Elastic Suite Features
Merchandising/Marketing (5)
Storefront Design Tools
Provides standard templates with an easy to use tool set to customize the templates to showcase the stores brand and optimize the users experience
Product Visualization
Ability to display and manage photos, 3D views, videos etc for each product
Promotions and Discounts
Contains features that allow administrators to set up promotions on site, provide time based discounts, and enter coupon codes.
Shopping Cart Abandonment
Provide tools to help convert abandoned carts into sales. Saves items in shopping cart if a users does not complete the purchase. Allows users to continue order process in a future session. Emails users to remind them they have items in their cart.
Product Reviews
Ability to display reviews and enable users to write reviews for each product. Integrations to review syndication software to include most recent reviews for products
Product Catalog (3)
Content Management
Ability to add/update products, product pricing, product information and other content included on eCommerce site.
Product Configuration
Ability to all users select options to configure the product or select product options. For example, color, size, etc.
Product Search and Filtering
Provides rich user experience to find products on site through site wide search, faceted navigation, product filtering and sorting
Order Process (7)
Checkout Process
Includes features that optimize user check out experience such as Shopping carts and Single Click Checkout, order summaries, receipts.
Tax Display and Processing
Displays appropriate tax to user based on local laws. Contains functionality to process tax in back end systems. May integrate to 3rd Party tax solutions.
Payment Processing
Supports required payment methods including credit card processing, purchase orders, paypal, etc. Contains appropriate fraud management functionality.
Order Management
Contains tools that enable administrators to manage placed orders to ensure all customer orders are processed correctly and on time.
Returns / Refunds
Functionality to allow users to process returns/refunds either via self service or contacting customer service.
Inventory Management
Displays inventory levels of products in real time. Displays inventory by location if required.
Multi-Channel Fulfillment
Contains distributed order management functionality so that an order can be fulfilled from a warehouse, a store, a vendor drop ship or an in store pick up.
Multi-Channel Support (5)
Mobile
Features that enable customers to easily to shop for products using a mobile device.
Social Commerce
Features that enable customers to easily shop for products on popular social platforms. May provide standard integrations or tools that build the social store on the platform.
Customer Service
Provides features that enable customer services teams to interact with customers. Features may include chat and and phone support.
Store Locator
Enable customers to locate and navigate to physical locations by zip code, city or GPS
B2B
Includes features that that are valuable to B2B transactions. For example partner management, contract pricing, invoicing, product entitlement, contract management etc.
Platform (11)
APIs
System provides well documented API's that can be used to integrate to any 3rd Party or internal system.
Customization
Product provides tools to customize web store front, business process, etc. to meet unique business needs.
Integrations to Add-on Tools
Is easy to integrate to or has pre-packaged integrations to a wide variety of leading add on tools/software.
User Management
Enables customers to update their own user information, settings and preferences.
Reporting / Analytics
Provides standard and ad-hoc reporting ability to meet business requirements
Security
Software provides appropriate tools and certifications to protect against fraud and malicious attacks
Admin Access Rights
Provides ability to control editing rights by product category, geography etc.
Test-to-Product Migration
Functionality that enables administrators to test changes to products, store design, work flows etc in a test environment and schedule the changes to be migrated to the production version of the site
Internationalization
Provides features that enable business transactions throughout the world. Typical features are multi-language, multi-currency and taxation
Cross Browser Support
Enables store or site to provide the same user experience in all browsers and browser versions.
Performance and Reliability
Software performs well and runs with minimal unscheduled downtime
Analytics (2)
Reports & Analytics
The ability to analyze and visually represent relevant data collected from an e-commerce store and e-merchandising tool.
Customer Data
Data collected from customers that can be used to better refine merchandising efforts to entice similar customers.
Merchandising (4)
Product Search
A search function to help customers easily find products in an online store.
Product Display
Tools to optimize how product images are represented on the site.
Media File Storage
Tools to store and organize product images, videos, and 3D renderings.
Web Content Management
Tools to optimize and organize product descriptions and other content published to an online store.
Administration (2)
Integrations
The ability to integrate with a variety of e-commerce software in order to share data and functionality.
Dashboard
A means to display relevant reports and other data in one, easily accessible place.
Headless Commerce (3)
REST APIs
Provide APIs that allow for interaction with RESTful web services
Data Orchestration
Capture and manage data from multiple sources and syncronize it with the front end and back end
Extensibility
Include prebuilt integrations with multiple systems such as ERP and CRM
Agentic AI - E-Commerce Platforms (5)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
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