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With reimagined catalog management, dizzyingly complex workarounds are a thing of the past.
Launch a complete composable commerce solution within weeks with business-ready solutions from Elastic Path.
Deploy best-of-breed solutions using your chosen partners and save 4x on the cost of future changes.
Traditional platforms like Salesforce are more expensive and rigid by nature, meaning that making changes often gets complicated, time-consuming, and costly. As you’re thinking about your commerce goals for the next 3-5 years, you will inevitably need to consider cost, which varies over time and differs significantly for Elastic Path and Salesforce. Check out our Guide to understanding total cost of ownership for more in-depth information about how Elastic Path solutions can help you save 4x more than legacy platform users.
With a modern composable commerce approach like Elastic Path, you can save on the costs of hiring and onboarding specialized front-end developers. Without the constraint of having to hire Salesforce specialists, your team can save money for additional headcount in other areas of your business or reallocate to more innovative projects.
Brands are increasingly adopting best-of-breed third-party vendors that offer superior functionality for various components like search, personalization, etc. With the rigid, tightly coupled nature of Salesforce, that often means paying double for a third-party search provider as there is no way to pay for the out-of-the-box capabilities that you use from Salesforce. On the other hand, the loosely coupled architecture of composable commerce solutions, like Elastic Path, allows rapid, easy changes, and the adoption of any tech you need.
Rather than spinning up costly and time-consuming development projects to work around the rigidity of Salesforce Commerce Cloud, lower your Total Cost of Ownership with a platform that provides the capabilities to deliver on your merchandising team needs with ease. With Salesforce Commerce Cloud, customizing a portion of the commerce stack will mean that these changes must be tested across the entire stack, slowing down releases and introducing significant risk to any customizations. With a composable commerce solution, each new addition can be integrated without affecting the existing core commerce stack. If you don’t need to optimize your eCommerce experience or experiment with external, best-of-breed functionality or quickly launch new experiences,like mobile-self-checkout or IoT Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud may be a fit for you.
Elastic Path and Salesforce Commerce Cloud are both popular commerce providers. But retailers, manufacturers, and distributors should know the differences between Elastic Path and SFCC.
Elastic Path is composable and API-first, letting brands integrate best-of-breed solutions with full flexibility. Salesforce Commerce Cloud’s rigid architecture limits customization and agility.
Elastic Path Product Experience Manager powers dynamic catalogs, personalized pricing, and regional assortments. SFCC supports catalogs, but customization requires heavy dev work.
Elastic Path natively supports B2B, B2C, D2C, B2B2C, and marketplaces without extra instances. SFCC splits B2B and B2C into separate products, needing dual implementations and added licensing costs.
Elastic Path offers fully customizable checkout with dynamic pricing, promotions, and discounts. SFCC’s rigid checkout demands Salesforce expertise and costly integrations for advanced customization.
Elastic Path is fully headless, enabling any front-end experience. SFCC has headless options, but ties into Salesforce’s proprietary architecture, making integrations and changes more complex.
Elastic Path scales effortlessly for high-traffic, global brands. SFCC depends on Salesforce’s infrastructure, which can become costly and challenging to optimize for performance at a global scale.
Elastic Path offers flexible pricing with no hidden fees or forced integrations. SFCC carries high licensing costs, platform fees, and charges for features like AI, driving up total cost of ownership.
Elastic Path lets businesses manage multiple storefronts from one backend, with regional pricing and multi-brand support. SFCC often needs separate instances and costly hacks for multi-region setups.
Elastic Path lets brands own their commerce stack, integrating with any service while keeping full control. SFCC locks businesses into their ecosystem, making migration and integrations difficult.
Hear first-hand why Serena & Lily, a luxury and design-driven home interior brand made the decision to Unplatform from their monolithic solution to a composable commerce approach with Elastic Path.
Many SFCC users face challenges with scalability, customization limits, and high development costs. While a full replatform to another monolith (like Shopify Plus or BigCommerce) can be risky and disruptive, a gradual shift to composable commerce solution like Elastic Path offers a smarter alternative.
Elastic Path is a good fit if:
Salesforce is a good fit if:
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