Optimizely Commerce Connect Features

Provides standard templates with an easy to use tool set to customize the templates to showcase the stores brand and optimize the users experience

Ability to display and manage photos, 3D views, videos etc for each product

Personalize the buyers experience by displaying the most relevant products to the consumer and increase conversions using past buyer behavior and merchant-driven rules. Tools may include such as cross-sell/up sell, promotions, recommendations, guided selling, etc

Contains features that allow administrators to set up promotions on site, provide time based discounts, and enter coupon codes.

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.

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

Provides tools to drive traffic to pages via organic search

Ability to add/update products, product pricing, product information and other content included on eCommerce site.

Ability to all users select options to configure the product or select product options. For example, color, size, etc.

Provides rich user experience to find products on site through site wide search, faceted navigation, product filtering and sorting

Provides functionality specific to selling intangible products such as: Subscriptions, Trials, Perpetual Licencing, Downloads, Free Trials, etc.

Includes features that optimize user check out experience such as Shopping carts and Single Click Checkout, order summaries, receipts.

Functionality that allows users to select shipping options based on price and delivery time. May integrate to 3rd Party shipping/fulfillment companies.

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.

Supports required payment methods including credit card processing, purchase orders, paypal, etc. Contains appropriate fraud management functionality.

Contains tools that enable administrators to manage placed orders to ensure all customer orders are processed correctly and on time.

Functionality to allow users to process returns/refunds either via self service or contacting customer service.

Displays inventory levels of products in real time. Displays inventory by location if required.

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.

Provides seamless approach to the consumer experience through all available shopping channels (Mobile, Social, Web, Point of Sale, catalog). Some times referred to Omni-Channel.

Features that enable customers to easily to shop for products using a mobile device.

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.

Provides features that enable customer services teams to interact with customers. Features may include chat and and phone support.

Enable customers to locate and navigate to physical locations by zip code, city or GPS

Integrates/Syncs your product catalog to major on line retailers such as Amazon, Ebay, etc. to make it easy to administer selling products via 3rd party channels

Includes features that that are valuable to B2B transactions. For example partner management, contract pricing, invoicing, product entitlement, contract management etc.

System provides well documented API's that can be used to integrate to any 3rd Party or internal system.

Product provides tools to customize web store front, business process, etc. to meet unique business needs.

Is easy to integrate to or has pre-packaged integrations to a wide variety of leading add on tools/software.

Enables customers to update their own user information, settings and preferences.

Provides standard and ad-hoc reporting ability to meet business requirements

Software provides appropriate tools and certifications to protect against fraud and malicious attacks

Features that enable creation and maintenance of micro sites, sub-sites using the same instance of the software.

Provides ability to control editing rights by product category, geography etc.

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

Provides features that enable business transactions throughout the world. Typical features are multi-language, multi-currency and taxation

Enables store or site to provide the same user experience in all browsers and browser versions.

Software performs well and runs with minimal unscheduled downtime

The system has a large and interactive community of users.

Pagination, page headers and titles, meta tags and URL structure all contribute well to site SEO.

Able to build out different and multiple taxonomies to store and index content.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Provides features to allow scaling for large organizations or an expansive web presence.

Enables users to view and interact with the same content in multiple languages.

Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.

Drafting and publishing content is intuitive and non-technical.

Formatting content is straight-forward and painless.

Keep track of incrementally changing versions of the same content.

Available gadgets and modules suit the needs of your site and are easily incorperated onto the page.

Can easily institute an approval routing process between authors and editors.

Easily schedule content to be published at a certain time and in a certain order.

System allows the storage and management of rich media files.

Able to search your content based on keyword, metadata, tags, etc.

Content--both published and yet-to-be published--can be intuitively managed, edited, tagged, approved, and stored.

The software provides a wide breadth of free or purchasable site templates that are attractive and suited to your webpages' needs.

Effective mobile templates are available and easily customizable.

Consistent design elements across sites (including personalized brand components) unites webpages into a coherent online presence.

The visual appearance of webpages can be easily customized to fit your site’s needs.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives