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Elastic Path

Score8 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

What is Elastic Path?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Website integration

    Integrates with an existing company website or blog.

    Category average: 8

  • Visual customization

    Users can customize the look & feel of the storefront; storefront is visually attractive.

    Category average: 7.3

  • Personalized recommendations

    Display or recommend certain products depending on the customer’s identity or shopping/browsing history.

    Category average: 6.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Inventory management

    Includes tools or integrations for managing inventory.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Bulk product upload

    Admins can upload products in bulk using spreadsheets.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Product management

    Product catalog can be easily updated.

    Category average: 7.9

Elastic Path is easy to skin for a CSS developer

Pros

  • Easy for non-Java programmers to understand
  • Comes with a lot of built-in functionality

Cons

  • Challenging to skin with CSS when you first encounter it

Return on Investment

  • The positive impact was quick development time

Extensible and enhanceable E-commerce platform!

Pros

  • Experience driven commerce .
  • Allows functionality to experience management platforms like Adobe Marketing Cloud.Gives us a single view of your customers, and one place to manage your entire digital presence.
  • Promotion and personalization engine is simple and clean.
  • Cache framework is extensive with a 3 level approach at client side(CMS), core and cortex. - OpenJPA + EhCache.
  • Training documentation is good.
  • Cortex API architecture is well tiered and strong.
  • External feeds for catalog data load are available.
  • Logging frameworks available with Log4j
  • API can be exposed from the commerce engine as both SOAP and REST Based.

Cons

  • Product management tool should be assesible over web.
  • Versioning of catalog items would a nice feature to have.

Return on Investment

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