Earnings call transcript: Commerce.com Q3 2025 sees EPS beat, stock surges

Commerce.com Inc. (CMRC) reported its Q3 2025 earnings, showcasing a significant earnings per share (EPS) beat that sent its stock soaring in premarket trading. The company posted an EPS of $0.08, a remarkable 300% above the forecasted $0.02. Despite a slight revenue miss, with actual revenue at $86 million versus a forecast of $86.03 million, the market reacted positively, with shares jumping 16.7% to $5.45 in premarket activity.

Key Takeaways

• EPS of $0.08 significantly exceeded expectations, marking a 300% surprise.
• Revenue of $86 million, a 3% increase year-over-year, slightly missed forecasts.
• Stock surged 16.7% in premarket trading, reflecting strong investor confidence.
• Strategic focus on AI-driven commerce and product innovation.
• Rebranded to Commerce, emphasizing a product-led growth strategy.

Company Performance

Commerce.com demonstrated robust performance in Q3 2025, with revenue increasing by 3% year-over-year to $86 million. The company’s strategic pivot towards AI-driven commerce and product innovation appears to be paying off, as evidenced by the positive market reaction and stock price surge. The rebranding from BigCommerce to Commerce underscores its commitment to a product-led growth strategy, aiming to simplify product packaging and improve operational efficiency.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $86 million, a 3% increase year-over-year.
• Earnings per share: $0.08, surpassing the forecast by 300%.
• Non-GAAP operating income: $8 million, representing 9% of revenue.
• Operating cash flow: Approximately $11 million.
• Net debt reduced by 86% since Q3 2023.

Earnings vs. Forecast

Commerce.com delivered an EPS of $0.08, significantly outperforming the forecasted $0.02, resulting in a 300% surprise. However, revenue fell slightly short of expectations, with an actual figure of $86 million compared to a forecast of $86.03 million. This earnings beat marks a notable improvement compared to previous quarters, highlighting the company’s successful execution of its strategic initiatives.

Market Reaction

The market responded enthusiastically to Commerce.com’s earnings report, with shares climbing 16.7% to $5.45 in premarket trading. This surge reflects strong investor confidence in the company’s future prospects, particularly in light of its strategic focus on AI-driven commerce solutions and product innovation. The stock’s performance also places it comfortably within its 52-week range, between a low of $4.14 and a high of $7.99.

Outlook & Guidance

Commerce.com provided a positive outlook for the remainder of 2025, with Q4 revenue guidance set between $87.8 million and $92.8 million. The company also projects full-year 2025 revenue to range from $340.6 million to $345.6 million. With a focus on profitable growth and operational efficiency, Commerce.com plans to continue investing in AI and commerce technologies, aiming to capitalize on emerging market opportunities.

Executive Commentary

Travis Hess, CEO of Commerce.com, emphasized the company’s strategic direction, stating, "The future of commerce is intelligent, composable, and agentic." He also highlighted the need for accelerated growth, noting, "We need to grow faster, and we need to do so more profitably." Hess underscored the importance of data quality, asserting, "It is the quality of data that determines whether you get seen, chosen, and purchased."

Risks and Challenges

• Potential supply chain disruptions could impact operational efficiency.
• Increasing competition in the AI-driven commerce space may pressure margins.
• Macroeconomic uncertainties could affect consumer spending and business investment.
• Dependence on strategic partnerships for growth may pose integration challenges.
• Rapid technological changes require continuous innovation and adaptation.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts inquired about the impact of AI on commerce discovery, the details of the PayPal partnership, and the company’s product unbundling strategies. Executives addressed these topics, highlighting the growing importance of AI in shaping consumer behavior and the strategic benefits of their partnerships and product strategies.

Full transcript - Commerce.com Inc (CMRC) Q3 2025:

Conference Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Commerce Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker’s presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your first speaker today, Tyler Duncan, Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations. You may begin.

Tyler Duncan, Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations, Commerce: Good morning, and welcome to Commerce’s, formerly BigCommerce’s, Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. We will be discussing the results announced in our press release issued before today’s market open. With me are Commerce’s Chief Executive Officer, Travis Hess, and Chief Financial Officer, Daniel Lintz. Today’s call will contain certain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning financial and business trends, as well as our expected future business and financial performance, financial condition, and our guidance for both the fourth quarter of 2025 and the full year 2025. These statements can be identified by words such as expect, anticipate, intend, plan, believe, seek, committed, will, or similar words.

