Adobe Commerce vs Sana Commerce comparison

Adobe Commerce

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84% willing to recommend

Sana Commerce

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Adobe Commerce and Sana Commerce based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two eCommerce Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Commerce

Ranking in eCommerce Platforms

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

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Sana Commerce

Ranking in eCommerce Platforms

13th

Average Rating

8.2

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the eCommerce Platforms category, the mindshare of Adobe Commerce is 14.3%, up from 10.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sana Commerce is 0.3%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Dennis Tran

Sales Manager at Magenest

Feb 29, 2024

Build a tailor-made website with a user-friendly interface

Adobe Commerce is a robust e-commerce platform. It stands alongside industry leaders like Salesforce Commerce Cloud, offering a hybrid API model. It is competitively priced among its peers along with flexibility as an open-source platform. Additionally, Adobe Commerce provides AI features, including a tool called Insight for AI-driven product recommendations. Many clients continue to leverage this AI capability to enhance their e-commerce experience, making it a popular choice among businesses. It has an open architecture, user-friendly interface, and integration with other e-commerce tools. This adaptability extends to engagement-focused tools and services, ensuring a comprehensive and enriched customer experience on Adobe Commerce-powered websites.

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PratikPatel

Director of Operations / Project Manager at Symbex

Nov 4, 2021

Provides seamless integration with Microsoft Dynamics as well as ease of administration

Our business is unique in the sense that we don't authorize or charge the credit card upfront. We only authorize the card when the order has been packed and is ready to ship. And we charge the credit card when an order is actually shipped out and we've invoiced it. Also, not all our customers are credit card customers; some are on terms. We had to do some customization so that the system would understand that if a customer is on terms, we don't need to worry about the credit card. And if someone is a credit card customer, we don't authorize the charge until later, after we've invoiced. It would help if there were a way to configure the solution to change whether or not the system processes credit card information immediately, based on the customer's terms. It would also help if we could configure at what stage the credit card is authorized and charged.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Magento is very flexible, and it's one of the biggest e-commerce platforms."

"We have the ability to resolve service issues since Magento enables us to invest more time in dealing with custom requirements."

"The solution's valuable features are the presentation layout and ease of use. When we have new people joining the team, it is simple for them to get involved very quickly."

"The platform allows us to easily integrate with service vendors, such as delivery services and payment systems."

"As compared to platforms such as ATG or Commerce Cloud, its interface is easy to use. Magento also provides seamless administration for business users. You can also integrate an OMS to an extent. You don't need to have a dedicated OMS. You can leverage the out-of-the-box features of Magento, which is very valuable for startups. Other platforms, such as Commerce Cloud, don't have an OMS, and you have to have your own OMS solution."

"Magento has changed over the years, but one of the most interesting aspects is that it gets the job done, and a vast community of experts is knowledgeable about the solution."

"The customization capabilities of Adobe Commerce are great."

"On the plus side, when you build everything from scratch in Magento, you can do magic with it."

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"The big benefit with Sana is our ability to interface with Microsoft Dynamics."

"We use Sana Commerce with Microsoft Dynamics on the back end and the native ERP integration works well. The fact that no third-party integrations are needed between our Sana Commerce web store and Microsoft Dynamics is important. It's one less thing to worry about when it comes to troubleshooting."

"I found it surprisingly easy from both the admin side and the customer side. The admin side has a limited set of features, but they are very well explained. They are very simple to understand. It is very easy to find out what every feature does. It is not really complicated. Sana provides an online university where you can learn everything that you need about it. When we needed to check a new feature or validate how something works, we found solid online information on their website. If there was anything that we couldn't find, or if we really couldn't understand how exactly something was working, their support was always very quick. So, it is quite easy."

"This product is highly customizable. We use the standard system but we have extended it quite a bit."

"The most valuable feature is the direct ERP integration, as it allows us to provide product availability and specific pricing in real-time. Customers can also order themselves in real-time."

