commercetools vs. SAP Commerce Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
commercetools
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
commercetools is an omnichannel eCommerce platform with additional functionality like point-of-sale through cloud deployment.N/A
SAP Commerce Cloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
SAP Commerce Cloud (formerly Hybris) is designed to help businesses sell more goods, services, and digital content through every touchpoint, channel, and device through their multichannel ecommerce and order management solution, available as a SaaS or on-premise.N/A
Pricing
commercetoolsSAP Commerce Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
commercetoolsSAP Commerce Cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
commercetoolsSAP Commerce Cloud
Considered Both Products
commercetools
Chose commercetools
Commercetools is a headless commerce platform. It provides the front end functionality flexibility that competitors lack. The set of APIs can link with multiple solutions including voice enabled client solutions. The functionalities on the platform are ever expanding and …
SAP Commerce Cloud
Chose SAP Commerce Cloud
Overall SAP Ecosystem compatibility, integrated product roadmap, frequent releases, OOB B2B features, built on latest technologies, providing a monitoring solution, Order management capabilities, business tools, number of companies that are already onboarded, platform is …
Chose SAP Commerce Cloud
It is the best suited platform for large business to business organizations looking to lean into digital commerce and scale their organizations for the long term. Other platforms are better suited for early stage or mid market businesses in retail and other verticals.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
commercetoolsSAP Commerce Cloud
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
9.1
2 Ratings
15% above category average
SAP Commerce Cloud
7.9
79 Ratings
1% above category average
Product catalog & listings10.02 Ratings8.375 Ratings
Product management9.02 Ratings8.375 Ratings
Bulk product upload10.02 Ratings8.172 Ratings
Branding8.02 Ratings8.469 Ratings
Mobile storefront8.01 Ratings7.669 Ratings
Product variations10.02 Ratings7.769 Ratings
Website integration9.02 Ratings7.874 Ratings
Visual customization9.02 Ratings7.870 Ratings
CMS00 Ratings6.971 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
8.0
2 Ratings
4% above category average
SAP Commerce Cloud
8.0
71 Ratings
4% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery6.01 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Checkout user experience10.02 Ratings7.970 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
10.0
2 Ratings
19% above category average
SAP Commerce Cloud
6.6
62 Ratings
23% below category average
eCommerce security10.02 Ratings6.662 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
8.0
2 Ratings
4% above category average
SAP Commerce Cloud
6.9
71 Ratings
11% below category average
Promotions & discounts8.02 Ratings6.970 Ratings
Personalized recommendations8.02 Ratings7.363 Ratings
SEO8.02 Ratings6.661 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
10.0
2 Ratings
22% above category average
SAP Commerce Cloud
8.1
72 Ratings
1% above category average
Multi-site management10.02 Ratings8.067 Ratings
Order processing10.02 Ratings8.369 Ratings
Inventory management10.02 Ratings8.364 Ratings
Shipping10.02 Ratings8.564 Ratings
Custom functionality10.02 Ratings7.568 Ratings
Best Alternatives
commercetoolsSAP Commerce Cloud
Small Businesses
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus
Score 9.1 out of 10
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus
Score 9.1 out of 10
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
commercetoolsSAP Commerce Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(81 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(14 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(48 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(48 ratings)
User Testimonials
commercetoolsSAP Commerce Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
commercetools
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.
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SAP
SAP Commerce Cloud is well-suited for large enterprises requiring robust personalization, seamless multi-channel integration, and the ability to handle high-volume transactions, especially during peak periods like Black Friday. Its scalability and advanced features make it ideal for businesses needing to manage complex product catalogs and global operations.Enough development capacities are needed to have a best in class shop
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Pros
commercetools
  • Very good documentation
  • Stabile and scalable Microservice-Architecture
  • Cloud Native Platform
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SAP
  • Centralized Data Management: SAP Commerce Cloud excels in centralizing data from various operational sectors, which is pivotal in the chemicals industry. This feature allows for better oversight and management of complex supply chains, regulatory compliance, and customer interactions. Having a single source of truth for crucial business data minimizes discrepancies and promotes informed decision-making.