These statements reflect our views as of today only and should not be relied upon as representing our views at any subsequent date, and we undertake any duty to update these statements. Forward-looking statements, by their nature, address matters that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. For discussion of the material risks and other important factors that could affect our actual results, please refer to the risks and other disclosures contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. During the call, we will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, which are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

A reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, as well as how we define these metrics and other metrics, is included in our earnings press release, which has been furnished to the SEC and is also available on our website at investors.commerce.com. With that, let me turn the call over to Travis.

Travis Hess, Chief Executive Officer, Commerce: Thanks, Tyler, and good morning, everyone. Q3 marked another solid step forward for Commerce. We delivered revenue of $86 million in line with our guidance range. Non-GAAP operating income reached $8 million, which significantly exceeded the high end of our profitability guidance, while operating cash flow came in just under $11 million. For the 12 months ending September 30, 2025, we had total revenue of $340 million and non-GAAP operating income just above $30 million. For the three months ended September 30, 2025, we had approximately 80.8 million common shares outstanding and 81.3 million fully diluted shares outstanding. We are now in full execution mode, and our focus is on scaling profitable, sustainable growth across each of our core offerings. AI is reshaping how customers discover, evaluate, and purchase products. The future of commerce is intelligent, composable, and agentic.

Traditional e-commerce flows are shifting to conversational discovery, personalized curation, and increasingly autonomous purchase journeys. AI agents like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity are fast becoming the entry point for commerce. This requires a fundamental shift in how merchants think about visibility, relevance, and conversion. When product discovery begins with a prompt, not a home page, it is the quality of data that determines whether you get seen, chosen, and purchased. We’ve architected Commerce to meet this shift head-on. Feedonomics syndicates enriched, structured product data into all major AI services. Merchants can surface their catalogs in the exact context where intent is detected and decisions are made. We are building and launching new products anchored by Feedonomics to meet this need, and we see strong pipeline signals emerging as we head into the holiday period.

Similarly, Makeswift empowers marketers to build and update AI-optimized site experiences in real time without writing code. Through our open modular platform, merchants can seamlessly integrate AI-driven services, whether it’s agent-assistance support, dynamic pricing, intelligent fulfillment, or automated merchandising, directly into their stack and at their own pace. Last week, PayPal reinforced our shared vision by publicly announcing a new initiative focused on enabling agentic commerce and named Commerce as a strategic partner in that effort. This recognition underscores our leadership position for an AI-led future. It further validates the architecture, openness, and data infrastructure we built over the last year. This isn’t a theoretical roadmap. It’s already happening. Our partnerships with Perplexity, Microsoft, Google, Stripe, and PayPal are examples of how we’re building for an agent-led world where intelligent commerce needs to be fast, adaptive, and always on.

Whether the buyer is a person, an algorithm, or a fully autonomous agent, Commerce ensures our merchants remain discoverable, performant, and in control of their customer experience. Our B2B momentum also remains strong in Q3. We continue to attract some of the world’s most respected brands. We welcomed ADI Global, a leader in security and low-voltage distribution, Big Ass Fans, a global manufacturer known for its high-performance industrial and commercial fans, and Pantone, the world’s authority on color standards and design tools. We also celebrated successful new launches from innovators like F&C Distributors, Hengst, Dynapar, and Fischer Tool Handles, all choosing Commerce to modernize and scale their businesses. In Q3, IDC validated our platform’s impact through its study, the business value of BigCommerce B2B Edition. IDC found that B2B Edition customers achieved a remarkable 391% three-year ROI, a 24% boost in sales productivity, and an 82% improvement in platform stability.

In addition, Gartner once again recognized BigCommerce for its fully integrated B2B capabilities, including native CPQ, our strategic partnership with Pros, and the continued evolution of our Catalyst storefront for B2B experiences. When we announced our new Commerce parent brand last quarter, I committed to take steps to unify our product portfolio. Today, I want to share a couple of steps we have taken in this area that also demonstrate strategic progress with small business customers. In Q3, we launched Feedonomics Surface, a feed management product available to all BigCommerce merchants. Surface gives merchants an easy way to connect and optimize product feeds across Google and Meta directly from their control panel. It represents a clear step forward to bring enterprise-grade capability down market. Future upgrades will include additional paid features such as advertising channels and agentic channels, data enrichment tools, and AI-powered feed optimization features.