Cons

"I am still playing around and trying to catch up with the latest version to understand all the features, but I do feel that its CMS can be much more streamlined. They provide a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor, which many customers prefer, but based on the implementations that I have done for more than seven years, I have seen that many times, it is run by the marketing team, and they don't find it very comfortable to use. They feel uncomfortable managing and changing the content. As a business user, you need to have at least basic knowledge of HTML, which you cannot expect from all marketing teams. Some companies or organizations have that competency, but many organizations, especially in the Middle East, have a very small team, so it becomes quite difficult for them. This is a common challenge that I have seen across the platforms. Magento is better and easier than Oracle Commerce Cloud, but Shopify is much easier than Magento. A layman or my 10-year-old kid can go ahead and set up a store in Shopify in probably 45 minutes, which is not the case with Magento. Elasticsearch has really been a pain. It takes a toll on the performance. Starting with version 2.4, Magento requires Elasticsearch, which has been causing a lot of serious performance issues. We had a client in the US who was running a promo, and they lost a subsequent number of orders over one and a half hours. They were on the enterprise platform, not open-source. The team had to open a ticket with Magento. Its performance needs to be upgraded, or some kind of guidelines have to be provided for the setup. It looks like even Magento has no clue. When you go through the answers given in the online community, it seems that in spite of having the hardware configurations that they suggest, it is not performing at the optimal level. It should also have a better way to measure performance. Performance measuring has to be much easier. Many times, we see CPU utilization going up and down. We see spikes without any reason. Therefore, we need a better performance management system."

"The data analysis could be improved. The data that you receive whenever you go into the backend of the platform for the analysis is very simple and basic, it could be a little more sophisticated in order to be closer to the client. The data analysis and intelligence of the platform could be better."

"The limited availability of experienced developers can make the product costly to maintain."

"More technical knowledge is required to keep a Magento website running smoothly compared to many other platforms like OpenCart."

"The performance is a bottleneck in Magento and there is a lot of room for improvement in this regard."

"Should have a way to communicate properly with the team that builds the platform"

"The industry has evolved, and the main focus is composable solutions because of which now SAP and Magento are forced to tackle various aspects of commerce, including commerce tools and pricing strategies, among other things."

"The hardware requirements of the tool should be made better, as it is a solution that is very heavy on the servers, and it makes it expensive to host many servers."

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"One problem that we encounter is that it's difficult to upgrade as a result of making a large number of customer-specific adaptations."

"The performance can be improved. Sometimes, the system is really slow because of the ERP integration. I'm not sure whether this is a problem with Sana Commerce or the ERP system but overall, it could be faster. When it comes to usability, if it takes too much time to load, then it's not the best."

"I'd rate their customer service a nine out of 10. I think they're in demand and a little overloaded on work. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time for them to get to our work."

"There could also be more support about everything that is related to website management, which is not strictly related to the B2B tool. These are the things like knowing about GDPR regulations, knowing about digital consents, and in general, all the laws that go with having a website. Sometimes, we would have liked more support in that area."

"We also didn't realize this going into it, but there is an RQS (requirements gathering) phase, which takes about a month. After that, there is a development phase that takes another month. There are also testing and go-live. If you want to introduce any new features or functionality, it's at least a three to four-month process, possibly more, because of the way their structure works. Everything has to be customized. They are resource-challenged as well."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution increased after Adobe acquired Magento. At this point, we know the price of Magento and SAP, and while they may have lower entry tickets, they are ultimately comparable."

"The product offers an open-source version, which is free. There are licensing options for Adobe Commerce's cloud version."

"The cost of implementation is cheap compared to other solutions."

"Many implementations were open-source. We also had a couple of enterprise-level implementations, but I didn't have visibility on the licensing cost."

"We transitioned from the platform's commercial license to the open-source version, which helped optimize costs without affecting our sales."

