The Right Approach for Your Online Business
Having the right tech stack in place can be a game changer for any business - it can provide you with an agility to have an edge over the competition in the marketplace, serve your consumers better, and help you grow in revenue. Talking about the eCommerce space, the right type of solution for your business can be one of the most important decisions you will make, and it can be a challenging task as the options available are vastly different. Some prefer the traditional legacy to configure, while others prefer the services-based option that you can build to your specific needs. The answer to which one would be better, however depends on your business needs and varies business to business.
In this article, we’ll give you a brief overview of what it means to work with a configurable commerce platform versus building with a customizable commerce platform, key criteria for choosing one and how Misiki plays a role in helping you to achieve your ideal state.
A configurable commerce platform provides the brands with a bundled set of functionality to drive their online commerce business. All of these functionality are usually developed and deployed by a single vendor and packaged together as a single unit, for brands to leverage its pre-built/out-of-the-box functionality to get up and running quickly.
Traditional eCommerce platforms will have an end to end solution that include features from storefronts, content management, and search to shopping carts, order management and shipping and fulfillment.
However, the more customizations and complex requirements your brand has to address, the more these benefits dissipate. They provide eCommerce teams with fields and templates that allow them to customize and configure their eCommerce experiences to a certain degree within their guidelines. However, trying to veer from the predefined box they have outlined for you, your eCommerce teams are forced to spend more time and money configuring your platform to your unique requirements. So how do you know if this option will be right for you?
You must check for the following before considering a configurable platform:
If at least 50% of these considerations resonate with you then a configurable platform may be a good fit. If you want a better idea of whether or not a configurable platform may be right for your business, take our platform evaluation quizand get expert advice from the Misiki team.
A customizable commerce platform provides the best-in-class services to deliver all the functionality you would have previously gotten exclusively from your out-of-the-box eCommerce platform.It provides all the capabilities commonly included in a traditional configurable eCommerce platform, such as order management, inventory management etc.
Modern customizable solutions include vendors such as Misiki, Commercetools, VTEX and Fabric. This means that while you can achieve an end to end solution with these platforms you and your team and/or hired agency will be responsible for building your unique solution.
You must check for the following before considering a customizable ecommerce platform.
If at least 50% of these considerations resonate with you then a services-based solution may be a good fit. If you want a better idea of whether or not a services-based solution may be right for your business, take our platform evaluation quizand get expert advice from the Misiki team.
Misiki leverages a customizable approach to empower brands to build their Composable Commerce solutions. Composable Commerce is an approach that enables business and tech teams to bring their brand’s unique digital vision to life by launching and continuously optimizing digital commerce experiences that leverage multiple best-of-breed vendors composed together into a complete, business ready solution.
Therefore, when you choose to work with Misiki, you no longer have to compromise between the speed of configurable, out-of-the-box platforms and complexity of customizable solutions. This is all made possible by 3 main components of the Misiki Offering:
We truly hope this helped you to better understand how to choose between configuring an out-of-the-box platform and building a customizable commerce solution. As always if you have any questions or just want to learn more about how Misiki can help you to achieve your business goals, feel free to reach out to us!
