VTEX Commerce Cloud: Next Generation Commerce Platform
Written by Pooja Naik
Senior Business AnalystIntroduction
To sustain today’s environment, merchants need to think about modern digital commerce challenges to attract customers with a one-stop-shop destination. VTEX is the only commerce solution to go beyond traditional commerce by providing B2B/B2C commerce, marketplace, and OMS in one platform by going that extra mile for flexible technology design and rapid evolution.
VTEX is built on Microservices, API-first, Cloud, headless architecture (MACH-L) and low code development platform, which provides a lightning tailor-made experience to launch your eCommerce site and scale up your platform with less cost.
Architecture
Simplified Web Development with VTEX IO
VTEX IO is based on a cloud-native low code development platform. VTEX IO offers fast-evolving and safe frameworks along with PWA-ready web stores, custom admin interfaces and Kubernetes back-end integrations. It supports highly productive technologies like TypeScript, React, GraphQL, .NET and Node. VTEX IO provides a store framework in react, native eCommerce components in Json where you can create your customized storefront. With VTEX IO, you don’t need to run any of your code locally. All your local changes get synched up automatically with the cloud development environment. IO automatically recognizes new code added in Github and makes it available to the end-user in case of updates. It also supports revert to the older version if needed again.
You can publish your app and see the changes within minutes.
Highlights
- Unified commerce platform
- Easy collaboration with sales and channel partners through the marketplace
- Manage your orders and inventory with in-house OMS
- Data orchestration through multiple channels
- Serverless development platform VTEX IO (low code platform)
- Master Data API will help you connect with any external systems like PIM, CRM, OMS tools
- Distributed Order Management
- API-first and cloud-based solution for commerce
- Smart Checkout
- No platform upgrade required
- Inbuilt AI personalization
- Subscription models: flexibility to get access to API Comprehensive subscription solution.
- GDPR compliant cookie consent management
- Multi-tenant SAAS architecture
Fastest Growing E-Commerce Platform with MACH-L
As per IDC report and vendor assessment, Vtex commerce cloud is the fastest growing eCommerce platform based on its latest technology stack upfront, core strategy in commerce, frictionless commerce and many more. Check out the chart below for more clarifications:
Platform at a Glance
Merchandising / Marketing
Storefront Design Tools
Product Visualization
Promotions and Discounts
Abandoned Cart Tools
Recommendations / Personalization
Product Reviews
SEO
Apps Installations
Product Content Management
Catalogue Management
Product subscription
Pricing and segmentation
Workflow management
Products configuration
Product Search and Filtering
Intangible Products
Order Management
50 +Shipping Options
100+ payment integration
Consignment and order statuses
Built in Payment integrations
Tax integrations
Cross-Channel Fulfilment
Returns / Refunds
Inventory Management
Multi/Single/Fast checkout process
Multi-Channel Support
Unified Customer Experience
Mobile & Desktop
Social Commerce
Email
Store
3rd-Party Store Integration
EDI & Punchout
B2B Features
Web and mobile
Field sales
Marketplace
Internet of things
Marketplace and Dropship
Automatic category mapping, logs, and suggestions
Reach upto 2,500+ sellers
Multi-currency, multi-language utilization
Omnichannel Commerce
Unified Inventory and catalogue
Unified pricing and promotions
Integrated Checkout across various channels
Integrated, persistent and shareable cart
Optimised fulfilment
Platform
APIs
Customization
Integrations to Add-on Tools
User Management
Reporting / Analytics
Admin Access Rights
Test-to-Product Migration
Internationalization
Cross-Browser Support
Security
Multi-Site Management
Performance and Reliability
Our Stepwise Project Development Process
Royal Cyber team will help you with all your integration, implementation, and migration needs. Our team will help you set up your VTEX eCommerce site within two to four weeks by using our crisp project development plan.
Platform Comparison
| VTEX | Magento | SAP Commerce Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform Type | SAAS based | PAAS based | CCV2/On premise |
| Licencing | VTEX licence fees starts with as low as $250 + 3% Revenue Sharing. | Magento Community is free. Magento Enterprise license fees starts with $20,000+ per year range. | High entry costs yet partially capitalized expense. |
| Support | Supports in providing both their platform, and their support. | Pretty basic support, is not nearly as involved with how you are using that software. | Support is provided after raising an incident. |
| Time to Launch | Needs less technical setup. | Needs various setup and testing with a hosting account. | Takes a lot of time to implement a new environment (9+ months). |
| Maintenance | Continuous testing and build push of core software updates behind the scenes. | Needs the application of security patches, bug fixes, and other updates. | High infrastructure and support staff costs, High upgrade costs. |
| Migration | Easy migration to VTEX. | Complex migration to Magento. | Complex migration to SAP commerce cloud. |
Royal Cyber as your Integration Partner
Royal Cyber is a premium VTEX solution partner that has been designing unique and engaging digital commerce experiences. Royal Cyber has certified VTEX Resources that can help you move to VTEX with smooth integration. For more on this, you can email us at [email protected] or visit www.royalcyber.com/technologies/vtex/
