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Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware) is a cloud-based eCommerce solution that touts flexibility and scalability for enterprises. It features merchandising tools, such as sorting, filtering, and image zooming.
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What is Salesforce Commerce Cloud?
Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware) is a cloud-based eCommerce solution that touts flexibility and scalability for enterprises. It features merchandising tools, such as sorting, filtering, image zooming, and more, allowing customers to browse products with confidence and control. Commerce Cloud also provides inventory management controls, built in to the platform. Its flexibility is meant to accommodate diverse business logic models, and its web-based UI is meant to simplify management and control for less than technically savvy administrators. Visitor/shopper data are leveraged to provide intelligence, and personalize the shopping experience of individuals or segmented targets groups.
The Commerce Cloud is now part of the Salesforce Customer Success Platform, a platform for retailers to engage their customers online and in stores throughout the customer lifecycle, including marketing to community management and customer service.
The Commerce Cloud is now part of the Salesforce Customer Success Platform, a platform for retailers to engage their customers online and in stores throughout the customer lifecycle, including marketing to community management and customer service.
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Salesforce Commerce Cloud Integrations
- Coveo Qubit
- Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
- CrowdTwist
- part of Oracle CX Marketing
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application | No |
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Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware) is a cloud-based eCommerce solution that touts flexibility and scalability for enterprises. It features merchandising tools, such as sorting, filtering, and image zooming.
Salesforce Commerce Cloud starts at $4.
KalioCommerce and BigCommerce are common alternatives for Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
Reviewers rate Bulk product upload highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Salesforce Commerce Cloud are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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May 09, 2021
Best CMS software you can buy
Salesforce is being used by my site within the organization to control the stream of customers and clients that come through our organization. We are planning to roll out its use to all sites next year! It has helped direct the pipeline and streamline all of our delegated tasks. We also like how we can keep track of all customer and consumer information on the same platform as our other tasks. This is really beneficial when working from home so that we do not need a lot of tabs or browsers open to get the same job done. We had used other platforms but Salesforce is much more streamlined and efficient than others we used before. I haven't been stressed managing our inventory and orders as I had in the past.
- The best feature we have used is managing our help desk requests that we get nonstop throughout the day. We get notified when it has come in, been solved, and any follow-up needed.
- Tracking donations for our charity events and non-profit aspects has been streamlines and more efficiently tracked. Again, having this on the same software as the other features makes Salesforce unbeatable.
- The automation and adaptability of Salesforce is a unique aspect of its software!
- You need to have a solid internet connection to make all the functionality possible, which, at times, has created problems as people are working from home.
- Occasionally we have encountered delays in the reporting that we expected which has thrown off our timelines. But it has been rare.
- The need for training, experience and time using the system can make this a difficult switch to make. You need to be invested in changing and using it to take the time and effort worth it.
April 14, 2021
Salesforce give our sales team the extra force we need
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is being used across the whole organization globally, from my knowledge. It tracks all our accounts, deals, agreements, pipeline, and contacts. I am in the sales department and I know for certain everyone in my department uses it. Finance, legal, and all management, our global sales support team uses it as well.
- Helps me keep my pipeline up to date and organized
- I use it to forecast my future months opportunities
- The integration with DocuSign keeps giving me an error and isn't working well recently
- Sometimes it requires multiple steps to do something (to close lost an opportunity requires 3 fields to be complete)
- It would be great if there is a way to mass update things (moving the close date to next month for example)
April 07, 2021
Whistles, Bells and a whole lot of headache.
We attempted to use [Salesforce Commerce Cloud] but due to Salesforce cantankerous pricing structure and falsification of information from their salespersons, we scrapped the implementation before launch. It was originally intended to help us with online and walk-in sales from existing or potential customers. We had hoped it would address the number of steps employees needed to take to [fulfill] orders. We were looking to automate a lot of it via Commerce Cloud.
- The ability to schedule & tie unique items to customer data.
- Everything costs extra. [I feel] the sales pitch does not include or tell you about the thousands you will have to shell out in addition to their licensing fees to get what you have been showcased. [I believe] it's a racket.
- Nothing exciting or different about the product other than its maintenance on the site post-launch (from what I have seen. We scrapped before launch).
