Algolia and commercetools deliver even more, for less

Two world-class ecommerce platforms to power a shopping experience built for scale.

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Connect your search and ecommerce experience in minutes

Empower your developers & merchandisers to focus on what they do best– Designing unique and compelling shopping experiences. Not troubleshooting complex API’s or integration requirements. Install Algolia for commercetools in a few clicks, and with little to no developer resourcing required.

Real-time updates

Harness the power of real-time updates

As commerce and marketing professionals, we understand the importance of having the right content reaching the right customers at the right time. To achieve this relevancy, Algolia for commercetools enables automated product catalog updates and easy customization options to keep up with fast moving buyer trends.

keep control

Maintain full control with on-demand indexing

Typically merchants looking to make bulk updates would take hours to days to get their product catalog synchronized with their store experience. Now with Algolia for commercetools, these merchants can make one-off changes at any time, and in a matter of minutes.

Global platform

Sleep better at night knowing Algolia’s global platform has your back

Don’t waste valuable resources managing your own infrastructure– That’s our job. We will ensure 99.99% uptime, global scale, and enterprise-grade SLA’s, while you focus  on your core business and your customers.

Harry Rosen case study

A spotlight for Algolia + commercetools success stories: Harry Rosen

With Algolia, Luxury menswear retailer Harry Rosen went from a monolith to an agile microservices based architecture, helping them deliver an equally high level of customer experience online as in store

The result: Harry Rosen achieved a 360% increase in conversions, and 18% increase in average order value, and an overall 68% growth in transactions.

Algolia for commercetools FAQs

  • We also have a commercetools Accelerator option for more custom builds, which includes access to Algolia’s professional services team(s).

  • No, simply install the "Algolia for commercetools" application through the commercetools marketplace, and you will be able to create one during configuration.

  • Today, commercetools is the leader in headless commerce and does not provide a native frontend. To use Algolia Insights with "Algolia for commercetools," customers need to work with developers to integrate Algolia's InstantSearch into their front. To learn more about Algolia InstantSearch, please refer to our documentation.

  • On-demand indexing allows merchants to replace their product index in Algolia using the latest data in commercetools without impacting end users. Under the covers, Algolia will build a new index using updated data from commercetools and swap the old copy for the new index without impacting end users.

  • Presently,  "Algolia for commercetools" only supports commercetool's native inventory management capabilities.

  • Not yet, "Algolia for commercetools" works best with commercetool's integrated product information features.

  • Currently, "Algolia for commercetools" can only ingest data from the commercetools platform, But we have plans to introduce direct integrations with CMS providers like Contentful in the future.

  • Algolia for commercetools uses a pre-defined schema to make the processes of synchronizing and consuming data as easy as possible. If you've already gone live with Algolia and commercetools, we won't be able to manage your existing index layout and record schema.