CommerceV3 vs. Kentico Xperience

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CommerceV3
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
CommerceV3 is an all-in-one eCommerce platform that will both build and host store platforms.N/A
Kentico Xperience
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Kentico is a web content management system for building websites, online stores, intranets, and Web 2.0 community sites. Kentico CMS uses ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server for development via its Portal Engine, using Visual Studio, or through Microsoft MVC.
$9,999
Subscription license
Pricing
CommerceV3Kentico Xperience
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Kentico Xperience Business
$9,999 / year
Subscription license
Kentico Xperience Business
$14,999
Perpetual license
Kentico Xperience Enterprise
$17,999 / year
Subscription license
Kentico Xperience Enterprise
$29,999
Perpetual license
Kentico Xperience Corporate
Upon request
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CommerceV3Kentico Xperience
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup Fee$1,995 per storeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CommerceV3Kentico Xperience
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
CommerceV3Kentico Xperience
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
CommerceV3
8.1
1 Ratings
5% above category average
Kentico Xperience
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Ratings
Product catalog & listings9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Product management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk product upload8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Branding6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile storefront7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Product variations9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual customization9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
CommerceV3
7.7
1 Ratings
2% above category average
Kentico Xperience
-
Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Checkout user experience7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
CommerceV3
9.1
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Kentico Xperience
-
Ratings
eCommerce security9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
CommerceV3
8.6
1 Ratings
14% above category average
Kentico Xperience
-
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Promotions & discounts9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
CommerceV3
8.6
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Kentico Xperience
-
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Order processing8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory management8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Shipping9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom functionality9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
CommerceV3
-
Ratings
Kentico Xperience
7.1
24 Ratings
12% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.124 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
CommerceV3
-
Ratings
Kentico Xperience
7.5
21 Ratings
7% below category average
API00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings7.018 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
CommerceV3
-
Ratings
Kentico Xperience
7.0
25 Ratings
8% below category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings7.125 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings7.225 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.125 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings5.812 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.023 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings6.224 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.024 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
CommerceV3
-
Ratings
Kentico Xperience
6.9
25 Ratings
3% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings6.324 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.224 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings5.124 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.924 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings7.923 Ratings
Best Alternatives
CommerceV3Kentico Xperience
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Ecwid by Lightspeed
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Progress Sitefinity
Progress Sitefinity
Score 7.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
CommerceV3Kentico Xperience
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(22 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CommerceV3Kentico Xperience
Likelihood to Recommend
CommerceV3
I believe CommerceV3 (CV3) is best suited for small to mid-level catalog companies. You would want to make sure to integrate CV3 with your back end system or you'll be doing a lot of manual entries or manipulating data for table uploads. You can easily manage the templates in CV3 with a basic knowledge of HTML and work up from there
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Kentico software
Kentico is a robust and flexible CMS platform that is great for managing multiple websites and multiple environments (dev, stage, and production for instance). It makes content management very easy and makes it easy to keep the environments synced with the same content. However, the Kentico CMS does require a bit more technical understanding to get it set up properly and requires a bit more effort and support than, say, free open-source options.
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Pros
CommerceV3
  • CV3 provides us a plethora of marketing tools to customize offers and campaigns to our customers. I've used BigCommerce and Shopify and neither comes close to the capability of fine tuning sales, offers, and discounts by product, category, customer and more.
  • The purpose of partnering with any e-commerce platform is to provide a secure site and stable checkout process for our customers. CV3 has been amazing at keeping our site up and running through peak traffic and attempted hacks. The checkout process has been rock solid and also integrates seamlessly with PayPal. I've used Amazon Payments in the past without incident, but decided to end that option due to Amazon's policies.
  • CV3's architecture on the back-end is designed to be plain and simple which provides an easy-to-use interface to streamline our work. The template driven structure to manage the front-end will become a favorite for most programmers in no time at all. In fact, I'm not a programmer, but do customization and design changes almost on a daily basis with ease. Any changes made to a template may be viewed on a staging server before pushing live. Templates, as well as other data may be downloaded any time for backups. Exports and imports of product data is simple and powerful allowing me to change massive amounts of data easily.
  • Customer support is always a contentious issue with most providers, however, CV3 has by far been the best I've encountered in over 30+ years of experience with software vendors. They are very responsive and escalate the issue to the proper person without having the redundancy you experience with so many other companies. They understand the issue the first time, and tell you the truth.
