Create unique commerce experiences without the complexity and risk. See the differences between Elastic Path & commercetools.
Elastic Path and commercetools are both popular commerce providers. But retailers, manufacturers, and distributors should know the differences between Elastic Path and commercetools.
Elastic Path simplifies legacy migrations with incremental development. Commercetools requires developers to build and integrate each component from scratch, increasing time, cost, and complexity.
Elastic Path offers merchandiser-friendly tools plus robust APIs for devs. Commercetools was built for technical users and lacks an intuitive interface for merchandisers managing catalogs and promos.
Elastic Path Integrations Hub offers pre-built connections for search, tax, shipping, and more. Commercetools requires custom dev and self-hosted functions, delaying launches and adding overhead.
Elastic Path enables tailored catalogs, dynamic bundles, and pricing by region or segment. Commercetools needs manual setup by devs, with pricing models that are complex and burdensome to manage.
Elastic Path’s Composable Frontend Pre-Composed Solutions enable fast, scalable launches. Commercetools requires extensive frontend customization, slowing time-to-market and adding complexity.
Elastic Path offers native subscription features to boost recurring revenue and LTV with predictable streams. Commercetools lacks native support, requiring third-party subscription integrations.
Both Elastic Path and commercetools are headless and API-first. Elastic Path’s Composer speeds storefront launches, while commercetools' complex APIs double implementation time.
Elastic Path enables scaling with components like PXM, Subscriptions, Carts, and Promotions. Commercetools forces retailers to assemble the full stack, except for their cart service.
Elastic Path delivers fast, personalized experiences with optimized APIs and composable tech, needing little dev support. Commercetools demands heavy technical effort, raising total cost of ownership.
We selected Elastic Path because we believe in the same thing: innovating our business together. Having a partner who truly believes in what you are looking to create is the best partner out there.Rebecca Hicks eCommerce Product Manager, Pella Windows & Doors
We selected Elastic Path because we believe in the same thing: innovating our business together. Having a partner who truly believes in what you are looking to create is the best partner out there.
Learn about the differences between Elastic Path and Commercetools.
Elastic Path Payments is a pre-integrated payments solution that is fully hosted, managed, and ready-to-go. Commercetools payment integrations require coding, hosting, and maintaining multiple services.
Elastic Path has a long list of security certifications, including SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, and is the only HIPAA ready API-first platform.
Elastic Path has a guaranteed response time of 100ms and clearly defined rate-limits. Commercetools has strict limits on how many products, variants, and other data storage is available, but provides no guidance on API volume – a large factor in decreased performance or noisy-neighbor issues.
Elastic Path allows for data management and non-core flows, while commercetools requires use of the API and developer involvement for day-to-day schema management. Additionally, Elastic Path has prebuilt and easy-to-use commerce technology, while Commercetools only supports a small portion of APIs from its Merchant Center.
Elastic Path has built-in bundle support, can handle a large number of pricing options, and allows for easy catalog publishing. Dynamic bundles enable merchandisers to quickly and easily create bundles that allow customers to pick and choose the items to be included in their bundle, along with specific bundle pricing that does not require a new pricebook. Commercetools has no bundle support out of the box. Instead, users must build, host, and maintain multiple applications through the commercetools bundle starter on GitHub.
Elastic Path’s Integrations Hub has “instant on” integrations for popular third-party commerce tools. Business users can turn on and set up an integration without a single line of code for these prebuilt and fully supported integrations. Commercetools only has a marketplace listing for integrations, and does not provide the actual code or support for them.
Elastic Path uses AWS by default and allows for tight integrations with an AWS environment, while commercetools uses Google by default and pushes customers toward that provider. Elastic Path supports standards like webhooks, allowing users to leverage any hosts, including IBM, Oracle, Alibaba, DigitalOcean, Vercel, and other providers. Commercetools events and API Extensions work only with AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Elastic Path and Commercetools both use MACH architectures. MACH stands for microservices, API-first, cloud-native, and headless.
Quickly orchestrate and manage composable solutions with the only commerce-intelligent integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS).
Set bundle-specific pricing & choose products that can be included in bundles to deliver the flexibility your customers desire.
Manage product variations with separate pricing to deliver outstanding customer experiences.
Schedule a demo to see how Elastic Path delivers unified commerce for leading global brands.