commercetools vs. Umbraco CMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
commercetools
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
commercetools is an omnichannel eCommerce platform with additional functionality like point-of-sale through cloud deployment.N/A
Umbraco CMS
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Umbraco is an open-source .NET Core CMS with over 700,000 active installs worldwide and with more than 200,000 active community members. It was first released on February 16th, 2005, and is still to this day an open-source project backed by a commercial company. To ensure Umbraco is always running the latest technology, the company has aligned with Microsoft's .NET release schedule to always have the Umbraco CMS…
$0
Pricing
commercetoolsUmbraco CMS
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Umbraco Free
$0
Umbraco Cloud Starter
$45
per month
Umbraco Heartcore Mini
$49
per month
Umbraco Heartcore Starter
$239
per month
Umbraco Cloud Standard
$283
per month
Umbraco Cloud Professional
$758
per month
Umbraco Heartcore Professional
$999
per month
Umbraco Professional
$12,000
per year
Umbraco Enterprise
Flexible pricing
per year
Umbraco Cloud Enterprise
Flexible pricing
per month
Umbraco Heartcore Enterprise
Flexible pricing
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
commercetoolsUmbraco CMS
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe Umbraco CMS and all of its core features are the same across all plans. The paid on-premise plans include support, onboarding, licenses to add-on products (Umbraco Forms) as well as a discount on developer training courses. Umbraco Cloud is the CMS hosted on Azure Cloud servers with automated upgrades, unlimited hosting, and smooth deployments. All features can be found on Umbraco.com. Umbraco Heartcore is the managed Headless SaaS version of Umbraco.
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Community Pulse
commercetoolsUmbraco CMS
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
commercetoolsUmbraco CMS
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
9.1
2 Ratings
17% above category average
Umbraco CMS
-
Ratings
Product catalog & listings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Product management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk product upload10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Branding8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile storefront8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Product variations10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Website integration9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual customization9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
8.0
2 Ratings
6% above category average
Umbraco CMS
-
Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Checkout user experience10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
10.0
2 Ratings
18% above category average
Umbraco CMS
-
Ratings
eCommerce security10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
8.0
2 Ratings
7% above category average
Umbraco CMS
-
Ratings
Promotions & discounts8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Personalized recommendations8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
10.0
2 Ratings
25% above category average
Umbraco CMS
-
Ratings
Multi-site management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Order processing10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Shipping10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom functionality10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
-
Ratings
Umbraco CMS
1.0
11 Ratings
156% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
-
Ratings
Umbraco CMS
5.3
10 Ratings
37% below category average
API00 Ratings5.59 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings5.19 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
-
Ratings
Umbraco CMS
1.6
11 Ratings
130% below category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings1.010 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings1.010 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings5.99 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
commercetools
-
Ratings
Umbraco CMS
3.6
11 Ratings
68% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings1.010 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings4.98 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings5.210 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings6.010 Ratings
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User Ratings
commercetoolsUmbraco CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
1.0
(11 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
commercetoolsUmbraco CMS
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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Umbraco
Umbraco CMS is the perfect tool for a company that is looking to keep their website updated. The simple to use tools and templates means updating and creating new pages is easy. The WYSIWYG editor is a nice feature, however, for accessibility, there should be some more guidance on what is suitable to be used on the CMS.
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Pros
commercetools
  • Very good documentation
  • Stabile and scalable Microservice-Architecture
  • Cloud Native Platform
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Umbraco
  • Quick to learn. For most if cases, developer needs to know Razor coding.
  • Doesn't require back-end programming.
  • Has build in users management (developers, content managers) and members management consoles (users of the site).
  • Clear admin tool (especially in version 7)
  • Fast.
  • Creating code from scratch, so it is easier to create clean code.
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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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Umbraco
  • Speed for older sites - Umbraco content can load slowly if you have thousands of pages of content. Of course, this would not be a problem for simpler websites
  • Complexity - since the product is free out-of-the-box, it will take technical expertise to get Umbraco setup properly
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Usability
commercetools
No answers on this topic
Umbraco
Many end users will be overwhelmed with the admin interface. Some common functions are buried in menus
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Reliability and Availability
commercetools
No answers on this topic
Umbraco
Occasionally, errors will appear in the admin that make it impossible to work without developer support.
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Performance
commercetools
No answers on this topic
Umbraco
Working in the admin panel (adding / reviewing / editing content) is very slow. The public facing site speed is dependent on what the pages are doing and how well the code was written (whether it is optimized for speed).
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Support Rating
commercetools
No answers on this topic
Umbraco
Support for Umbraco-owned paid plugins is nonexistent.
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Online Training
commercetools
No answers on this topic
Umbraco
Online training is often based on older versions of the platform. So, you'll have to fill in the gaps on your own.
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Implementation Rating
commercetools
No answers on this topic
Umbraco
Spend the time to wireframe the content structure prior to diving in. This helps speed the process of implementation and it serves as documentation for end users.
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Alternatives Considered
commercetools
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Umbraco
Umbraco's templating is far superior than WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, but it's update process is WAY behind those platforms. The release schedule of Umbraco is way to often and most releases are to fix something missed in the previous release and not an improvement or new feature of the CMS
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Scalability
commercetools
No answers on this topic
Umbraco
Without significant development, the product does not scale well.
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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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Umbraco
  • Has helped us to create more engaging pages that push people to complete the online forms
  • We have seen more people buy from us since we launched our new look website
  • We can easily update the content without waiting for the development team to make changes
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ScreenShots

Umbraco CMS Screenshots

Screenshot of Umbraco 8 backoffice UIScreenshot of Umbraco 8 side by side multilingual editingScreenshot of Umbraco 8 Content AppsScreenshot of Umbraco Cloud project overviewScreenshot of Umbraco Cloud environment overview