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Ariel W.

Ecommerce Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/25/2020

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"Very Expensive, Built For Seasoned Developers Not Much Of A Community Be Prepared To Spend A Fortune"

0.5/5

What do you like best about Alokai?

The upsides are few. The only real one I can think of is it is decent in speed on mobile not anywhere near the lightning speeds they tout but it's ok. We have solved our checkout process that at least works properly on the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alokai?

Pretty much everything. Let's start with theming. The two main themes were created by people who either have never visited an ecommerce store before or they simply want to ensure that they can recharge the clients every time they implement very very very basic functionality. These include:

1. No zoom on images

2. Images don't load by SSR

3. SCHEMA set up is missing a lot of information

4. Meta Descriptions and Titles need to be manually fixed all the time.

5. Filters on category pages don't work properly they need to be cusotmized (To use OR between options in the filter and AND between filters)

6. Out of stock management needs major customization.

7. Load times are not great and your Google Page Speed Insights score without heavy customization will be very low on mobile.

8. Almost no payment gateways work out of the box.

And the list goes on and on. It is not user friendly unless you are a seasoned VueJs developer and the community so far is very much a proprietary one where there is no marketplace for modules and very very few decent repositories that work OOTB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Alokai:

I would recommend considering building a custom PWA using Magento PWA Studio or looking into React Storefront perhaps. There just really isn't a lot that is prebuilt and almost everything is custom from the bolts up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alokai solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had an M2 Store that was not doing well and was performing poorly on mobile and in general and we thought that a PWA would solve a lot of our issues such as bounce rates etc. We have realized no benefits whatsoever so far. In fact the current thinking is to go back either to M2 or look at PWA platforms that are more conveniently structured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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