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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ecwid by Lightspeed

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AEcwid allows customers the ability to create an online store to any webpage or social media profile. Boasting hundreds of thousands of merchants in 175 countries as users, Ecwid aims to provide everything needed to reach customers wherever they are: in-person, through a website, Instagram, Facebook, Amazon, or Google Shopping. In addition, Ecwid’s point-of-sale integrations, email marketing integrations, and dedicated mobile app allow sellers to manage marketing merchandising, and sales - any…

    $5

    per month

    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Sitecore Experience Platform (Sitecore XP) is a digital experience platform used to build websites and create customer experiences online. The solution boasts fast content authoring, built-in personalization features, testing and other optimizations, as well as analytics and marketing features.N/A
    Pricing
    Ecwid by LightspeedSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $5
    per month
    Venture
    $30
    per month
    Business
    $55
    per month
    Unlimited
    $130
    per month
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Ecwid by LightspeedSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA 16% discount is offered for annual billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    Ecwid by LightspeedSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Ecwid
    No answer on this topic
    Sitecore
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    82%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    Ecwid by LightspeedSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    10.0
    13 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Product catalog & listings10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product management10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk product upload10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branding10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile storefront10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product variations10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website integration10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual customization10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    10.0
    12 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Abandoned cart recovery10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Checkout user experience10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    10.0
    12 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    eCommerce security10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    10.0
    11 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Promotions & discounts10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    10.0
    13 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Order processing10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory management10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Shipping10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom functionality10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.9
    37 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.938 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.8
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    API00 Ratings9.934 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings9.732 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.2
    37 Ratings
    26% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.237 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.436 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings9.537 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings9.735 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings8.322 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings9.736 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings9.735 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.4
    36 Ratings
    35% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings9.735 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings9.733 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings9.531 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.534 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.632 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    7.5
    16 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings7.716 Ratings
    Test reporting00 Ratings7.417 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis00 Ratings7.417 Ratings
    User Segmentation00 Ratings7.717 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Ecwid by Lightspeed and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    8.2
    19 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Campaign management00 Ratings8.820 Ratings
    Cloud enablement00 Ratings8.119 Ratings
    Content aggregation00 Ratings8.219 Ratings
    Content classification00 Ratings8.619 Ratings
    Multi-channel content personalization00 Ratings7.819 Ratings
    Customer data analytics00 Ratings7.418 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations00 Ratings7.319 Ratings
    Multi-website management00 Ratings8.918 Ratings
    Digital asset management00 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Editorial workflows and task management00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Ecwid by LightspeedSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.7
    (49 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ecwid by LightspeedSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ecwid
    Ecwid is absolutely perfect for any business that is looking to start out with online sales and mobile point-of-sale. Many times, business owners may have limited experience in setting up a website or point-of-sale. Having to spend on this expertise with a limited budget can be frustrating. Ecwid allows you to have great results even if you are a novice.
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    Sitecore
    Sitecore offers Content Hub with Product Content Management and Content Management Platform. The Digital Experience Platform and Content Hub can both host structured content and publish the finalized version to Experience Edge. Both platforms offer different ways to manage content. During a technical and business evaluation, the evaluation panel must understand the difference between a Content Modelling focused approach, or a layout management focused approach. Sitecore Digital Experience Platform is also best not to be used to host many files and images in the Media Library. That responsibility should be offloaded to a digital asset management company like Sitecore Content Hub DAM. The technology evaluation panel must also understand how to work with a Headless CMS, where the HEAD needs to be hosted, and the costs associated with the HEAD. Composable DXP is fantastic, but everyone must understand the various cost components. Marketers and the data team will need to go into the CDP and Personalize the platform with an excellent understanding of how a composable "installation" works. All the Martech vendors have similar challenges that data and development teams need to work through with a full experience. Any CDP/analytics platform will, at some stage, require further data enrichment from other sources. Understanding the Sitecore Search features and limitations is also essential.
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    Pros
    Ecwid
    • Clarity - there has been very little confusion and need to reach out to Customer Support for help
    • Consistency - no big, crazy updates or changes have been made to the format of Ecwid during my time using it, so I know when I log in to preform my business tasks I can always locate what I need and accomplish what is at hand easily
    • Simplicity - everything is so clear and straightforward. It's like e-commerce for dummies.
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    Sitecore
    • Comprehensive Solution: Sitecore offers a fully integrated suite of products that cover the full spectrum of DXP capabilities, including search, personalization experimentation and more, delivering a complete composable DXP solution for customers.
    • Beyond Headless: XM Cloud provides more than just headless capabilities, featuring in-built tools like authoring host, page editor, etc., enabling faster and more powerful implementations.