- Salesforce makes you work with a 'partner', which [I believe] is another layer to their pricing lie. Not only are you paying SF, but also, [I feel] some unknown, unchecked, free-to-scam 3rd party that SF recommends to do the work for their platform.
March 06, 2020
Salesforce Commerce Cloud Review
I use Salesforce often. It is a relatively intuitive piece of software and seems to be the market leader. I feel as though they could likely and probably be more responsive to client requests for products on the road map. In addition, one might think for a company as big as theirs, their servers wouldn't constantly be slowing down the UI.
- User interface
- Updates
- Support
- Slow at times
- Product road map
- Administrative control
February 12, 2020
Salesforce Cloud - A Good Solution
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is being used across our entire organization. Our managers use it to direct their job setups, our customer service area uses it to set up & provide the details for all our work orders, our sales personnel use it for sales contacts, proposals, and opportunities. Our executives use it for reporting, tracking and review.
- Provide job order detail.
- Provide sales & customer contact info.
- Application is difficult to program for reporting.
- New Lightning feature is not conducive to our work needs.
January 16, 2020
Good, but needs to speed up
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is used collaboratively with our clients for their eCommerce departments. This is a tool to aid advertisements, coupons, content, fulfillment, social media, email, sales tracking and more.
- Easy visualization of consumer journey.
- No coding required.
- Lack of customer service.
- Product delays.
July 18, 2019
Salesforce Commerce Cloud Helps You Deliver
We implement solutions like Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce to customers across industries and of different business sizes. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, but customers have inquired about and used this particular product in the Salesforce ecosystem with our services before and liked it. I write about this product as a marketer and help promote its features and functionality working in the business and technology sector.
- A good solution for a variety of endustries.
- Small and large businesses reap the benefits.
- Our customers create more personalized shopping experiences for their customers with this tool.
- None that I can think of. I'm sure we've had customers run into issues case-by-case, but nothing that isn't easily fixed.
March 05, 2019
Best retail ecom hosted platform
It supports our retail ecom business in US and Canada. It is planned to support global expansion. We host a website with our 4 brands listed as separate storefronts but allow for a combined check out process. We use BM for controlling the content as well as the promos and coupons used on the site. We are connected to CyberSource for credit card and PayPal payments as well as using SVS for gift card processing. We will be expanding this ecom to other countries in Asia and European markets.
- Great platform for ecom
- Good management tools with business manager
- Cost is higher than most of this type
- Allow for this to be used for B2B websites
- Add the ability for an OMS system to support WMS processing
January 25, 2019
A Good Alternative to SAP
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is used by my organization to manage marketing forecasts, merchandising, content, promotions, customer service, fulfillment, and artificial intelligence. It is typically used by one Marketing Department we deployed it to. It addresses the problem of having multiple sporadic applications that don't communicate with each other. Salesforce succeeds in integrating all of their products like a Lego System.
- Raised our Marketing Reach by 30%
- Allowed us to adequately gauge social media reach
- Increased our sales by 20%
- Extreme scalability.
- Price should be lower
- I wish the UI was a little sleeker
- More features in Social Media management
March 02, 2018
Good stuff!!
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is a great tool for prospecting and analytics. It provides the ability to search for and manage leads in real time and track a number of metrics even if you use other plugins and softphones.
- Reporting and analytics
- Database management for client lists
- Organize information and previous interactions
- Click to call
- Automatically queuing calls
September 22, 2017
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is a good choice
We used the Salesforce Commerce Cloud to stand up our customer facing responsive digital experience.
- Let the business user control the UI without needing IT resources
- Gave us the abilty to scale effortlessly
- Allowed us to gain access to features we would have had to build on our own otherwise
- Content authoring could be more robust
- API framework
We are using Demandware as our commerce platform for our core website. The tool is administered by IT and by the Digital Commerce portion of the Marketing Department. Features and functionality are managed by IT, while content, pricing, promotions, and other Business Manager functions are handled by marketers. Demandware was adopted to replace or unify internally developed commerce tools and to provide a cohesive content management solution for the core website.
