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commercetools

bycommercetools
in Digital Commerce
4.4

Overview

Product Information on commercetools

Updated 13th October 2025

What is commercetools?

commercetools is a software that provides a cloud-based platform for building and managing digital commerce experiences across various channels. The software offers modular components including product information management, cart and checkout functionality, order management, and search capabilities. It is designed to support flexible integration with backend and frontend systems, enabling businesses to create scalable and customizable commerce solutions. commercetools addresses the business need for agility in delivering commerce services by allowing development teams to adopt a microservices architecture and APIs that facilitate faster deployment and changes. The software assists organizations in adapting to evolving customer demands and market conditions, and aims to streamline commerce operations through centralized management and extensibility.

commercetools Pricing

commercetools software uses a subscription-based pricing model with costs determined by factors such as gross merchandise volume and number of API calls The software offers custom plans tailored to individual business requirements and does not publicly provide fixed pricing tiers

Overall experience with commercetools

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
50M - 250M USD, Retail
FAVORABLE

“Great tech and even better team”

5.0
Feb 2, 2026
Overall the technology is very flexible and easy to work with. The connector marketplace gives a lot of choices too. What makes this company exceptional is the team - always responsive and proactive. Additionally, we built everything in house, and what gave us the confidence and knowledge to do it was their Academy training.
Engineer
1B - 3B USD, Retail
CRITICAL

“Platform Lacks Out-of-Box Features and Essential Merchant Center Functionalities”

3.0
Dec 5, 2025
Composable commerce with microservices approach is powerfull to build custom commerce engine. At the same time, platform is not giving OOB features that can be used to build applications

About Company

Company Description

Updated 15th May 2025

commercetools is a provider of digital software that employs flexible Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to facilitate a scalable, agile and customizable commerce infrastructure. This company, which introduced the concept of headless commerce, assists businesses in nurturing innovation and growth. The products developed by commercetools facilitate the integration of physical stores with digital channels and enhance the performance of a variety of channels, whether it be in-car navigation, video content, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality or interfacing with devices enabled by Internet of Things, as well as future devices that have not yet been developed. commercetools operates out of its headquarters in Munich, Germany and maintains offices across Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Company Details

Updated 15th May 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
München, Germany
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
https://www.commercetools.com

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commercetools Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(147 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
48%
4 Star
45%
3 Star
6%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Great tech and even better team

    5.0
    Feb 2, 2026
    Overall the technology is very flexible and easy to work with. The connector marketplace gives a lot of choices too. What makes this company exceptional is the team - always responsive and proactive. Additionally, we built everything in house, and what gave us the confidence and knowledge to do it was their Academy training.
  • IT Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Out-of-the-Box Features Support Reliable Performance and high flexibility

    4.0
    Dec 2, 2025
    Commercetools has proven to be highly robust and flexible and handles large volymes reliably. The solution feels well designed, with an architecture that gives us freedom to build what suits us. Overall it's a enterpricse-grade vendor for those that that are not afraid to invest in order to scale
  • Software Developer
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Commercetools Offers Developer Flexibility But Backend Data Queries Remain Challenging

    4.0
    Nov 27, 2025
    Commercetools has been a reliable e-commerce backbone for our online store. Our experience with both the platform itself and the customer support has typically been very positive. One minor drawback would be the non-relational backend data model, which makes complex data queries quite hard.
  • Group Product Manager
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Comprehensive Tool Underused Due To Early Launch And Costly Front-End Setup

    4.0
    Nov 27, 2025
    I have a lot happening on my day to day so I don't have time to keep up with everything. I would like my CSR to summarize things more for me and help me use the tool better. Right now I feel like they jump on every opportunity to extend the tool so we use more of it, but I have the feeling we don't even use the full extent of what is available.
  • Director of IT
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Commercetools has played a pivotal role in driving the success of our Omnichannel initiatives.

    5.0
    Dec 8, 2025
    Commercetools serves as a strategic partner and has played a pivotal role in driving the success of our eCommerce initiatives. I want to emphasize their exceptional level of experience and expertise.
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commercetools Likes & Dislikes

Like

Underlaying technology, extensive and good quality documentation, mainly the TEAM

Like

The overall Service is great.

Like

Scalabiblity & Preformance, it consisently handles lrage amount of requests without any big issues. Well design core funtionality, the out of the box features are solid and thoughtfully built which means we do not need to design the architecture every time we want to build a new feature Everything is API first at is core which means that despite if we have lagacy systemts around it we can always integrate it in a stable core.

Dislike

I don't dislike anything

Dislike

1. User level access permissions like edit/delete/view is lacking in Merchant center. 2. Instead of developer creating custom objects, MC should be able to provide 3. Product search is missing eventhough complete catalog is present in CT. Has to integrate with thirdparty 4. API limits for bulk updates. 5 . Need to build custom UI for simple requirements. These should be readily available in MC. 6. No support or scripts provided for major breaking changes like moving attributes from variant level to product level

Dislike

Campaign management at scale, when running many concurrent campaigns across multiple countries the native tooling did not fully meet our needs, but we could solve it on our end thanks to the support, ready to use apps in the local markets, Making changes to an order before it's closed based on values that we hand on the order date can be complex and requires additonal logic out side commracetools