Elastic Path vs. Joomla!

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elastic Path
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Elastic Path is an API-first composable commerce platform for B2B organizations with complex catalogs, multi-tier pricing, and distributor-specific workflows. Key capabilities include Product Experience Manager (PIM), Cart & Checkout, Promotions Builder, Subscriptions, Semantic AI Search, Composer (iPaaS), and Visual CMS.N/A
Joomla
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Joomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A
Pricing
Elastic PathJoomla!
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Elastic PathJoomla
Free Trial
YesNo
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
Elastic PathJoomla!
Features
Elastic PathJoomla!
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Path
7.6
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Joomla!
-
Ratings
Product catalog & listings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Product management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk product upload6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Branding7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile storefront7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Product variations8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Website integration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual customization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
CMS8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Path
7.0
1 Ratings
9% below category average
Joomla!
-
Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Checkout user experience7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Path
8.0
1 Ratings
4% below category average
Joomla!
-
Ratings
eCommerce security8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Path
9.7
1 Ratings
23% above category average
Joomla!
-
Ratings
Promotions & discounts9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Personalized recommendations10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Path
8.4
1 Ratings
5% above category average
Joomla!
-
Ratings
Multi-site management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Order processing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Shipping8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom functionality9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Path
-
Ratings
Joomla!
8.4
51 Ratings
2% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.451 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Path
-
Ratings
Joomla!
6.8
48 Ratings
13% below category average
API00 Ratings7.346 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.347 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Path
-
Ratings
Joomla!
7.7
54 Ratings
1% below category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.253 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.551 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings8.349 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings6.450 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.650 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.450 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.646 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Path
-
Ratings
Joomla!
7.6
52 Ratings
2% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.951 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.750 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings7.250 Ratings
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Elastic PathJoomla!
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus
Score 8.9 out of 10
RWS Tridion Sites
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Elastic PathJoomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
8.2
(75 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(14 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Elastic PathJoomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
Elastic Path
Elastic path is a cost-effectively product which bring the advanced capabilities to enable business to drive a better customer experience. The ecommerce solution is very clean and it is built heavily using open source tools.Elastic path ecommerce is definitely a strong competitor which would fit for any retailers / telco's .
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The Joomla Project
If your developers want to have some fun, Joomla offers the stability and friendliness to do custom coding. Certain marketing initiatives require us to get "cute" with the interface, and Joomla allows for that a bit easier than WordPress (and definitely easier than sites like Squarespace). The security of Joomla is also always a plus.
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Pros
Elastic Path
  • Easy for non-Java programmers to understand
  • Comes with a lot of built-in functionality
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The Joomla Project
  • Security. Its got many new features in the new Joomla! 4 which make the already good security even better. I like the ability to use my Yubi keys to log in with the new webauth standard, I don't think any other CMS has that built in
  • W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (with AA compliance)
  • Really good SEO that gets our sites to the top of the search engines again without the need for any extra things
  • Speed, it gets a really good score (100%) in the google lighthouse on our server, can't beat that
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Cons
Elastic Path
  • Product management tool should be assesible over web.
  • Versioning of catalog items would a nice feature to have.
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The Joomla Project
  • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
  • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
  • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
  • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
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Likelihood to Renew
Elastic Path
Team now has skill using Elastic Path
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The Joomla Project
I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
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Usability
Elastic Path
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The Joomla Project
Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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Performance
Elastic Path
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The Joomla Project
Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
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Support Rating
Elastic Path
No answers on this topic
The Joomla Project
Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
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Online Training
Elastic Path
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The Joomla Project
It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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Implementation Rating
Elastic Path
No answers on this topic
The Joomla Project
Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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Alternatives Considered
Elastic Path
As a system integrator here are my thoughts -- Elastic path is one of best ecommerce tools, which would fit any retailer/ telcos business needs. The software architecture is well thought through and it is built with open source tools, the Ecommerce application is easily extensible and it enables clients to get there E-commerce application in less time. We have evaluated other products like ATG ecommerce, WCS, Magento. Elastic path is definitely a briliant ecommerce product which I would recommend to any clients.
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The Joomla Project
We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
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Return on Investment
Elastic Path
  • The positive impact was quick development time
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The Joomla Project
  • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
  • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
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