  • Any e-commerce business is about shipping. CV3 has the most powerful tools to control shipping. It will challenge the most creative minds on how to best merchandise products based on weight, dollar amount, global geographical location, dimensions, category, exception rules, by carrier, all the way down to the sku level which can have it's own set of rules. It gets complicated, but it works great and ties in with the promotional features as well.
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Kentico software
  • I love the intuitive top and left navigation within the content management platform. I can easily find what section, sub-section, and page I'm looking to edit
  • For creating content, the WYSIWYG editor is so intuitive; it feels like you're working on an MS Word doc!
  • The tab for adding metadata in simple fields takes away the headache of having to hunt and peck through code to add H1 tag, page description etc.
  • The image library is easy to edit and manage
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Cons
CommerceV3
  • An area I'd like to see enhanced is the sku level pricing calendar. You can set specials prices to start and stop at certain dates and times, but it's fixed to certain years. You can't have your chosen items go to seasonal pricing every year at the same time, you have to change the years each year.
  • There are multiple product setups: basic, parent with children, and sub-products. Each type exports on the same datasheet all intermingled and this can be tedious isolating the different types for editing and re-import.
  • Vendor and Brand are data points on each item, but they are not controlled by a table. We end up with the same vendor or brand misspelled multiple times.
  • There is no FTP capability (PCI issue?) and no blog site with the parent domain. These have to be handled using a separate sub-domain.
  • The shipping calculator for customers should be available anywhere there is a shipping option presented during checkout.
  • Faster live times. Currently, it takes about 5 to 10 minutes to see template/product changes pushed to the live cdn.
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Kentico software
  • Kentico needs to invest in more enterprise class environment management utilities -- example: global CDN support via the CMS is sorely lacking. There are work-arounds, but it should be more elegant.
  • The Kentico staging module could be improved to support the concept of bundled releases. Current staging module functionality is good, but could be improved.
  • Kentico ecommerce support is a touch immature. While content management is superb, Kentico lags in this area when compared to many open source ecommerce engines.
  • Kentico is lacking MVC support. 99% of the time this isn't an issue for the end-user or business user, but can be a hurdle for technology teams depending on the team's makeup.
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Likelihood to Renew
CommerceV3
No answers on this topic
Kentico software
We are locked into Kentico for the long haul. It provides us with an easy and flexible solution for a very non technical company to create a site and have the features they want, especially with the inclusion of EMS into our license. Now we have a true platform to build and grow our solutions.
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Usability
CommerceV3
No answers on this topic
Kentico software
It seriously is one of the best interfaces I have ever used. I also love the fact that I can use UI personalization to secure any functionality by user or role that I don't want that role to have access to. The best part is the customization of the UI, I can add in any button, tab, or menu item I want through it, no code required.
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Support Rating
CommerceV3
No answers on this topic
Kentico software
Their support staff is friendly, knowledgeable, and will work with you until your issue is fixed. This could take a few phone calls back and forth, but they are very diligent in helping you.
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Implementation Rating
CommerceV3
No answers on this topic
Kentico software
The system provides many opportunities to integrate and enhance the platform and makes it easy to do so.
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Alternatives Considered
CommerceV3
In my view, CV3 meets our needs better by allowing us a much easier way to manage the front end the way the templates are structured. BigCommerce recommended using an FTP tool to download, modify, then upload. Shopify has some very sophisticated templates, which, in my mind, required a senior level programmer or lots of outsourcing for even minor changes. Neither of the other systems come close to CV3's marketing capabilities through their promotional tool without any add-ons. Shopify, for example, is stripped down and if you want a certain feature you have to find one of their approved partners, sign-up, integrate the feature and hope it works. To purchase all the features we're currently using in CV3 you'd have quite a list (and expense) of partners. Examples would be enhanced shipping capabilities or the ability to customize a product purchase. CV3 has features specifically geared for a catalog company, like request forms and capturing key codes. Plus, built-in rewards program, wishlist, gift certificates, bulk email, and data feeds for Google Shopper, Channel Advisor and SingleFeed.
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Kentico software
I've used Sitecore, Ektron, Joomla!, WordPress, and SharePoint (if you want to count that as a competitor for CMS). Kentico 8 blows them all out of the water. Nothing is more intuitive in the way that content is created, the way the site is setup, and how efficient rollouts can be with Content Staging.
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Return on Investment
CommerceV3
  • One positive impact has been the use of product reviews. This feature has helped us weed out bad products and promote good ones while allowing customers to share their experience.
  • It's a fixed fee user agreement which favors increasing sales.
  • The stability of the checkout process has helped conversions and lowered support.
  • Having integrated inventory with our back end has helped meet customer expectations.
  • The promotional capabilities of CV3 has allowed us to provide new and different offers keeping customers engaged.
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Kentico software
  • Kentico has enabled faster speed to market for SMEs. They are empowered to enter content them selves while still having that content go through editorial review to ensure tone of voice and brand are maintained.
  • Deploying Kentico has freed up web developer resources from manual content entry enabling them to build more useful solutions to support the business efforts
  • Tapping into the Kentico event pipelne allows us to trigger external system events when product content is published.
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ScreenShots

Kentico Xperience Screenshots

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