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Adobe Business Catalyst (Discontinued)

Adobe Business Catalyst (Discontinued)

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What is Adobe Business Catalyst (Discontinued)?

Adobe Business Catalyst was a cloud-hosted system for building and managing web content and online stores with a built-in CRM framework in addition to sales, service, and marketing features including eCommerce and Email Marketing tools. It has been end of…

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    7.9
    79%
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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $10 per month
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Features

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

6.6
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Adobe Business Catalyst (Discontinued)?

Adobe Business Catalyst was a cloud-hosted system for building and managing web content and online stores with a built-in CRM framework in addition to sales, service, and marketing features including eCommerce and Email Marketing tools. It has been end of life (EOL) since 2020.

Adobe Business Catalyst (Discontinued) Integrations

Adobe Business Catalyst (Discontinued) Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

Adobe Business Catalyst was a cloud-hosted system for building and managing web content and online stores with a built-in CRM framework in addition to sales, service, and marketing features including eCommerce and Email Marketing tools. It has been end of life (EOL) since 2020.

Adobe Business Catalyst (Discontinued) starts at $10.

Reviewers rate API highest, with a score of 7.9.

The most common users of Adobe Business Catalyst (Discontinued) are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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January 26, 2018

If only Adobe BC accounts could stop charging for unwanted services - Be careful No BC Refund Policy Exisits !

Richard Taylor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Richard Taylor
Managing Director
Automatrics Limited (Security and Investigations, 1-10 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
The service provision is good the accounts customer service is poor so I would struggle to give BC a better than average review, if only they could offer customers a better accounts service then the value would be much higher.
February 16, 2017

Adobe Business Catalyst, A Solid Mid-Level hosted CMS

John Reitz | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Reitz
Creative Director
Links Technology Solutions (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Business Catalyst is perfect when you need to create a data driven element for a site. The Web Apps element is great and not something other hosted CMS systems have. It is also a good product when someone wants to make use of multiple modules in one place such as having your website, CRM, online store and email marketing in one place. BC is fine for small sites, but is a bit over complicated and over-priced for a basic brochure-ware type site without any dynamic features. It also does not allow enough customization for a large enterprise level site with a demanding client. As a hosted solution, it has no ability for server-side development or other customization that might be needed on a very complex custom site.
June 08, 2016

Developed for Speed

Aaron Landry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Aaron Landry
UX / UI Designer
Envoc (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
When integrating with other systems, it seems to not be a very good fit. For example, if I am a shop and I am not managing my entire inventory within the system, there are ways to get the data into and out of the system but they aren't as easy as integrating a solution on a server. It is very well suited for most if not all marketing websites.
May 31, 2016

Business Catalyst Review: small to medium e-commerce businesses best option

Kristi Millsap, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kristi Millsap, MBA
Internet Strategist
Thrively Digital (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Business Catalyst (BC) is a terrific solution for small to medium businesses that are able to leverage e-commerce and seek to have an all-in-one solution. It's less of a fit for larger businesses that will soon scale or enterprise-level websites that have internal and external focus web needs greater than e-commerce.
May 03, 2016

Building Business with Business Catalyst

Nancy Sheridan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nancy Sheridan
President
Oasis Grafx (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As a partner, you have the option to use B.C templates or buy B.C. templates from third parties. If you choose to custom design a site, you can use B.C. content holders and modules in the build. Quite frankly, I like to encourage potential clients to move to B.C. instead of relying on WordPress because of security and I believe B.C. sites are easier to maintain.
April 22, 2016

Adobe Business Catalyst and why it is the solution for most small businesses

Jonathan Hodak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jonathan Hodak
Senior javascript developer
Target (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Business Catalyst is an absolute rock-star for companies that want an all in one solution, who have limited budgets and/or little technical expertise. It will scale well and can grow with your company. It is more complex and more flexible than something like Wix, where your options are heavily limited, but less open than WordPress where you can use plug-ins and custom code to rebuild how anything works. So it is a nice area in the middle.