    • Focus on AI: Sitecore has now got an excellent AI offering called Stream; it looks promising; however, it would be too early to give feedback on the same.
    • Customization: Sitecore's backend is highly customizable, allowing for deep modifications through pipelines and patch configurations.
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    Cons
    Ecwid
    • Recurring billing - ability to bill subscription customers without having to go to my payment gateway
    • Robust order management - very limited in managing orders, therefore I had to subscribe to a different software
    • Expensive customization - if you want to customize anything, it is very expensive
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    Sitecore
    • Experience Editor is a little old fashioned and sometimes slow to use.
    • Bulk operations in the Content Editor
    • Sitecore serialization is should be part of the Content Editor to provide visual reference for items which are serialized and will be overwritten by future deployments similar to what Unicorn does so well
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ecwid
    The value given by Ecwid is unmatched. When combined with the ease of use of the product, it is a no-brainer to continue to use the product. The only thing that could cause us to switch is if some feature we needed which is not available which is unlikely based on the feature list we reviewed when making the decision to go with them.
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    Sitecore
    Sitecore has proven that it can deliver on its promise of a robust, reliable enterprise CMS solution with plenty of features. Also, they keep updating it with more and better features. Now that we are highly trained on it we have started on getting the most out of it and we plan to keep doing more of that in the future.
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    Usability
    Ecwid
    I gave a 9 instead of a 10 only because I haven't figured out a function or two. I believe it has less to do with Ecwid's overall usability and more to do with my own understanding and skill level, but regardless, it may also have something to do with the limits of Ecwid's functions.
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    Sitecore
    We use Sitecore extensively because it provides a single platform for managing content, personalization, and digital experiences across multiple web properties and customer journeys. At our scale, the biggest value is consistency, governance, and the ability for marketing teams to manage experiences without needing engineering support for every change. It also integrates well with the broader CRM/marketing stack, so it becomes quite embedded once deployed.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Ecwid
    Always available. Very reliable
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    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Ecwid
    Good overall performance both in desktop and mobile
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    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Ecwid
    I have always received the support I need in a timely manner. I enjoy receiving emails every week on trending business topics and new suggestions. They often serve as a reminder for me to include new e-commerce tools into our strategy. And I've always had great experiences with reaching out to the support team with specific questions.
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    Sitecore
    1. Customized software development & maintenance. 2. Technology Consulting - Consulting-based services for technology solutions data engineering or cloud solutions. 3. Used for tapping into multiple data sources such as CRM and marketing automation systems and, creating automated data extracts with a high-end visual representation of data. 4. Implemented for scheduling an existing report to automatically refresh and be delivered to specific users at a specific regular interval.
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    Online Training
    Ecwid
    No answers on this topic
    Sitecore
    Sitecore captures and remembers every single interaction your customers and prospects have in any part of the system, allowing you to build comprehensive, ever-learning profiles of each individual. From email marketing, to social media, to online shopping, Sitecore remembers where each interaction left off so you can automatically continue the conversation. Sitecore helps you manage your content for each and every experience your customers enjoy. Customize what content you want and the system will take care of how it's displayed.
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    Implementation Rating
    Ecwid
    Fast and simple implementation of Ecwid's solutions. Easy to learn and navigate
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    Sitecore
    Make sure you work with a partner that can help you take advantage of the entire platform. Specifically we see a lot of customers not taking advantage of Sitecore DMS and thus missing a huge opportunity. Sitecore is a platform that is meant to be constantly optimized and improved upon.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ecwid
    We sell a product that requires certain controls to sell and most of the companies we researched had specific policies preventing us from selling on their platform. We aren't selling anything dangerous, they are parts of ammunition (the shell casings) and not entire ammunition rounds. Most other vendors restrict the sales of firearms and ammunition, but even when just selling a part used to create ammunition, we were still restricted. I'm not really sure why they restrict sales of products like ours from different vendors. Ecwid had no such restrictions and were happy to confirm that for us.
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    Sitecore
    Really the only comparable product to Sitecore DXP is Adobe Experience Manager. Both are very well established and robust content management platforms. Products like Contentful and Contentstack are very lightweight and do not have as many built-in features like DXP, so it is not a fair comparison. For highly complex enterprise type engagements, Sitecore DXP and AEM are always brought to the table together for consideration.
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    Scalability
    Ecwid
    Good scalability. I use the second plan and there are 2 more plans that I could use if I needed other features or services
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    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Ecwid
    • We have not been able to measure the ROI as of yet, as we cannot get out of the gate with customization required.
    • It can be implemented quickly for basic online stores.
    • Once the system is configured, ROI will dramatically go up.
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    Sitecore
    • Since moving the site to Sitecore we have had an increase in conversion - that's the ultimate goal of all these things. It's likely to be partly tied in to the re-design that happened at the same time, but the way in which you can personalise and change things really helps give the best customer journey.
    • The negative impact we've seen is mainly due to expectations around how easily things can be shared between separate instances of Sitecore - if you haven't built stuff sharable it won't be sharable, but the business have been sold Sitecore (partly) on the basis that things would be easily sharable.
    • My developers don't all like working in Sitecore - it takes time to learn, takes a long time to build and run as well as requiring a few processes around it, like Unicorn Sync, etc. One of my devs has actually asked to not work on it again! So, a potential recruitment issue.
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    ScreenShots

    Ecwid by Lightspeed Screenshots

    Screenshot of Ecwid store looks perfect on any smartphone and automatically adapts to your customer’s screen size — laptops, tablets, smart TVs or smart watches.Screenshot of Manage your Ecwid store wherever you are from your mobile device.Screenshot of Mobile app for every store. Your customers can shop from their mobile devices with your own dedicated native app and utilize advanced features like Apple Pay.