Bold Commerce vs. commercetools vs. Emporix

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

The Emporix platform is a modern, cloud-native solution that offers high availability and scalability needed by commerce systems of any scale. Besides the rich functionality offered out of the box, the company is able to be agile and help their customers to gain an advantage over the competitors by delivering new capabilities in reaction to market signs.

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

• Cloud-native architecture.
• Documentation.
• Self-service capabilities.

• 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

• Number of out-of-the-box integrations.

• 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

• Emporix is a great booster for companies entering the e-commerce business.