Adobe Business Catalyst would probably not be a great solution for companies who want absolute control over their website and everything in it and have highly experienced technical resources to build out whatever they need since not every area of the website or server can be modified.

February 25, 2016

Business Catalyst: The Chemistry Between Designer and Client

Dan Butler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dan Butler
Graphic Designer / Web Designer
Tek Systems (Graphic Design, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I feel that Adobe Business Catalyst (BC) is best suited to small businesses and free lance designers reselling to small businesses. The whole interface is very personal and easy to use from an inexperienced perspective. This makes it a perfect platform for small business websites or even portfolio websites. Its lack of different server side protocols and languages makes it perfect for the small scale web implementation.
July 17, 2015

From Business Catalyst to our own branded ZebraCatalyst

Jeff French | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeff French
Web Director
ZebraGraphics (Internet, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The key question to a client would be to ask if they want to be able to do their own web site site maintenance without the need of software. The added benefit of the CMS is that it also comes with the CRM, e-Mail campaign capabilities, reporting and much more.
July 08, 2015

One Login to Rule Them All

Pauline Kraus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Pauline Kraus
Programming and Special Projects
Tavistock Creative (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Overall Business Catalyst is an excellent product especially for smaller agencies and freelancer developers.

Helpful resources for BC partners are:
December 17, 2014

A Review of the Adobe Family

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Well, folks, I hate to tell you this, but you don't have very many options. Sure, there are open source programs out there, as well as cheap knock-offs of the Adobe products, but you will more than likely end up buying CC after a couple weeks of struggle and strife. My largest criticism for the Adobe products would be the enormous price tag attached, as well as the EXTREMELY limited options to own just one or two Adobe programs. While working at a marketing agency, it comes in handy to have all the programs. If I where to rely on photography as a source of income instead, I would not want to pay money that gets me ALL of the programs. I would want the option to purchase Photoshop, Lightroom, and perhaps one or two other programs alone.
December 09, 2014

Innovaxis Marketing Review of Adobe Business Catalyst

Sean Parnell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sean Parnell
President
Innovaxis Marketing Consulting (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Business Catalyst is easier to use than WordPress and is infinitely better than other open source platforms like Joomla, Drupal, Umbraco, and Ruby on Rails. This holds true for both website developers to build new websites as well as for end-users to write blogs, edit website content, upload images, embed videos., etc. As a result, Adobe Business Catalyst is ideal for about 90% of websites out there: from business-to-business (our focus as Innovaxis) and small to medium business-to-consumer sites. It's not as useful for large consumer e-commerce sites that need a high degree of customization (where a lot of people use Magento), but Business Catalyst is good for just about everything else. Our clients are very happy with it.
November 26, 2014

Business Catalyst - The Right Solution for Certain Clients

Victor Campos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Victor Campos
Web Developer
San Diego Community College District (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Business Catalyst is well-suited for clients that need an all-in-one solution: customer relationship management; product inventory management; eCommerce; email marketing. Because BC is a very powerful and all-encompassing solution, it is not the best one for many clients. They would be paying for many features that they would probably never use.
I like that it is tightly-integrated with Adobe Creative Cloud, specifically, Dreamweaver. This gives one more control to make great designs.
April 19, 2014

Adobe Business Catalyst - An all-in-one solution like nothing else out there

Scott Shefler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Shefler
VP of Web Development & Co-Founder
Chicago Digital (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Likelihood to Recommend
Business Catalyst is a scalable solution for most small to medium sized companies. While not right for every company, Business Catalyst is fluid enough to meet most business demands. The Adobe Business Catalyst Community helps to educate developers and agencies by providing resources to better equip us with the tools and knowledge to build better websites on the system. Resources like BC Gurus, BC Academe, Kiyuco, Tribe Vita to name a few.
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