Software Engineer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
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Jun 17, 2026
While I was working at my previous company, I used commercetools for about one year and built several projects with it. My main use case for commercetools is making an e-commerce website where the entire dataset and structure have been handled by commercetools. We built a full-stack e-commerce website using Next.js for the front end and Node.js for the back end, with commercetools as the database. All products, SKUs, product types, and everything have been stored inside commercetools and categorized in a way that allows for efficient fetching. We did not have to design our entire database from scratch. commercetools fits into my workflow by providing the best feature, which is the structure of the data. When calling commercetools API, the structure is straightforward. We do not have to iterate through nested loops inside the data. The data is simple and we can control what sort of data we want from commercetools. That is one of the features I appreciate the most. Additionally, commercetools provides hundreds of APIs that are very useful in cases where you need to print certain customer data or avoid manual joins. The particular information requested is provided by a separate API. Furthermore, the customizations available in commercetools through the Merchant Center allow you to use your own fields inside the Merchant Center and customize the entire platform. That is one of the great advantages and the key differentiator for using commercetools rather than other e-commerce platforms such as Magento or Shopify. commercetools is deployed in my organization on a public cloud. We purchased the Merchant Center hosted by commercetools itself. We do not need to host anything ourselves. We bought the cloud version, the public cloud version.
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
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Top 10
Jun 17, 2026
My main use case for commercetools is that I use it daily to integrate the e-commerce engine for a large website belonging to a major client. The integration works by using commercetools to manage the checkout, where we handle orders, carts, and promotions, including discounts, cart discounts, and discount codes. We use most, but not all, of the features that commercetools offers to support our e-commerce integration.
My main use case for commercetools is e-commerce transformation from legacy platforms to an e-commerce framework. A specific example of how I use commercetools for that transformation involves my client, who uses SAP for storing product information, catalog information, pricing, and inventory. The requirement was to establish a proper framework. commercetools helped set up that proper framework by providing APIs to prepare and create a catalog to import data from other systems into commercetools. With the help of import APIs, we prepared the catalog and imported products, catalog categories, pricing, and inventory. Another use case I work with involves a marketplace where we were selling products from different vendors using commercetools and then submitting the orders to the ERP system.
Commercetools offers a flexible, API-first eCommerce platform that caters to businesses seeking a scalable solution to manage their digital commerce operations efficiently.Commercetools is designed for dynamic businesses wanting to enhance their digital presence with a microservices-based architecture. With a focus on headless commerce, it gives businesses unparalleled flexibility to integrate and customize their digital commerce platforms. The platform enables businesses to decouple the...
While I was working at my previous company, I used commercetools for about one year and built several projects with it. My main use case for commercetools is making an e-commerce website where the entire dataset and structure have been handled by commercetools. We built a full-stack e-commerce website using Next.js for the front end and Node.js for the back end, with commercetools as the database. All products, SKUs, product types, and everything have been stored inside commercetools and categorized in a way that allows for efficient fetching. We did not have to design our entire database from scratch. commercetools fits into my workflow by providing the best feature, which is the structure of the data. When calling commercetools API, the structure is straightforward. We do not have to iterate through nested loops inside the data. The data is simple and we can control what sort of data we want from commercetools. That is one of the features I appreciate the most. Additionally, commercetools provides hundreds of APIs that are very useful in cases where you need to print certain customer data or avoid manual joins. The particular information requested is provided by a separate API. Furthermore, the customizations available in commercetools through the Merchant Center allow you to use your own fields inside the Merchant Center and customize the entire platform. That is one of the great advantages and the key differentiator for using commercetools rather than other e-commerce platforms such as Magento or Shopify. commercetools is deployed in my organization on a public cloud. We purchased the Merchant Center hosted by commercetools itself. We do not need to host anything ourselves. We bought the cloud version, the public cloud version.
My main use case for commercetools is that I use it daily to integrate the e-commerce engine for a large website belonging to a major client. The integration works by using commercetools to manage the checkout, where we handle orders, carts, and promotions, including discounts, cart discounts, and discount codes. We use most, but not all, of the features that commercetools offers to support our e-commerce integration.
My main use case for commercetools is e-commerce transformation from legacy platforms to an e-commerce framework. A specific example of how I use commercetools for that transformation involves my client, who uses SAP for storing product information, catalog information, pricing, and inventory. The requirement was to establish a proper framework. commercetools helped set up that proper framework by providing APIs to prepare and create a catalog to import data from other systems into commercetools. With the help of import APIs, we prepared the catalog and imported products, catalog categories, pricing, and inventory. Another use case I work with involves a marketplace where we were selling products from different vendors using commercetools and then submitting the orders to the ERP system.