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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Digital Commerce

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Digital Commerce is an e-commerce platform that is designed to deliver omni-channel shopping experiences, including mobile, social, and in-store. In June 2019, IBM Digital Commerce was acquired by HCL Technologies.N/A

    Kajabi

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AKajabi is a web hosting platform for online learning or membership websites, featuring landing pages and support for email marketing, video hosting, and codeless web building tools.

    $89

    per month

    Squarespace

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASquarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    IBM Digital CommerceKajabiSquarespace
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Kickstarter
    $89
    per month
    Basic
    $149.00
    per month
    Growth
    $199.00
    per month
    Pro
    $399.00
    per month
    Basic
    $25
    per month
    Core
    $36
    per month
    Plus
    $56
    per month
    Advanced
    $139
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Digital CommerceKajabiSquarespace
    Free Trial
    NoYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details30% discount for annual pricing.28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    IBM Digital CommerceKajabiSquarespace
    Considered Multiple Products
    IBM
    No answer on this topic
    Kajabi
    Chose Kajabi
    Before using Kajabi, we hosted our programs and courses on Squarespace. Being a website platform Squarespace didn't provide the functionality or features we needed to create a student-friendly experience. While Squarespace gave us our start, Kajabi helped us grow and scale our …
    Incentivized
    Squarespace
    Chose Squarespace
    I would choose Squarespace over all the competition unless I wanted a website builder/host that had an online course portal. Squarespace has the easiest website builder. It's relatively cheap. It automatically updates. It is easy to integrate with third-party services such as …
    Incentivized
    Chose Squarespace
    Both of my fields are visual, so design is as important as functionality. Unbounce looks great, but it's not set up for the same full functionality. I've also been quite familiar with Squarespace and felt comfortable with them.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    89%
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    97%
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    Features
    IBM Digital CommerceKajabiSquarespace
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of IBM Digital Commerce and Kajabi and Squarespace
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Kajabi
    -
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    Squarespace
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    Product catalog & listings8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product management8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk product upload8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branding8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile storefront8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product variations8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website integration8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual customization8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    CMS4.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of IBM Digital Commerce and Kajabi and Squarespace
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    6.0
    3 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Kajabi
    -
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    Squarespace
    -
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    Abandoned cart recovery6.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Checkout user experience6.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of IBM Digital Commerce and Kajabi and Squarespace
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    6.0
    3 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Kajabi
    -
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    Squarespace
    -
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    eCommerce security6.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of IBM Digital Commerce and Kajabi and Squarespace
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Kajabi
    -
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    Squarespace
    -
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    Promotions & discounts7.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations7.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO7.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of IBM Digital Commerce and Kajabi and Squarespace
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    6.2
    3 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Kajabi
    -
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    Squarespace
    -
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    Multi-site management8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order processing5.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory management6.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Shipping6.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom functionality6.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of IBM Digital Commerce and Kajabi and Squarespace
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    -
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    Kajabi
    -
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    Squarespace
    8.4
    67 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings00 Ratings8.467 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of IBM Digital Commerce and Kajabi and Squarespace
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Kajabi
    -
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    Squarespace
    6.6
    58 Ratings
    17% below category average
    API00 Ratings00 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings00 Ratings6.237 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of IBM Digital Commerce and Kajabi and Squarespace
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Kajabi
    -
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    Squarespace
    7.6
    99 Ratings
    3% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings00 Ratings9.284 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings00 Ratings6.778 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings00 Ratings7.398 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings00 Ratings7.099 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings00 Ratings7.296 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings00 Ratings8.195 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings00 Ratings8.386 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings00 Ratings6.580 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of IBM Digital Commerce and Kajabi and Squarespace
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    -
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    Kajabi
    -
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    Squarespace
    6.1
    89 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings00 Ratings7.376 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings00 Ratings6.380 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings00 Ratings5.851 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings00 Ratings5.565 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings00 Ratings5.567 Ratings
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    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Adobe Commerce
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Digital CommerceKajabiSquarespace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.1
    (24 ratings)
    8.6
    (100 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (9 ratings)
