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What do you like best about Crystallize?

Crystallize has obstructed the way I handle my inventory. The interface is less user friendly making it hectic to navigate and locate what I need in no time. The nin customizable templates have been cumbersome for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

The real time inventory updates are needed to ensure accuracy and prevent any stock shortages. The customer support team is not always there to assist and provide solutions. Crystallize has its merits; it falls short when it comes to customization options, which limits its adaptability to business requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

The lack of integrations with third party tools makes data management and analysis quite tedious. It would be better if the user interface had a design as navigating through the platform is confusing for newcomers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Crystallize Overview

What is Crystallize?

🌏🚀 Headless commerce and product universe for storytellers The complete product story engine. Tell the whole story. Rich and engaging product storytelling across any and all customer touchpoints. Craft engaging product information and marketing content centrally, and syndicate to each of your channels in harmony. All packaged in a delightful editorial experience powered by a super fast GraphQL API and global CDN 🏗Build custom content models and topic maps to serve relatable and engaging content. Create dynamic experiences and promote a common story across each channel. 👯 
Build better experiences with your team, all on the same page. Bridge the gap between engineering and marketing teams, and work lockstep on a delightful platform built for teamwork. 📚 Organize and distribute your rich product and marketing content, and tell the whole story. ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️🌤 📢Crystallize publishes unified product information and merchandising to channels including: 👉🏽 Storefronts 👉🏽 PWA’s (progressive web app) 👉🏽 In-store kiosks 👉🏽 Digital product catalogs 👉🏽 Syndication platforms. 🗂 Semantic PIM foundation Without a holistic link between product and rich marketing content, a PIM is no better than a spreadsheet. Our Semantic PIM contextualizes products and marketing content, and it is at the heart of product storytelling. 🐙 Multi-Channel Wonder Build Topic Maps, Shapes, and Grids for smarter merchandising, and contextualize your product story across every channel. Use one of our tailored boilerplates to massively cut your time-to-market for new channels. Front-end freedom and backend logistics built for warp-speed modeling. ⚡️ Warp-speed syndication Our Graph-QL foundation is built around high-speed delivery of semantically-organized product and marketing data. Our Graph-QL API serves incredible amounts of product data with minimal calls, ensuring snappy user experiences, higher conversion rates for your webshop and channels, with top Lighthouse Scores 💯 ⏱ Rapid Prototyping Sell your products where your customers are. Launch a tailor-made eCommerce frontend in the channel of your choice. Create dynamic experiences and promote a common story on each channel, or create bespoke data channels to suit your syndication goals. 🖼 Frontend Agnostic We party with all frontends, no discrimination. The perfect fit for any modern JAMstack frontends 📐 Boilerplates - Use one of our tailored boilerplates to massively cut your time-to-market. Front-end freedom and back-end commerce & logistics, built for warp-speed delivery and modeling. 👉🏽 GraphQL Service API 🏗 https://crystallize.com/learn/open-source/boilerplates/service-api 👉🏽 VueJS + NuxtJS eCommerce Boilerplate 🏗 https://crystallize.com/learn/open-source/boilerplates/vuejs-nuxtjs 🔍 https://nuxt.superfast.shop/ 👉🏽 Gatsby Boilerplate for React Ecommerce 🏗 https://crystallize.com/learn/open-source/boilerplates/react-gatsby 🔍 https://gatsby.superfast.shop/ 👉🏽 React Native eCommerce Boilerplate 🏗 https://crystallize.com/learn/open-source/boilerplates/react-native-ecommerce 🔍 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EtK1j6EFY 👉🏽 Next.js eCommerce Boilerplate 🏗 https://crystallize.com/learn/open-source/boilerplates/react-nextjs 🔍 https://furniture.superfast.shop/ 👉🏽 Long form storytelling eCommerce in NextJS 🏗 https://crystallize.com/learn/open-source/boilerplates/storytelling-ecommerce 🔍 https://story.superfast.shop/stories/coffee-from-seed-to-cup ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️🌤 🔮 Native GraphQL APIsR Build quickly from scratch using low-latency API. Query all the data you need in one API roundtrip. Power all of your webshops, websites or apps with the web’s fastest tech to showcase the beauty of your product storytelling. 🏥 Docs & Support We’re the hand-holding type. Get help fast from our Slack Community, or browse our guides and documentation. You’ll see our devotion to the developer experience in everything we do. Check out our Slack community for support 📽 Rich Media Mastery Engaging online shopping experiences are built on rich content. Beautiful pictures, easy to understand text, great navigation, and taxonomy. Build your product shapes as you want your customers to experience them. Native support for PDF, images, GIF, rich text, and videos. Our global CDN network scales & transcodes images for snappy delivery for shopping delight. 💸 Subscription & recurring billing Build recurring revenue into your business model from the foundation. Sell physical and digital products on usage based services like data, storage or call minutes. Include tiers of usage and charge for over usage. Sell access to digital products, and build tailor made fulfilment pipelines with webhooks to manage your digital products. No shipping required. Do it all with our Subscription Commerce 🍱 Semantic product organization Starting with a configurable environment called a Shape, Crystallize unifies your product specifications and powers your semantic relationships. Build your product story in our Rich Text Editor. Use Topic Maps and Grids to power smarter merchandising and dynamic page building. Product data and Marketing content, in complete harmony 💅 Beautiful content modeling Crystallize adds a relational layer to your products and marketing content, and structural features like Grids, Shapes, Chunks, and Topic Maps help you create entire channels from the data found within your PIM. Use one of our tailored boilerplates to massively cut your time-to-market. Front-end beauty and backend logistics, built for warp-speed modeling ☕️ Editorial UI for creatives Our editorial UI is a familiar face, with smart features to speed up your collaborative workflow. Craft engaging and rich content with a marketers sensibility, and empower your storytellers. 🪐 Omni-channel by design Sell your products where your customers are. Launch a tailor-made eCommerce frontend in the channel of your choice. Create dynamic experiences and promote a common story on each channel, or create bespoke data channels to suit your syndication goals. 🌍 Localization Craft bespoke messaging and marketing for any number of languages, natively from our Editorial UI. Collaborate seamlessly on international product content & marketing. A world is waiting to hear your product story, told in their language. 📦 Order Fulfillment Scale your logistics as easily as you grow sales. Our order management system (OMS) helps you craft complex order fulfillment workflows. Build for both in-house and 3PL fulfillment, and capable elegant front & backend solutions to complex order ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️🌤 Pretty much everything under the hood: 🪄 Multichannel ✓ Bring your own frontend ✓ Payment and checkout ✓ Order management ✓ Fulfilment pipelines ✓ Integrate with anything ⏳ Subscription Commerce ✓ Digital subscriptions ✓ Recurring goods ✓ Metered subscriptions ✓ Pricing ✓ Custom subscription plans 📈 Sales reporting ✓ Sales insights ✓ Product analysis ✓ Multi currency reporting ✓ Cut and paste export 🗄 Product Information Management ✓ Physical products ✓ Digital products ✓ Product variants ✓ Price variants ✓ Rich marketing content ✓ Rich taxonomies 📺 Rich Content Management ✓ Headless ✓ Multilingual content ✓ Custom content models ✓ Topic maps ✓ Product Grid View ✓ Semantic relations ✓ Rich text ✓ Video ✓ Images ⚡️ Super fast GraphQL API ✓ Great developer experience ✓ Catalogue API ✓ Search API ✓ Orders API ✓ Reporting API ✓ Webhooks ✓ Authentication ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️🌤 Getting started with Crystallize should be fast, easy and cost efficient. Our principle is that your success is our success: ⚡️ One headless API service with all the core features you need to start and scale an online business 🧑🏽‍💻 Simple & fast APIs, well documented, free open source boiler plates for great developer experience, nice 🌈 No feature limits, even in the free version 👯 No user limits, invite your whole team 🌏 No language limits, multilingual eCommerce for everyone 💰 No charge until you have a successful traffic over generous included quotas