We also remain on track with the planned launch of Makeswift on Stencil in 2026. We are also proud to announce that we are bringing Feedonomics Order Orchestration capabilities to BigCommerce customers through Feedonomics Order Orchestration. This capability was previously available only through the larger Feedonomics bundled product suite. It gives merchants the ability to optimize fulfillment across locations with efficiency and control and is now available à la carte to pilot merchants on both BigCommerce and Shopify. It is another step towards realizing our vision of unified commerce from feed to fulfillment. Earlier this week, we announced the launch of new capabilities for Shopify merchants through two applications: Feedonomics for Advertising and Feedonomics for Listings and Orders. These two Feedonomics applications are available in the Shopify App Store and provide a robust foundation that empowers merchants and partners to manage complex, cross-platform operations.

Shopify merchants can improve product discoverability, increase advertising performance, and drive additional revenue for their businesses. In payments, we announced a new embedded payments offering in partnership with PayPal: BigCommerce Payments powered by PayPal. This new co-branded solution will launch in early 2026 and will offer full-stack payment capabilities embedded directly into the BigCommerce control panel. Merchants will be able to manage balances, payouts, currency conversion, and settlement, all from within our platform. We believe this will strengthen retention, expand wallet share, and bring modern payment functionality to thousands of small and mid-sized customers. Looking back on our progress so far in 2025, I see a lot to be proud of and a lot that must still improve. We drove a tremendous amount of organizational change this year: changes in strategy, operations, and leadership. That said, we need to grow faster, and we need to do so more profitably.

That is our focus as we enter 2026 planning. We see a clear path to greater sales and marketing expense efficiency through multiple levers, including partner-led distribution with global system integrators like Accenture, simplified product packaging and pricing for mid-market customers, and tighter resource alignment across key verticals. Taken together, our rebrand to Commerce, our bundling strategy, and our leadership position in agentic commerce are all aligned to deliver measurable results for both our customers and our shareholders. With that, I’ll turn it over to Daniel to walk through the financials.

Daniel Lintz, Chief Financial Officer, Commerce: Thanks, Travis. For those of you who are newer to our story, Commerce serves tens of thousands of accounts globally, including just under 6,000 accounts using our enterprise plans. Our platform powers both B2C and B2B e-commerce for leading brands and manufacturers, with capabilities that span storefront infrastructure, data syndication, and visual design. Our Feedonomics product sits at the center of our data strategy. It ingests, enriches, and syndicates product catalog data across channels like Google, Meta, Amazon, and increasingly AI-driven services like OpenAI, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. This enables merchants to increase discoverability, drive marketing spend performance, and optimize channel-level return on ad spend. As of the end of Q3, our annual revenue run rate was approximately $356 million, with 76% of ARR coming from customers using enterprise plans and corresponding average revenue per account exceeding $46,800.

Our multi-product model combines recurring subscription revenue from our core platform and Feedonomics with revenue share from a curated ecosystem of technology and service partners, all underpinned by a disciplined operating model and strong balance sheet. We remain focused on delivering profitable, high-quality growth by expanding share of wallet within our installed base, acquiring new merchants, and scaling emerging self-service product lines across small and mid-market businesses. In Q3, we delivered revenue of $86 million, a 3% increase year over year and consistent with our guidance range. Non-GAAP operating income landed at $8 million, or 9% of revenue, which exceeded the high end of our profitability guidance by nearly $5 million. This represents a 413 basis points improvement year over year. Operating cash flow is approximately $11 million, marking our second consecutive quarter of double-digit operating cash flow margin and further demonstrating the operating leverage in our model.

ARR ended the quarter at $356 million, up 2% year over year. Enterprise ARR represented 76% of total ARR compared to 74% the prior year, with average revenue per enterprise account reaching $46,806, a 7% increase from Q3 of last year. Non-GAAP gross margin attained at 79%, and we maintained cost discipline even as we reinvested in product development and sales enablement. Partner and services revenue grew modestly to just above $21 million, up 2% year over year. We also strengthened our balance sheet. We closed Q3 with approximately $143 million in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. Our net debt position is now just under $11 million, reflecting an 86% decrease since Q3 of 2023. Additionally, as of December 31, 2024, the company had net operating loss, or NOL, carry forwards for U.S.

federal income tax purposes of approximately $249.7 million, which we expect to continue to offset taxable income in future periods. For the three months ended September 30, 2025, we had approximately $80.8 million common shares outstanding and $81.3 million fully diluted shares outstanding. This strong financial position gives us the flexibility to invest where we see compelling ROI opportunities and maintain discipline in our operating model. Before I turn to guidance, I want to briefly discuss how AI is also helping drive monetization opportunities across our business. As more discovery and decision-making shifts to agent-led interactions, the value of structured, high-quality data and the platforms that manage it increases significantly. This trend plays directly into our core strengths. Feedonomics Surface, which we launched this quarter, starts as a free product for BigCommerce merchants. It also includes a clear and scalable monetized upgrade path.

