AspDotNetStorefront vs. commercetools

If you need a tool to manage a website, this is a good place to start. If you aren't ready for something of this caliber it might not be meant for your business. It's a stepping stone and you need to be ready to learn and it may require a bit more attention.

Incentivized

Commercetools is generally a very flexible, smart platform for eCommerce business. It's an API enabled, cloud solution that makes integration seamless and quick to deploy. It's also a modern platform that utilizes API query languages like GraphQl. It lacks some functionalities in pricing and geographic variations of product portfolio but the platform is constantly improving and new functionalities are added.

Incentivized

• Tons of reporting tools
• Easy to navigate
• Multiple user profiles

Incentivized

• Very good documentation
• Stabile and scalable Microservice-Architecture
• Cloud Native Platform

• Not everyone can navigate easily without training
• Some reports can be fairly large and take lots of time to download

Incentivized

• Pricing - Commercetools has pricing limitations with respect to customer/SKU combination. If an organization provides lots of custom/contract pricing for customers, Commercetools has difficulty mapping it in. They are working on this to make it more flexible.
• Geographic variations in product portfolio - Commercetools has central product master that doesn't provide product activation/enabling based on different geographies/elevation/sales office structures. Some creative mapping skills are needed to overcome this limitation.
• Data mapping limitations - Commercetools lacks in out of the box data mapping limitations to full fledged ERP platforms. Extensive data mapping workshops are necessary to fit the functionalities of an ERP platform from order, to delivery , to warehouse operations and billing.

Incentivized

More customization and ability to work with web designers make it an easy tool to manage projects and promote growth of your store front. It may not be as user friendly as others but it has more flexibility by far.

Incentivized

• Easy to use customer service tools
• Invaluable reporting abilities
• Tier users makes it easy to manage employees

Incentivized

• We were able to successfully launch the ecommerce platform in under 4 months of starting development work.
• Integrate the same APIs to different client facing solutions.
• The total cost of platform recovered in 8 months of deployment.

Incentivized