"This solution is cheaper than some of its competitors. However, the price depends on which country you are in. In some countries, such as Greece or some Southeastern European countries, the price for the client can be expensive."

"When we got version 9.2, it was a good price. Everything is moving to the subscription-based cloud model, and that's probably a little high when you look at the lifetime cost."

"Sana's pricing is fair. It could be more competitive. It's not so much the licensing cost, it's the additional development."

"Support costs are in addition to the standard licensing fees, and they vary per month, based on how much we use them. It is not very expensive."

"They have a policy of a price per legal entity. So, if you are a company that operates in one country, that is, if you're just an American company, or you're just a Spanish company or just a British company, then that probably makes sense. We are a global company, and we have operations in 20 to 30 different countries. So, we are interested in implementing Sana in potentially 20 to 30 countries. Right now, the pricing model of Sana has a limitation. They are almost asking for the same price for the new country when in many cases, a new country will just be a new small rollout. That's because it is the same solution that gets implemented everywhere. So, to me, it is not the same price if you are maintaining 10 Sanas that are looking exactly the same and are working exactly the same in 10 different countries. To me, these should not cost 10 times more than one. They don't yet have a good grasp of how to manage global companies like ours. That is something we are talking to them about, and we are in discussions with them about. So, hopefully, they will learn."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

73%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

20%

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Magento?

The customization capabilities of Adobe Commerce are great.

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What needs improvement with Magento?

The limited availability of experienced developers can make the product costly to maintain.

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What is your primary use case for Magento?

At our company, we use Adobe Commerce to support a couple of system integrations. The solution is used for real-time data fetching from the back-end of SAP ERP solution. Our organization deploys Ad...

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Comparisons

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Compared 35% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Overview

Adobe Commerce offers IT teams a versatile solution to effortlessly launch personalized commerce experiences while ensuring security and speed, all without starting from scratch. It provides a solid foundation of commerce functionality that allows businesses to swiftly enter the market with confidence. With pre-configured composable services, businesses can easily deploy and integrate these services to enhance their commerce foundation. The platform also supports the creation and integration of secure and scalable applications that extend native capabilities and seamlessly integrate with third-party solutions in a serverless PCI-compliant environment. Thanks to App Builder tools, customization becomes more accessible, reducing the overall cost of ownership.

For commerce teams, Adobe Commerce provides a dynamic platform that adapts as customer needs evolve. It enables omnichannel personalization through commerce data, delivering personalized content, promotions, recommendations, and site search through advanced AI and machine learning. This translates to an increased reach to new markets, brands, or business models. The platform empowers users with business-specific, user-friendly tools infused with AI capabilities, thereby enhancing marketing and merchandising efforts. Moreover, businesses can expand their commerce capabilities further by choosing from a vast array of free and premium apps and extensions available in the Commerce Marketplace, covering everything from back-office integrations to customer experience solutions, making it a comprehensive and flexible commerce solution.

Sana Commerce is a SaaS-based B2B e-commerce solution that integrates seamlessly into your tech stack using agile cloud software to enable a stellar e-commerce web store with guaranteed uptime and minimal maintenance.

How? By making your SAP or Microsoft Dynamics ERP and e-commerce work as one. SCC harnesses the power of your ERP to create an e-commerce platform that automates tedious business processes and delights consumers with easy-to-use functionality. It eliminates the system silos, unnecessary complexities and compromises caused by mainstream e-commerce solutions. SCC drives growth and future proofs your business model by facilitating a smooth omnichannel order process without hurdles.

Sana Commerce is a certified SAP and Microsoft Gold partner, backed by a strong global partner network and recognized by leading industry experts.

Want to know if we can meet your B2B needs? Contact us for a personalized demo.

Sample Customers

Magento has over 200,000 customers worldwide, including Bjorn Borg, Heath Ceramics, Harper's Bazaar, Kidstuff, International Military Antiques, Gifts That Gives, and Rovio Entertainment Ltd.

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