As merchants grow, adopt more channels, or require deeper feed customization and optimization, we can monetize that growth through premium feature tiers. Similarly, BigCommerce Payments, powered by PayPal, set to launch next year, will generate monetization upside through payments economics and deeper merchant engagement, all within a model that keeps us aligned with merchant success. In both cases, these are product-led growth motions designed to start simple, scale with the customer, and create sustainable revenue streams that improve average revenue per unit and strengthen retention over time. Let me now turn to guidance. For Q4, we expect revenue between $87.8 million and $92.8 million and non-GAAP operating income between $4.3 million and $9.3 million. For the full year 2025, we are updating guidance to reflect our Q3 execution and improve visibility into year-end performance. We now expect full year revenue between $340.6 million and $345.6 million.

We expect full year non-GAAP operating income between $24.7 million and $29.7 million, with a midpoint of $27.2 million representing a $5.2 million increase from our prior midpoint of $22 million. As we look ahead, we are focused on efficiency and operating leverage in top-line revenue motions. We’re focused on scaling responsibly, growing profitably, and driving continued operating leverage across our business. We believe the investments we’re making in product innovation, solutions bundling, and go-to-market efficiency will continue to deliver meaningful returns in 2025 and beyond. With that, Travis and I are happy to take your questions.

Conference Operator: We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touch-tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question today comes from Ken Wong with Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.

Fantastic. Thanks for taking my question. I want to start with you, Daniel. Hoping you could maybe address the sequential decline in enterprise ARR and the downtick in enterprise customers. Would just love a sense of kind of what’s happening there and maybe what you’re seeing in terms of how that might trend going forward.

Daniel Lintz, Chief Financial Officer, Commerce: Yeah, Ken, thanks for the question. I think what we’re seeing there is kind of just a reflection of where we are at in progress through the year. We wanted to be a little bit further along in bookings by this point in the year than where we are. Really, it’s a function primarily of net revenue retention. Last year and the year before, we were around 98% or 99% in net revenue retention. So far this year, we’re in a very similar place. We are absolutely focused on what we’re doing in that area of the business and focusing on our existing customers and existing customer expansion to help drive that.

I think broadly speaking, what we’re seeing in the market, a lot of the energy and focus is in what’s going on in AI and agentic, which is good for us because we’ve got a ton of stuff coming through there, which Travis will speak to here in a minute, that we think is going to build a lot of momentum there. It’s been just a little bit tougher on the platform side, which I think is what’s really reflected in those numbers.

Perfect. Travis, in your prepared remarks, you alluded to seeing some strong signals into the holiday season. We’d love if you could perhaps expand on that and just help us think through how things might play out this Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas season, and kind of how that’s kind of baked into your expectations.

Yeah, thanks, Ken. Yeah, I think a lot of the momentum, as Daniel just alluded to, is certainly around the AI piece. We’ve had several very large brand manufacturers, retailers in closed beta for the last couple of months around AI readiness. We’re kind of adding to that on a weekly basis. We’ll share more about that, obviously, in next quarter’s call. That is where a lot of the peak demand’s in. It’s a lot of what we’re doing in some of the larger GSI motion around distribution, particularly with Accenture having had a tremendous amount of shared clients between themselves and us, particularly on the Feedonomics side, where that is on the B2C side is where almost all of the momentum is right now, just given the time of year. Right now in discovery, it’s starting to trickle into shopping.

Certainly, that’s where most of the efforts, most of the energies are. To Daniel’s point, we’re sitting in a, I think, a really nice spot with, obviously, the existing install base on the Feedonomics side. That will trickle into more Makeswift stuff as we get into more brand agents, merchant agents, things like that that are expanding pretty quickly in here into Q4. We’ll have more to share, obviously, in next quarter’s call. That on the B2C side is there. On the B2B side, we’ve had strong momentum on platform for most of the year. We kind of talked about that in the prepared remarks. We’re continuing to see that into Q4 as well. On the B2C side, it’s been mostly on the data front and the AI front. That’s helpful.

