Manage website elements with Configured Commerce and CMS

Decide whether to use Optimizely Configured Commerce or CMS to manage different website elements

With two such powerful tools, there are a lot of features and functionality at your disposal. Use this table as a reference to know which application to use to manage different elements of your website.

Element	Product	Description	Link
Navigation	CMS 12	Link navigation items to Optimizely Configured Commerce content or CMS 12 content.	Navigation (CMS 12)
Website user authentication	Configured Commerce	Create and manage website users.	Add website users (Optimizely Configured Commerce)
Admin user authentication	Both	Create admin users in both systems.	Add admin users (CMS 12) Add admin users (Configured Commerce)
Product catalog and categories	Configured Commerce	Create and manage products and categories.	Manage products (Configured Commerce) Manage categories (Configured Commerce)
Search	Both	Manage the search indexes in each system separately. Build the website’s search results page to leverage the appropriate search index result.	Search index (CMS 12) Search Index (Configured Commerce)
Content editing	CMS 12	On-page editing is available for CMS-related content and static pages.	Content editing (CMS 12)
Content creation	CMS 12	Create content using pages or blocks.	Create content (CMS 12)
Collaboration and workflows	Both	CMS 12 manages content-related approval workflows. Configured Commerce manages order workflows for budgets, RFQs, etc.	Content approval (CMS 12) Order workflows (Configured Commerce)
Content personalization	CMS 12	Use audiences to personalize CMS content.	Audiences (CMS 12)
Segmentation	Both	Manage segments independently in Configured Commerce and CMS 12, but apply both to a page to leverage each one's benefits. Use Configured Commerce customer segments for product content or restrictions for showing products in widgets. Use CMS 12 to personalize non-product content for a specific visitor group	Customer segments (Configured Commerce) Audiences (CMS 12)

Optimizely Configured Commerce Apps

Mobile App

Optimizely build the Optimizely Configured Commerce Mobile app to interact with Optimizely Configured Commerce only, not CMS, so the app will function as it does today, and:

All mobile content will come from the Optimizely Configured Commerce environment
The Mobile SDK enables a broader use of the app from various tools, like CMS

PIM

You do not need to make any changes to the PIM integration with Configured Commerce when using CMS 12. Product data you manage in PIM will continue to feed into Configured Commerce, but CMS 12 will render it on your website.

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