandbox account
Two Makeswift sites
- Production site - connected to the deployed Catalyst instance
- Development site - connected to http://localhost:3000

For more details on setting up a storefront using One-Click Catalyst you can refer to our Getting Started documentation. Additionally, here are a few more documents that might be helpful.

How to Develop Locally

Versioning in Catalyst

How to Deploy Catalyst