Great. Thank you very much.

You bet.

Conference Operator: The next question comes from DJ Hines with Canaccord. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning, guys. Travis, we’ve obviously seen a number of e-commerce platforms start to partner with these answer engines, right? It feels like a little bit of a land grab, which makes sense given where we are in the cycle. Can you just maybe talk about competitive dynamics of discoverability as it relates to these answer engines? Is it going to come down to who has the most storefronts, who has the most traffic stores, who has the best product data? I guess I’m curious if it’s a function of who has the better product or who gets there first. Any color there would be helpful.

Daniel Lintz, Chief Financial Officer, Commerce: Yeah, that’s a great question. We very much believe it’s the quality of the data. It’s not just the structured data. It’s going to be unstructured data that’s combined. What I mean by unstructured data is anything from product spec sheets to brand guidelines to call center transcripts to articles to blogs to ratings and reviews, user-generated content, you name it. All of those assets can be combined with typical structured data that we’re already enriching and syndicating, and that quality of that data and how it’s being syndicated into these answer engines per their spec, and ultimately the hypotheses of how we’re optimizing to potential prompts and the feedback and the analytics associated with that is ultimately going to drive the most amount of efficacy, in our opinion. Obviously, we’re sitting on many, many of some of the largest brand manufacturers and retailers on the Feedonomics side today.

I mean, that is our moat, the fact that we have the most enriched basis of their catalog and their product data today to syndicate that in. We feel very strongly. As it relates to shopping and monetization, we very much view being open and agnostic as a massive advantage. We do not have a walled garden. We do not need to commercialize it by pushing it through our checkout. We are seeing several different models where that would go through other people’s rails. Some models now that would disrupt traditional channels where we would go through our rails. You saw our announcement around PayPal last week. You are starting to see some of the payment providers that have broad reach, that have security and identification capabilities that are starting to play in this as well.

I think the reality of it is embracing a standard, embracing the enrichment of both structured and unstructured data, the enrichment of such, and being able to syndicate that at scale agnostically, regardless of the commercial model or regardless of where the market takes us, we think is the ultimate advantage. It is hard to read the tea leaves for those not in the space because it seems like every week it is changing and seems to be one trying to disintermediate somebody else. The reality of it is that openness coupled with the existing client relationships and what we are doing on a day-in and day-out basis, we feel is a massive advantage for where we are. That is helpful.

Yeah. Yeah. No, it’s super helpful. Thank you. And then, Daniel, maybe a follow-up for you. I mean, obviously, margin progression has been a bright spot during this period of slower growth. You gave us a really wide range for Q4, wider than you normally do. Just talk about what you’re contemplating in that. What kind of gets you to the high end of the guidance? What gets you to the low end of the guidance? How are you thinking about plan investments for Q4? Any color there would be helpful.

Yeah. Let me first just address the guidance question really quickly, and then let me just talk about kind of progress in general. From a guidance range perspective on the revenue side, we’ve got a range of about $5 million. A lot of that for me really lands based upon where things come out with the consumer and where is the holiday shopping season and where does that land. I think we’re just giving ourselves a little bit of room there to see how that can shake out. Just based on the fact that there’s a lot of things we see that are really resilient and good on the macroeconomic side of things, but there’s also just some signals that just make us be a little bit cautious in that.

We were not intending to signal some sort of bigger risk level than what we’ve seen in previous holiday periods. Some of that’s just conservatism. What I’d say, just to focus on what I liked so far and what we’ve seen in the year and what we’ve seen, particularly on the quarter. I mean, we’ve posted stable revenue growth. We’ve got new products launching with more in pipeline that we think can drive stronger growth in 2026. That’s really the focus. The pace of new launches, what we’ve already shown, whether it’s Feedonomics Surface or a whole host of other things, I’m really encouraged by. We have more new products coming out in the AI space, particularly in Feedonomics. I can’t even keep up with how many of them there are, actually, which is a big shout-out to our product team, which I appreciate.

We delivered revenue in line with expectations. Like you said, we had really meaningful improvement to profit and cash flow. I mean, our profit margins were up 413 basis points versus a year ago. Operating cash nearly doubled versus a year ago. We’ve eliminated nearly 90% of our net debt in the last 18 months without reaching our growth potential to get there, which I’m really proud of. We’re still seeing good improvements in average revenue per account with 7% last quarter. I’d also call out, though, that’s broad-based across all customer sizes. We’re actually seeing, in some cases, even better ARPA growth with some of our smaller customers that aren’t buying enterprise plans, which gives Travis and I a lot of bullishness going into planning for next year and thinking about.