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Digital CommerceKajabiSquarespace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    I think WebSphere Commerce is well suited for customers looking to sell products online that need robustness and scalability as a priority. It provides a complete order cycle out of the box, or you can integrate with your existing order fulfillment. Online shopping models like digital subscriptions or a marketplace are not well suited as it requires a lot of customization
    Incentivized
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    Kajabi
    If you need to create a self-paced course, Kajabi works well, if you want something complicated, and want to check homework and communicate a lot with students, Kajabi must be used in complex with other resources like Slack and YouTube. But anyway it is a good platform to create a digital course.
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    Squarespace is one of the best solutions out there for building a website or web experience that looks good, has great functionality and is cost-effective, even for smaller businesses. Although most people in marketing will find most of the elements intuitive, if the creator is struggling with any of the functionality, there are many, many support options and other users who can offer assistance.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Websphere commerce provides efficient contract based pricing. Contract based pricing greatly helps in handling prices for different business
    • Catalog filtering is one other strength of websphere commerce, as it helps to filter the show only those products that the customer is entitled to
    • Extended site model is one other strength of WCS as it greatly helps in having multiple e-commerce sites for different demographics, for branding etc
    Incentivized
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    Kajabi
    • Kajabi's community feature is fantastic. Love the ability for people to be able to collaborate.
    • Kajabi's feature that allows us to post and manage our curriculum is very efficient and easy to use.
    • Kajabi also has great features around contact management that have been critical for our use.
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    • Stupid simple to use. I know very creative people who cannot code and this is probably the easiest ever platform for them!
    • Pretty website templates and great functionality with showing off portfolios.
    • They've already figured out what are the problems that non-coding people have when creating websites and they've figured out a simple solution for all of it.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    IBM
    • The e-Marketing spots contain content associated with marketing activities to target customer segment - needs some improvement. The algorithm to set up the priority of each of the Web Activity with in eMarketing spot is little bit confusing.
    • The catalog load can be simplified.
    • WebSphere Commerce is a huge application - someone needs to spend at least 5-6 years to learn about the whole application.
    Incentivized
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    Kajabi
    • The page builder is not as intuitive as other competitors. It takes too many click to get around the different elements and settings.
    • Better onboarding mechanism and explanation of where everything is located
    • I'm not sure why I need to create a event to use a simple countdown on a sales page, when I could simply choose the end date I want the countdown to go to for a specific price point offer
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    • Customizing the sites can be highly UN intuitive
    • Navigation for editing the sites can be difficult and frustrating
    • Squarespace has different versions and it's hard to know which version you're on. You can't switch after you start making a site with one version.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    The scalability and various configurations of the product allows for a wide range of e-commerce site features. It provides a storefront to begin with so it helps with speeding up development.
    Incentivized
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    Kajabi
    We are committed to it and once we get "really good" at using it, I think it is a excellent platform and links well to Hubspot. At present, we are still just barely scratching the surface with our use of its features
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    Unless our website requires significantly more functionality in the future, I can't see us terminating our contract
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Kajabi
    The back-end system can be used efficiently and has flexibility. It doesn't have a lot of unnecessary functions or un user-friendly features. We have had no issues using the system and would continue to use it with the current functions and features. I would rate it as user-friendly yet flexible
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    It's simple to use for someone who is really good with computers as well as those who are not. I've been using my personal squarespace for years and have also helped clients build a starting page which they are later able to manage theirselves.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Kajabi
    The Kajabi Support people are helpful, fast and knowledgeable. I usually call in a panic - because I have lost something, messed something or am on a deadline. Sometimes we speak, or we do a chat. Always my angst is eliminated. I often thank the person for being "so patient" with me. LOL
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Kajabi
    These platforms are big complex pieces of software. Mor recently - Kajabi provides a done for you example which you can borrow and customise - but those were not available when we started.
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM Digital Commerce was a lot more customizable and had a good engine for us to make enhancements. We were not locked down to certain integrations and we were able to utilize a lot of the features outside of the box vs using a prescribed set of features and functionality that other tools would force us to use
    Incentivized
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    Kajabi
    ClickFunnels is a great tool for funnel automation, landing pages, and lead generation but when it comes to product delivery for content creators it lacks functionality as it reality it was not meant for that purpose. Originally, we used ClickFunnels for our funnels but we found out that we could do exactly the same with Kajabi, so we migrated all of our funnels to Kajabi
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    Squarespace was quicker to set up and more accessible to manipulate the theme, pictures, and content. The page layouts are more versatile and fluid. With WordPress, more time-consuming efforts go into making a template work the way you want it to (because of the lack of the drag-and-drop grids that Squarespace has).
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • For our clients in the apparel industry, the flexibility that WCS provides to scale up really helped their online business to grow tremendously.
    • Our client in the restaurant industry can't quite leverage what WCS has to offer though as it doesn't really fit their shopping model.
    • Another positive impact is that it allows our clients to streamline their commerce system in interacting with their backend.
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    Kajabi
    • When we used Kajabi to launch new programs we achieved the ROI of our monthly investment each time.
    • With Kajabi, the ability to offer old programs that have been offered in the past is easy to present to one-off customers or when not in a launch series.
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    • The cost is reasonably decent. My client says they spent about $20 a month or $240 a year. I asked her if she could add Google AdSense to her blog one day, and they believe they can. They said a custom site would cost them $3000-10,000 depending on who does it. And I agreed, but I found the website they created was on the lower end of that range.
    Incentivized
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