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Crystallize is a blazing fast headless commerce service with a GraphQL based PIM so you can deliver a unique customer experience. Tailor make your e-commerce experience. Stand out, get noticed and ultimately sell more stuff. You build the customer experience, we handle the rest. Product information management for the API economy.


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Year Founded
2017
HQ Location
Skien, Telemark
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Recent Crystallize Reviews

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Stephan S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
2.0 out of 5
"Highly Priced software"
It's a product that has completely transformed my skincare routine. The formula works like magic. It rejuvenates my skin leaving it feeling moistur...
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Kimberly C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
2.0 out of 5
"Needs flexibility and ease of use"
Crystallize has obstructed the way I handle my inventory. The interface is less user friendly making it hectic to navigate and locate what I need i...
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Luis D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
2.0 out of 5
"Unable to adapt to changing market trends"
The quality of their products is obstructive. They provide a limited range of options. Their customer service is nor always helpful and friendly. T...
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Crystallize Media

Crystallize Demo - Product Data Modeling
Build Topic Maps, Shapes, and Grids for smarter merchandising, and contextualize your product story across every channel. Drag and drop rich media including documents, images, and videos into shapes. Our global CDN network helps stream hi-def content, and automatically scales & transcodes im...
Crystallize Demo - Semantic PIM
Without a holistic link between product and rich marketing content, a PIM is no better than a spreadsheet. Our Semantic PIM contextualizes products and marketing content at the heart of product storytelling. This adds a relational layer to your products and marketing content, helping you share th...
Crystallize Demo - Subscription  Commerce
Build recurring revenue into your business model from the foundation. Sell physical and digital products on usage based services like data, storage or call minutes. Include tiers of usage and charge for over usage. Sell access to digital products, and build tailor made fulfillment pipelines with ...
Crystallize Demo - Developer Delight
Keeping your best developer talent takes a lot. Our combination of cutting-edge speed & technologies, super-responsive support channels, and tested compatibility with best-in-breed toolsets keep our developers quick, creative, and happy.
Crystallize Demo - Editorial UI for creatives.
Our editorial UI is a familiar face, with smart features to speed up your collaborative workflow. Craft engaging and rich content with a marketers sensibility, and empower your storytellers.
Crystallize Demo - Order Flow Orchestration
Scale your logistics brilliantly as your sales grow. Our order management system (OMS) helps you craft specialized order fulfillment workflows. Power both in-house and 3PL fulfillment with an elegant backend orchestrating powerful automations.
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SS
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Higher Education
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Crystallize?