What’s the upside we see in this business, even with some of our small and medium-sized customers, which is. I think really encouraging for next year. We’re also, last thing I just call out is we’re still seeing really good progress on bookings quality. Deferred revenue is up 28% versus a year ago. I expect RPO to go up meaningfully in our Q4 results as well now that we have a new agreement signed with PayPal and some other agreements as well. By and large, I mean, like you said, in terms of quality of bookings and quality of revenue, I feel really good about it.

Going into next year, though, we think that we can do a lot better, not just in growth, but really delivering value to shareholders next year, looking at what we’re doing in profit and cash flow and what we think we can do with that. We’re not at all satisfied with what we’ve been able to deliver so far this year, and we are kind of laser-focused on how we can deliver better shareholder returns in those areas next year.

Yeah. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you, guys. Appreciate the call.

Conference Operator: The next question comes from Maddie Scrage with Piper Sandler. Please go ahead.

Hey, guys, and thanks for taking my question. My first one is just maybe could you talk about which of your new product rollouts you’re most excited for in 2026? I am also curious, are there any early learnings from Feedonomics Surface, and is the intention to always keep this only for BigCommerce customers or maybe open it up later? Thanks.

Daniel Lintz, Chief Financial Officer, Commerce: Hey, Maddie. Thanks for the question. Oh, gosh, to pick a favorite, I’m going to have folks on the product side. Someone’s going to be mad here. Honestly, Feedonomics Surface coming out. Probably. I will say two. Feedonomics Surface, which we just released to GA, it’s the most downloaded app in that app store for us. There’s only two channels today. We’re obviously looking to expand that substantially. Really excited about that. We’ve not had a lot of product-led growth here. Quite frankly, it was one of the big things that I wanted to change when I first came in, kind of started with leadership, went into go-to-market, evolved into obviously the rebrand, and the last is really product. We’ve had a high reliance on growth based on landing new accounts. When I got here, it’s just not a sustainable model.

We need to be able to sell more into the existing install base. Obviously, Service is the first of many in doing that. Really, really excited about that. To the second part of that question, yes, the plan is that. Feedo, it already runs agnostically today. You saw us in prepared remarks talk about the partnership with Shopify. We’ve been supporting that for a long time. We have many, many Feedonomics clients that use Shopify as a commerce platform, which is great for them. They use Feedonomics for all of the enrichment and syndication across ads and marketplaces and presumably at some point into LLMs, depending on the brand and the merchant. Really excited about that as well. On the Makeswift side, we talked about this in prepared remarks as well. When we bought Makeswift, it was put into play by way of Catalyst.

Very high-end, headless architecture. It was really targeted to some of our most sophisticated merchants that were net new, was limited to net new. Obviously, putting that out on Stencil next year is going to be a massive move and upgrade similar to Feedonomics Surface. Really excited to do that. We’re also exploring Makeswift on other surfaces as well as a visual editor. Very much taking an agnostic approach there as well, which we feel from a distribution perspective could be very enriching to shareholders.

One thing, this is Daniel, let me just add on that. Just to be really clear. We have already through Feedonomics given customers access to hundreds of channels. It is not rocket science for us to extend those channels into Surface, but do it at a price point that makes it much more sellable for not only our install base, but to your point, we definitely think there is an opportunity in the future to extend Feedonomics Surface onto other platforms. I think we have been very deliberate, and I think Travis is being very deliberate in his language to reflect the fact that Commerce is a platform-agnostic company.

We have a platform product that works for the part of the market that we’re targeting, but we also partner with a lot of the other platforms that we compete with, with BigCommerce, and we think Feedonomics Surface in the future could potentially be something that could be great for other platforms to use with their customers as well.

Thanks, guys.

You bet.

Conference Operator: As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star then one to join the question queue. The next question comes from Scott Berg with Needham. Please go ahead.

Hi everyone. Thanks for taking my questions here. Daniel, I just wanted to follow up on a comment you made a moment ago around your expectation that I think you said RPO is going to be up in Q4. With regard to the PayPal partnership, can you maybe give a little bit more color upon that? At least I view the opportunities you have there are going to be more transactional than something that would be maybe hitting RPO.