- Demandware business manager features a very robust set of options to accomplish many merchandising and content tasks out of the box. For typical retailers, there are usually very simple ways to accomplish common tasks.
- The ability to schedule content and tie unique content to session data is particularly useful and fully featured.
- Many features that would typically be missing from a home-grown CMS and would require development are included in business manager and easily controlled by marketers.
- The UX within the Business Manager portion of Demandware, the primary interface for marketers, is generally a confusing, inconsistent mess. Particularly infuriating are the lack of consistency for search and sort behavior within the tool.
- A number of useful features, such as the ability to set schedules or tie features to unique customer segments, have seemingly arbitrary limitations imposed.
- Demandware's idea of leveraging the community to be a learning resource and a sounding board for new ideas and features is a nice theory, but in practice it doesn't work for businesses with a lot of customization. I'm left with the impression that individual support is not a priority.
October 27, 2015
Implementing Demandware, Notes from the Front Lines
I work for an agency and technology firm who designs unique eCommerce storefronts for top name brands and implements them on the Demandware platform. Our core business involves taking the core Demandware offering and customizing it for our clients to meet their business needs, and according to industry best practices. Our parent company is full service eCommerce logistics provider and works extensively with Demandware and a few other major platforms.
- Demandware is a SaaS solution so it not only provides software but a solid infrastructure. As a client-focused software engineer trying to meet challenging needs quickly, it's good to know that I can focus on the business logic without worrying about the "plumbing." The platform is very scalable and tuned for high performance, as long as you follow common sense architecture.
- I've come to appreciate the software development and deployment model, which continues to be improved upon. The platform is customizable via server-side JavaScript, with a rich Demandware-specific API. The current version of the platform supports good patterns and practices, via CommonJS modules, while still making it possible to edit, save, and view your changes almost immediately on a development instance. I feel like this is the best of both worlds in terms of developing for the web.
- Demandware has been in development for many years and has a surprisingly large amount of features. Just one example is the rich Campaigns and Promotions feature, which supports a complex number of configurable conditions and business rules. Clients can easily get many kinds of targeted deals and content up and running, with little development effort on my part, and manage the settings themselves via the Business Manager interface. With additional customization, the options are almost limitless.
- I'm impressed with the speed and consistency that Demandware releases new features and updates. Every month there's new functionality that can be leveraged to provide better solutions faster.
- The #1 pain with Demandware as a developer has been Pipelines. Originally development on this platform was designed as a visual drag, drop, and configure model. You would create these logic flows (pipelines) in the visual editor, made up of nodes (pipelets) and connectors. These quickly got out of hand and turned into a spiderweb. Worse they were not like anything that most developers are used to. Pipelines save to XML but the markup was not clean and difficult to merge or diff, to say the least. I guess they were aiming for a more simple model but quickly realized that was not sufficient for real-world applications. To their credit, Demandware recognized this and has been steadily moving toward a clean, pure-code model.
- The benefits of SaaS and the quick release cycle can be a mixed blessing. Features and API's can and do change from time to time. When you're using a platform like this you cannot build it and forget about it. It's not obvious to everyone but you're signing up for some amount of maintenance over time to keep things up to date.
- The platform has a flaw that still hasn't been resolved. Each Demandware customer "realm" has many instances for development, staging, production, etc. All of the instances have their own user accounts and passwords, and you have to log in to each instance separately. It's very frustrating as an admin or developer, though less so to business users who will only need to access one instance. Demandware could really use a Single Sign On!
- Demandware has a marketplace for third-party extensions to add pre-build integrations with other systems. While there is a reasonably broad selection of third-party vendors, I have to point out that the quality of many of these components has been sub-par. There are a few gems but many are clunky and quickly cobbled together, and surely require further investment of time. Demandware needs to do a better job of quality assurance with third-party vendors.
