Compare Key Features & Capabilities
Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service (SaaS commerce solution)
Adobe Commerce on Cloud (PaaS commerce solution)
Adobe Commerce Optimizer (SaaS shop front & merchandising solution that pairs with existing transaction engine)
Core commerce. Transaction processing with order, inventory, checkout, tax and delivering management.
Handled by existing solution
B2B commerce operations. Company accounts, company pricing, purchase approvals, quoting, requisition lists and payment on credit.
Handled by existing solution
Promotions. Merchant-defined promotional offers and coupons.
Handled by existing solution
Catalogue. Product information and category management for millions of SKUs.
Global expansion. Localised shop fronts managed from a single instance.
Merchandising. AI-powered search, product recommendations and category merchandising.
Data-powered personalisation. Data-sharing with Adobe Experience Cloud solutions to build customer profiles and enable re-engagement and personalisation strategies.
Digital Shop Front. High-performance shop front with pre-built commerce functionality to accelerate development.
Content authoring. Easy document-based authoring, visual shop front editing and GenAI-powered content creation tools.
Experimentation. Quick A/B testing to optimise engagement and conversion rates.
Commerce reports. Sales, product and customer tracking to run your business.
Handled by existing solution
Merchandising reports. Traffic, engagement and conversion tracking. Analytics for catalogue and merchandising tools.
Adobe Commerce Intelligence. Centralised cloud data warehouse and pre-built dashboards, drag-and-drop report building and data visualisation tools to analyse commerce and 3rd party data.
Add-on
Add-on
Not applicable
Asset management. Digital asset management with high-speed image and video delivery. Includes support for video renditions, image cropping and resizing and access to generative AI services.
Add-on
Payment Services. Credit, debit, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay and buy-now-pay later payment options.
Add-on
Add-on
Handled by existing solution
Order Management. Pre-built integration with IBM Sterling Order Management.
Add-on
Add-on
Not applicable
Extensibility. API-first, event driven
extensibility and integrations with App Builder, API Mesh, webhooks and events.
Integration starter kits for checkout, back-office, payments, tax and delivering integrations.
Not applicable
Data ingestion starter kits to onboard catalogue data from ecommerce, PIM or other backend systems.
Third-party apps. Easy access to a marketplace of additional functionality and connectors.
Hosting infrastructure. Secure, high-availability, global infrastructure and monitoring.
Multi-tenet cloud service (SaaS)
Single-tenet, dedicated infrastructure (PaaS)
Multi-tenet cloud service (SaaS)
Feature and Security Updates. Automatically deployed.
Compliance. Certified PCI Level 1 Solution Provider and SOC 2 compliant.
Handled by existing solution
HIPAA-ready with enhanced privacy, security and governance.
Add-on
24 x 7 support. Technical troubleshooting and issue resolution, plus access to guided learning resources.