Daniel Lintz, Chief Financial Officer, Commerce: Yeah, that’s a good question, Scott. What I mean by that is there’s a lot of elements within our agreements with different technology partners, some of which are purely volume-based, where you get a certain amount of take rate based on volume. Those elements, to your point, don’t typically hit RPO, but there’s a whole lot of other economic arrangements within those agreements, whether it’s the equivalent of slotting fees or development fees and otherwise, that does end up hitting RPO. Part of why we’ve seen flat-ish more looking RPO over the course of the last few quarters is because we’ve been approaching the end of the agreement with PayPal and needed to get to renewal. That’s where we will see that effect reflecting in the Q4 numbers.

Understood. Helpful. Then following on kind of the PayPal theme here, is the Commerce for Payments that you, I know, are going to release early next year, as you’re farther down that road right now and starting to think about 2026. I know you’re certainly not guiding for anything financially in 2026, but how should we think about that impacting the P&L? Is it really just upside opportunity within the PSR revenue line item, or is there maybe another impact there that I haven’t considered yet?

Yeah. I’ll address the question on the P&L side really quickly and then turn it over to Travis to talk about kind of what the long-term vision is for what this looks like. We talked at our investor day about the fact that we are at this time not kind of going kind of as a full-in payments process, or we’re going to be taking on pricing, getting incremental spread from that, but we’re still going to be recognizing this net on P&L. I don’t anticipate anytime soon we’re going to end up with a P&L that looks like fintech. We think this is going to be high-margin revenue because of the fact that we’re not going to be recognizing full interchange in cost of revenue.

Yeah, Scott, I’ll just dogpile on that for a second. I think directly and indirectly signaling, I feel very differently than previous leadership about this. This is kind of the first step in monetizing this capability, and I would expect us to go deeper here into 2026. We’ll probably have a little bit more to share about that in next quarter’s call as we set kind of guidance for 2026. Yeah, hopefully this is a shot over the bow that we’re open to this. We think it’s an interesting opportunity to bring value not only to shareholders, but to our merchants. To the extent we can continue to do that and accelerate it, we’ll lean in pretty aggressively. Understood. Thank you so much.

Conference Operator: The next question comes from Josh Bear with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Awesome. You have Katie Kueser on for Josh Bear. Appreciate the question. Interesting to hear about kind of the unbundling of the Feedonomics Order Orchestration and being kind of available à la carte for merchants. Maybe just a pricing and packaging question. I mean, first, how do you expect kind of the unbundling dynamic to drive just better adoption of the product? Then just related, any broader updates on pricing and packaging strategies? Where are you leaning into kind of simplification and bundling relative to other areas of the platform that could be run kind of more à la carte like this? Thanks so much.

You bet. That’s a great question. On the order orchestration piece, I’ve kind of alluded to this a few times in previous calls that with Agentic in particular. Obviously, it’s front and center in discovery right now that that’s going to evolve into obviously shopping and will introduce a fair amount of complexity around order orchestration in particular, which Feedonomics was already doing behind the scenes. We’ve not touted it as a standalone SKU or as a product. It just kind of organically travels with a lot of these larger merchants as it relates to syncing inventory and pricing and availability across all these different channels as they’re selling across different services and channels. That’s obviously extending in. To what we’ve talked about and offering it à la carte. I think there’s a lot of investment going into that product and we’ll evolve it.

Appropriately in market for availability just as things get more complicated as merchants are selling across different services. We view this as very much a cost-savings element as well. Maintaining obviously positive customer experiences by syncing all of this data is obviously pertinent in that experience as folks are selling across different channels, making sure they’re not overselling in certain capacities. We will continue to roll out elements of this to the point we made earlier. Sometimes it’ll be à la carte. Sometimes it’ll be properly bundled. I’ll let Daniel allude to some of the bundling and packaging strategy we’ve got coming up. Anytime we see an opportunity as the market evolves to bring value and monetize or make it easier for a merchant, certainly we’re going to take an opportunity to go do that.

This is kind of the first of many in the evolution of that product as it maps to what the demand and changes in market.

Daniel Lintz, Chief Financial Officer, Commerce: What I would add on top of that. Look, we’re always pretty transparent. We try to be really transparent about what we think has gone well and what we think needs to improve. If you look at where we are as a business, I think it reflects. The fact that we are and will always be an open company in the way that we think about things. We want to give customers freedom of choice. We want them to be able to pick the solutions that are right for them. We also want to create products that make it easy and seamless for customers to use the products. It’s just easy to use. What that creates is an opportunity for us to actually improve the business model by creating more opportunities for cross-sell, bundling, or unbundling, to your point, depending upon how we think about the product.