  • Real-Time Data Processing: The real-time data processing capability of SAP Commerce Cloud is invaluable. It aids in timely adherence to regulatory changes and helps in meeting customer demands promptly. In a sector where regulations and market conditions are ever-evolving, real-time data processing is fundamental for maintaining compliance and ensuring customer satisfaction.
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Cons
commercetools
  • 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.
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SAP
  • It's a little pricey; further cost reductions will expand product selection; also, trained operators are required.
  • HAC occasionally functions extremely slowly and does not provide any problem messages; it simply gets stuck. Logging into the Backoffice for testing purposes causes a lot of trouble; it does not enable us to log in in one attempt, and the page refreshes every time we enter in the credentials.
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Likelihood to Renew
commercetools
No answers on this topic
SAP
I truly enjoy leading Hybris development projects and participating in new feature development for the platform. I see huge potential for growth and hope to be instrumental in bringing Hybris to the bleeding edge of presentation layer technology.
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Usability
commercetools
No answers on this topic
SAP
More true headless and a more rationale pricing. Since moving from the Hzbris Monolyth towards SAP Commerce Cloud a lot of progress has been made, but dissecting the monolyth into composable components where you just pay for what you use is still a longer journey and here pricing should be more realistic. Things become so expensive once they have the SAP stamp on them (example the SAP CIAM)
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Support Rating
commercetools
No answers on this topic
SAP
We have the right to open a ticket or submit request to SAP support teams for all the problems we have experienced. They also provide solutions for critical issues within 48 hours. In addition, the product has support documents such as a user guide and admin guide. In addition, there is a strong community of users. In this way, we can access solution of some specific problems that we have fallen on from there.
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Implementation Rating
commercetools
No answers on this topic
SAP
Scalability of the product was good Seamless integrations were helped in reducing the implementation for the development team to integrate with the SAP ERP Product framework helped customer to customize and adapt the new features which were developed basis business processes and ease of customer experience. Deployment and creation of the build becomes very easy with the CCv2 setup.
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Alternatives Considered
commercetools
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SAP
SAP Cloud is much better than GoDaddy. it was a smooth transition and every aspect of the program is easier. My scalability increased greatly from GoDaddy to SAp Commerce Cloud and sales are now tracked easier and inventory is at the touch of a button, making sales much easier than previous software.
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Scalability
commercetools
No answers on this topic
SAP
The business users/admins were able to quickly segment products by brand, allowing for unique branding and header-less page design. As new products are added to the SAP backend, all characteristics and pricing automatically migrate to Commerce Cloud. We also segment our user sign-on (domains) by brand and allow targeting displays.
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Return on Investment
commercetools
  • 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.
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SAP
  • It has a positive impact on my client's business and ROI is higher than expected. As orders count is increasing due to smooth and better experience.
  • My current client's customers have given very positive experience about new website built on SAP Commerce Cloud.
  • Due to SAP Commerce Cloud website rollout is very easy and due to it, my current client has introduced around 25 websites. As SAP Commerce Cloud logic needs to develop once and can be reused for multiple websites easily with minimal effort.
  • Branding is also very easy as promotions, events can be implemented on the website easily and with minimum time.
  • SAP Commerce has helped our client to integrate the Recommendation tool ISS which is easy to configure after this tool product sale is increased. The best thing was that integration was very easy and quick.
  • One option of Blue/Green deployment helping us to check the production release in advance on production environment. Prev we don't have this option and many times face P1 issue in prod which had ruined client reputation. But now this feature is helping lot
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ScreenShots

SAP Commerce Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of the Product Cockpit for managing catalogs, categories and product contentScreenshot of Order Management Capabilities including sourcing and allocation rulesScreenshot of commerce sites on two different mobile devicesScreenshot of a landing page from an e-commerce siteScreenshot of a web page with product categories and search results from an e-commerce siteScreenshot of headless commerce storefronts