
SWAROVSKI OPTIK
From legacy monolith to MACH commerce stack – 16 countries, 400,000+ pages, 99.99% uptime, internal IT involvement measured in hours per year.
commercetools is the leading enterprise commerce engine for organisations that want to truly own their digital commerce infrastructure. Powerful, demanding, and partner-dependent.

And Who It’s the Right Choice For
commercetools co-invented MACH architecture and headless commerce as concepts and remains the reference platform for composable commerce at enterprise level. The platform offers 300+ commerce APIs, fully decoupled frontend and backend layers, native multi-tenant architecture on Google Cloud and AWS, and genuine modularity: from product catalogue and pricing through cart and checkout to order management and promotions, every area can be independently configured, extended, and scaled.
commercetools is the right choice for organisations with complex B2C, D2C, or B2B commerce requirements, multiple markets or brands, high demands on performance and availability, and the will to genuinely own the commerce logic rather than submit to a vendor’s constraints.
For simpler projects with moderate requirements, Shopify or another platform is often more cost-efficient.
From D2C premium commerce to complex B2B catalogues and multi-brand setups.
Premium B2C and D2C storefronts for brands where quality, experience, and performance matter equally. commercetools delivers the commerce engine; Contentful or Storyblok delivers the content. The result is a seamless content-commerce platform. Reference: SWAROVSKI OPTIK.
commercetools for B2B: customer-specific price lists, company accounts, approval workflows, complex product catalogues, and order management. For B2B projects with high requirements where Shopify or a standard platform is not sufficient.
commercetools for international brands with multiple markets, currencies, languages, and tax logics. Or for corporate groups with multiple brands on shared commerce infrastructure.
commercetools as the commerce layer, deeply integrated with Contentful or Storyblok and Cloudinary. Three best-of-breed specialist systems – connected into a platform that feels seamless.
Migration from Magento, SAP Commerce, Hybris, or other platforms onto commercetools: product data, customer data, order history, and rebuilding the integration layer on a clean MACH architecture.
commercetools on AWS with global CDN, automatic scaling, 99.99% uptime – for brands where performance failures have real revenue costs. ISO 27001:2022 operations as standard.
Answers to the questions we hear most often.
commercetools is the right choice for organisations that need highly flexible, scalable commerce infrastructure and have the readiness to invest in a more demanding implementation.
Typical profiles: premium brands with D2C or B2C commerce across multiple countries, corporate groups with multiple brands on shared commerce infrastructure, and B2B organisations with complex product, pricing, and customer structures.
For projects with simpler requirements – clear product focus, manageable custom commerce logic – Shopify is more cost-efficient.

From the architecture decision to ongoing operations across multiple countries.
A commercetools implementation does not begin with configuration – it begins with the question of which parts of the commerce ecosystem actually belong in commercetools and what is better kept in specialist systems.
We define the commerce architecture: which product, variant, and pricing structures are needed, how multi-market and multi-currency is configured, how the relationship to CMS, DAM, and CRM is structured, and which parts of the business logic sit in commercetools itself versus in an integration layer.
This architecture workshop is the most valuable investment at the start of a commercetools project.

The SWAROVSKI OPTIK Platform is one of the largest and most technically demanding project in our portfolio – and the clearest proof of what a complete MACH implementation can deliver.

From legacy monolith to MACH commerce stack – 16 countries, 400,000+ pages, 99.99% uptime, internal IT involvement measured in hours per year.