
These costs include but aren’t limited to: To get a true understanding of your total cost of ownership, and you will need to take into account both your first-year costs as well as your future costs. We’ll also make reference to some of the top eCommerce vendors on the market such as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, Adobe Commerce (Magento), and Commercetools to give you a better idea of where Elastic Path is positioned in comparison. However, to help you understand how your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) would compare to other vendors on the market, we will outline all the factors that you should be taking into consideration when evaluating your eCommerce solution. Only to find out, your “cheaper” solution is more expensive, because you were unaware of all of the additional cost you would incur.Īt Elastic Path, we happen to be one of the vendors without upfront pricing because our pricing is truly customized to a business’ needs. Sometimes we end up jumping for a cheaper priced solution and shying away from those vendors that don’t display their pricing on the website, because we think it’ll be too costly. But more often than not, the next question is “How much does it cost?” Ideally, we all want the best bang for our buck, but it’s easy to get distracted by the displayed pricing on a website, or the lack thereof. When it’s time to choose an eCommerce platform, everyone wants to know which solution will be the best one for their business.

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