Commerce Layer vs. Front-commerce

Commerce Layer is a great choice, if you want to build a tailored system. The flexible API allows to build all kinds of applications around commerce, but you also need to deep dive a bit into the structure. If you want to set up a simple store and sell a few SKUs, you're probably rather a Shopify customer, but if you want to build great customer experiences and tailer the software to your business, Commerce Layer is a very good choice.

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Front-commerce offers an excellent digital storefront, which is ideal for shops in specialist markets with fierce competition. In comparison to other alternatives, the e-commerce software is natively related to mobile devices as well as SEO. However, it is preferable to have technical abilities in order to primarily utilize it (react, js, etc.) and the cost is more than other options.

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• Flexibility
• True headless (based on MACH principles)
• Integrated sales/shipments solution
• Seamless integration (extensive API, webhooks, etc.)

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• Search Engine Optimized.
• Designed with mobile devices in mind.
• Support that is accurate and timely.

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• Specific POS features are on the roadmap (we're using now a market per store, which works but creates some issues with it)
• Payment flexibility (as we're using it fully as a POS solution)
• Flexibility in order editing after approval of order

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• Can be complex (need to have knowledge in react).
• More expensive than the competition.

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Commerce Layer is at the core of our operations

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The new apps are great, but in our case, we built so specific functionalities around it that we built our own admin tool. Based on the complexity (especially for after sales processes), no off the shelf tool would have been able to do this.

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We're in regular contact with Commerce Layer and regularly also discuss issues directly with the tech team

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Yes the support team was quite helpful in the initial part of implementation.

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The Commerce Layer data model is very flexible, which also creates a certain complexity. It's important to understand how the data model works and how relationships between them are built.

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Real headless solution, fully SaaS. In comparison to all other solutions, Commerce Layer has an integrated order management which is lean, but very flexible. With all other solutions, we would have needed a separate OMS which would have increased both the complexity and the cost of the solution.

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Front-commerce is really optimized for SEO and mobile devices, and since I implement it, the conversion rate is higher. They are the 2 reasons why we decided to implement it.

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• Reduction of support staff by 2/3 as we could implement a full self-service solution
• 1-2 days faster delivery of glasses to customers due to automated lens ordering (built into Commerce Layer)

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• Setup is simple.
• Although it is a small group, it has a lot of support.
• SEO rating at the top.

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