The business historically has not focused enough on having a typical SaaS product-led growth self-serve upgrade motion. It is reflected in the net revenue retention results that I spoke about earlier. This is why it has been a huge area of focus for our entire leadership team to do this. If you look at Feedonomics Surface or BC Payments as two examples of that, we have had Feedonomics as an up-market product for a very long time, but it is at a price point that made it difficult to cross-sell into our mid-market customers. We have tens of thousands of them on the platform, right? By launching Feedonomics Surface, it is a free product to start with, but we are going to be introducing additional channels that will have either paid channels or paid features.

As customers adopt and grow and use the product, they are going to grow and expand what they’re spending with us as a company. There are a lot of ways that we’re looking across the business model to say, how can we augment the existing product offering through bundling and partnerships and picking a couple of partners that are best in their area and building their solution into ours so that it looks almost native? That’s the bundling strategy. There’s also another version of that where you can take the products that we have, like Feedonomics, and say, look, we’re going to put this at a price point that our core customers can buy so we can expand adoption and usage. We are also, again, in our ethos, open, and we are agnostic. How can we then extend that to Shopify customers?

How can we extend it to WooCommerce customers and Wix customers? It is just a philosophically different way of approaching things that shores up the business model and we think creates a lot of upside to growth and efficient growth next year. When Travis went through his list of areas of focus, and the last one he mentioned was investments in product, we are not talking about new features and functions and things that we launch. What we are focusing on here are things that we think can be transformative to the economics of the business model and ultimately make this a lot more profitable for shareholders in the long run.

Yep. Helpful. Thank you both.

Conference Operator: The next question comes from Brian Peterson with Raymond James. Please go ahead. Brian, your line is open. You may now ask your question.

Oh, sorry, guys. I’m bamboozled by the mute button again. Hey, just one from me. Just as we’re thinking about the overall demand environment and the pipeline of opportunities, would you say that’s changed overall in 2025? As some of the larger merchants are potentially thinking about AI initiatives, has that accelerated their investment in innovation, or maybe that’s taken a step back in terms of them evaluating alternatives? Would love to get some color there. Thanks, guys.

Yeah, I think we both alluded to it earlier. The demand for B2B has been consistent and solid. I think that was expected kind of coming into the year, and it’s something that we’ve seen since I’ve been here to be the norm. On the B2C side, I think the behavioral change really over the last six or so months as Agentic has become front and center. Obviously, that sucked a lot of the air out of the room just given. Organic traffic dropping for a lot of these brand manufacturers and retailers, which has probably softened their demand for wanting to replatform. I’m not saying we’re not winning deals out there. There’s certainly deals out there to be won, but I would say especially the larger ones, Agentic has shifted their focus. I think you’re seeing a blending of marketing and commerce organizationally.

It’s starting to catalyze a lot of transformation. We’ve been very deliberate in our partnerships, particularly around Accenture and how astute they are around digital transformation. They’re obviously front and center of this as well with a lot of shared clients. What you’re seeing is a lot of energy and effort going towards optimizing one’s data strategy within the organizations and how the organization needs to ultimately support that. Where again, getting ready, particularly around obviously discovery right now is front and center. As this evolves into shopping, what does that look like from a brand manufacturer or retailer perspective? How do I protect that experience? How do I make sure that I’m serving up relevant contextual content and experience and product availability through those conversations? How do I protect the monetization and the brand experience? How do I protect my AOV?

How do I ingest loyalty and think about security and everything else? Obviously, we’re front and center in a lot of those conversations across all the different services. People are still figuring out some of those commercial models as well on the answer engine side. That’s where you’re seeing a lot of the energy and the effort. I can’t speak tangibly to what the monetary investment is at the merchant level. I can just tell you from an effort and an importance and an angst perspective, this is absolutely front and center in taking most of the air out of the room versus a replatform. I think folks know that replatforming is not going to solve this challenge. If you solve this challenge, it may do other things, but I think that’s what’s front and center right now, if that’s helpful. Understood. Thanks, Travis.

Daniel Lintz, Chief Financial Officer, Commerce: You bet.

Conference Operator: This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Travis Hess, CEO, for any closing remarks.

Thanks to everyone for joining today. Looking forward to our Q4 call where we’ll share much more about 2026 and kind of the evolution of what we alluded to today around partnerships, advancement, momentum, and lots of things we’re excited for going into next year. Thank you all.

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