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

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 Optimizely Configured Commerce when using CMS. Product data you manage in PIM will continue to feed into Optimizely Configured Commerce, but CMS will render it on your website.

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