December 09, 2014
Scalability, Stability and Support from Demandware
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We implemented Demandware at Urban Decay Cosmetics three years ago to replace a custom eCommerce solution. The DW platform boosted our abilities to provide a stable and scalable eCommerce solution to the fast-growing brand. Our DW solution provides our storefront and entire ".com" brand presence with editorial content and a solid and secure shopping experience. The solution freed us from relying on internal resources to maintain and improve urbandecay.com and allowed a company with much greater development resources to provide us with continual "best of breed" improvements as well as relatively easy connections to leading and start up 3rd party service providers such as Bazaarvoice for Reviews, MainStreet for OMS and Baynote for product recommendations. Today we focus limited resources on front-end development to keep the site fresh and exciting with minimal back-end troubleshooting while meeting technical challenges given to us by the Marketing Team as they feel ever more comfortable pushing the creative envelope. This is something extremely important to the Urban Decay brand.
- Scalability - In December 2013 alone we launched a "tentpole" product that sent our single day eCommerce sales from an average of 500 orders per day to over 17,000.
- Integrations - Through "cartridges" Demandware facilitates 3rd party integrations in a relatively easy way. Trusted providers such as Merchant Banks, UGC Integrators and Social Media pipelines can be set up and launched with much less developer time than in a traditional, custom solution.
- Improvement - The Demandware product development teams do a great job of keeping on and sometimes even ahead of trends and technical advances. They roll out improvements large and small at regular intervals and maintain excellent documentation. When the online documentation isn't enough, we've found that our support contacts do a great job of filling in the gaps for us. When something doesn't go as planned with a rollout of new features (as can happen with software!), Demandware is quick to make adjustments and good at communicating what they are doing.
- Image Management - Through Demandware's Business Manager, loading, assigning and maintaining images in the Product Catalog is a bit cumbersome. Granted, our current implementation doesn't take advantage of DW's Image Management that allows clients to load a single, high resolution image that gets dynamically scaled throughout the site so we load several versions of each product image in each size we need. This certainly compounds the complexity of a tedious task. Moving to Image Manager is expected to reduce some of this frustration.
- Business Manager - The backend management tool for Demandware could use some UI improvements. The company has a plan to make merchandising and catalog management more WYSIWYG, but has delayed implementation of the improvements. My opinion is if the tool is not ready, then don't force it going live.
- URL Management - Historically, we have had challenges with the way Demandware handles URLs. Specifically, it used to append required elements that diminished SEO effectiveness and URL "cleanliness". Additionally, we've had challenges with redirects resulting in endless loops, etc. In 2013 the company addressed many SEO challenges and these improvements have had a positive impact at Urban Decay. Interestingly, today, as I write this review, Demandware pushed a new code version that is expected to address some remaining issues with redirects and other SEO-related issues.
September 26, 2014
Demandware Platform
Demandware is an end to end retail e-commerce business enabler which has a strong ability to deal with application building and maintenance. It's being used for a multiple number of our client's online stores enablement for all kinds of devices supported with Responsive Design.
- Demandware has a well built structure in terms of an online storefront called SiteGenesis with which you can do faster site building.
- Demandware has an effective cache, deployment model and less down time(in fact no down time).
- Demandware has content management and online marketing features inside it's own tool called Business Manager.
- No JAR, No WAR, No EAR(no conpiling versions overhead and builds etc)........single click production deployment both code and content.
- No local installations required. SaaS ;)
- API enhancement to allow the developers more better.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Demandware is being used across our ecommerce division to support direct to consumer sales for all brands. It addresses scalability and efficiency issues.
- Promotions: ability to easily develop and schedule promotions in a variety of structures including source codes, promo codes, thresholds.
- Customer groups - change content and promotional offers based on a customer group like an employee, someone of another organization etc.
- Middleware - would be great to have an all in one solution that incorporates an order management solution.
- CMS - would be nice to have a content managment solution native to the platform so you didn't have to use a front end developer to put up EVERY banner - maybe you could identify certain content slots that can be edited and changed on the fly by a brand team
- Speed - in the staging environment the sites run VERY slow. the interface to work in (business manager) is also VERY slow.
March 18, 2014
Demandware is a good SAS platform for eCom.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have built several high transaction eCommerce websites using Demandware. The platform was be used across the entire organization. It was used as CMS, development platform, etc for our eCommerce needs.
- Simple to start
- Easy set up as it is SAS
- Lacks good documentation
- Difficult to accomplish basic tasks or anything that is not out of the box
- Hard to integrate third party backgrounds.