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Salesforce Commerce Cloud vs commercetools comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

commercetools
Ranking in eCommerce Platforms
22nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Ranking in eCommerce Platforms
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the eCommerce Platforms category, the mindshare of commercetools is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Commerce Cloud is 4.1%, down from 15.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
eCommerce Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Salesforce Commerce Cloud4.1%
commercetools1.1%
Other94.8%
eCommerce Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Rachit Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Structured APIs and flexible customization have simplified building full-stack commerce sites
Regarding how commercetools can be improved, I did not find anything that could be better in terms of features for my use case. However, the resources and documentation of commercetools could be clearer so developers can understand the APIs and build websites accordingly. Whatever is needed for my use case, commercetools provides. If the project scales and certain companies require additional changes, you might need customization in Merchant Centers. Otherwise, all the features that are there provide what I needed. Additionally, commercetools could improve how they handle the customer database and orders by consolidating their two separate collections for carts and orders. Once a cart is ordered, it is converted into an order state, and this process could be improved. Furthermore, they could improve the customer collections. When I was using commercetools, there was no AI analytics, but they could add AI features such as product recommendations for specific customers based on their viewership, cart suggestions, and bundle products. These are improvements they could make.
Deena Dayalan K - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Leader Application Operations & Operational Excellence at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Unified commerce platform has streamlined direct sales and integrated promotions and billing
One of the most valuable features in Salesforce Commerce Cloud is that it helps me avoid storing credit card information, with a vault function taken care of. Salesforce provides this vault feature, enabling me to bill my D2C customers directly and also feeding data into my Marketing Cloud and Services Cloud. For visibility features in Salesforce Commerce Cloud, I might need to schedule a separate meeting as I can only share certain levels of information. Experience-wise, it is very good; the platform helps identify promotional opportunities and integrates well with Salesforce's Trade Promotion Management. The main benefits Salesforce Commerce Cloud provides are significant process improvements. If we did not have it, I would need to establish a separate D2C portal such as Magento Commerce and integrate with Salesforce for some data. Having Salesforce Commerce Cloud is essential as it integrates very quickly and is part of the entire ecosystem.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Everything apart from the previous mention is good; I am impressed with the flexibility and performance of commercetools."
"Earlier, product launch took around seven to eight months, but now it takes less than a month, which is a massive improvement for our clients."
"commercetools has positively impacted my organization by improving efficiency, facilitating the integration of new services, and especially development with its microservices architecture, which greatly encourages having new releases and being able to deploy much more frequently and atomically without as many regression errors, because everything is more isolated, which helps significantly."
"commercetools fits into my workflow by providing the best feature, which is the structure of the data, with straightforward APIs, simple data we can control, hundreds of useful APIs, and powerful customizations through the Merchant Center that differentiate it from other e-commerce platforms such as Magento or Shopify."
"At this point, the product works flawlessly."
"Using commercetools, very little customization is needed, as everything else is present in commercetools itself."
"Commercetools has impacted my organization positively by allowing us to give a better solution compared to other options."
"Commercetools has positively impacted my organization by providing a great opportunity to increase time to market."
"For everything that we have used this solution for, we have had the best experience."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Salesforce Commerce Cloud is quite robust and can do many functions. The solution enables extensive personalization. It provides accelerators tailored to your website, simplifying deployment."
"I like the dashboard which provides centralized access to all management, policies, rules, etc."
"We use this solution for general CRM use cases including capturing the regular customer lifecycle, opportunities, accounts and managing leads."
"I have found the list creation and dashboard customization features valuable."
"Demandware helped the company set up a user friendly e-commerce website in a short time frame and offers stable system performance."
"The ease of customization is valuable."
 

Cons

"Commercetools can be improved in areas such as order management and the checkout process."
"Regarding commercetools' AI capabilities, I think its accuracy and reliability of output were around 40 to 50%. The answer would change when asked the same question repeatedly."
"The main issue is the price."
"Support is also good overall, although they may be a bit slow with our queries at times."
"The issues I encountered with configuring the shipping methods in commercetools relate to the out-of-the-box configuration, where there is a limitation on the number of delivery modes."
"My advice to others looking into using commercetools is that in 2026, I would go with a simpler solution."
"My experience with the documentation and learning resources for commercetools is that it was not very clear."
"I experienced a challenging moment when commercetools had scheduled downtime, impacting user login and operations simultaneously, which caused significant difficulties for our B2B aspects."
"The solution should have more and faster reporting, as well as better performance."
"Needs better access to code and customizability of the solution."
"If you have followed the best practices you will not have a problem, however you are allowed to change the caching for different pages and that may cause a lot of problems with the performance."
"The extensibility of end-to-end lifecycle management for an order can be enhanced."
"There is space to have better communication with other kinds of platforms."
"The community is very closed source. If you don't buy it, you won't be able to learn it."
"While the price is reasonable for what you are getting, it could still be better."
"There is always room for improvement with any solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There are no significant upfront license costs."
"The product is expensive."
"I think price-wise, it's a little bit expensive. It can be made cheaper for smaller businesses. I understand that for larger businesses, it can be a payable amount. But for medium to smaller, it is kind of costly, and it might be difficult for them to pay."
"I don't know how much the solution costs per user, but I know it's our biggest cost in the company."
"The licensing works on a per-user basis."
"I give the price of the solution a three out of ten."
"Salesforce is not a cheap solution."
"The licensing of Salesforce Commerce Cloud is something that will depend on the customer's usability. For us as a company, we are in a position where we will be paying the premium for licensing. If we go to the customer who is seeking a B2C solution quickly, we will definitely look at the pricing when it comes to the user base and receive good discounts. Discount is something that depends on the volume and that is where we need to work on. It is a little sensitive market when it comes to licensing procurement. There are some good competitors."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Salesforce Commerce Cloud?
I am not involved in the pricing or licensing details, so I cannot provide specific insights into the setup costs.
What needs improvement with Salesforce Commerce Cloud?
If Salesforce Commerce Cloud could incorporate features such as Product Data Management and Customer Data Platform internally, it would benefit large customers such as us, reducing reliance on mult...
What is your primary use case for Salesforce Commerce Cloud?
Salesforce Commerce Cloud's main use case is D2C and B2C, focusing on direct-to-customers. Salesforce Commerce Cloud's architecture is very effective for our channel partners, providing them a good...
 

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