It's a product that has completely transformed my skincare routine. The formula works like magic. It rejuvenates my skin leaving it feeling moisturized and incredibly soft. Its user interface is a bit difficult to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

When it comes to customer support Crystallize need some improvement. Their response times are slow. Their availability is limited. In terms of customization options the platform provide features to increase the user experience and allow for greater personalization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

The pricing structure is confusing and costly which make it less accessible for businesses.For my business Crystallize is unable to solved the problems of finding an e commerce platform that caters to my requirements. Its headless approach allows for integration with systems while granting me the freedom to customize my online store according to my needs. This not saves my time and resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Oil & Energy
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What do you like best about Crystallize?

I abCrystallize needs to prioritize an approach. It requires solutions, for integrations and implementations. Dealing with the varying quality of 3rd party APIs pose a problems. There are some room for improvement in integrations and development templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

There is a learning curve for users accustomed to CMS/PIM/eCommerce systems; the possibilities for unique data modelling are limited. It would be better if the GraphQL APIs were consolidated. Thats a minor inconvenience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

One drawback of Crystallize is its options for customizing front end experiences, which is constraining for businesses seeking a visual identity. Achieving tailor made designs requires access to front end developers, which incur expenses and consume time resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LD
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Retail
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Crystallize?

The quality of their products is obstructive. They provide a limited range of options. Their customer service is nor always helpful and friendly. The attention to detail and the beautiful packaging is needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

One major drawback of Crystallize is its customization options and lack of flexibility when it comes to features and integrations. Whenever I need anything crystal related Crystallize does not provide this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

The platforms rigid structure makes it difficult to adapt it according to business needs. The absence of documentation and inadequate customer support is frustrating when troubleshooting or resolving issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crystallize?

What we like best about crystallizing is the easy management of all of our product data and content, the rich, intuitive way of structuring content relationships, and how different the data model is assembled graphically. THE SPEED and setting us up to tailor rich user experiences moving forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

The downsides are the same things that make it great. The whole ecosystem being an exclusively headless first system makes all integrations and implementations require highly customized solutions. This drew us to a headless system in the first place due to our business logic requirements. Still, the variability in quality and documentation of 3rd party APIs makes this a part of the process that needs considerable attention and monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves our basic PIM, CMS and order management needs, but it excels in speed, availability and experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Senior Consultant (Product Owner at BOS)
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What do you like best about Crystallize?

One of the major benefits of Crystallize is the data modelling part. The fundaments of CMS and PIM is modelling data, making it accessible in the front-end. The way Crystallize has handled this is awesome - flexible and making it extremely easy for developers, content editors and information architects to collaborate on the data structure. Another benefit is in fact that developers love to work with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

If you are familiar with traditional CMS/PIM/eCommerce products the learning curve could be quite steep. You have to think in a very different way, as the product is very flexible and there are many opportunities when it comes to the data modelling part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

The combination of CMS, PIM and eCommerce is great. It's a big advantage that we can work in one system that can handle all three.

The APIs are extremely fast and easy to work with, which our developers love. This is an important reason for us choosing the product.

Crystallize is a modern headless system that provides the flexibility we need when working with a complex product data structure. It gives us the agility to build new channels and services in a speed we would not have been able to do with traditional monolith systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ecommerce Strategist
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What do you like best about Crystallize?

Fast and responsive backend UI. Quick APIs and fail-proof features. It is probably one of the best CMSs out there and combining that with products and orders, makes the platform extremely potent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

Graphql APIs could be consolidated a bit - currently they are separated between the Catalogue and Search which could make sense to consolidate.

I am also missing a pure integration API - the ones they have is fit for purpose but this is an area for improvement if you want to optimize your integrations with the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

They provide the tool sets for creating inspirational sites. Any marketing team, developer or e-commerce manager will be very excited to onboard on Crystallize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crystallize?

Modern technology, feature-rich, cost-efficient and organization is extremely supportive with technical issues or questions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

Nothing in particular. Some parts might need further developments, like order management in tenants, but nothing that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

Used for several webshops both for B2B and B2C. Easy to get up and running with the boilerplates that they offering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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IT technical lead
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What do you like best about Crystallize?

The frontend is beautiful, and headless is a huge move forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

Nothing to dislike, could use additional integrations and development templates (vitejs). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Crystallize:

Do it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

Attempting to accept donations as a charity through merchandise sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eirik U.
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What do you like best about Crystallize?

When we market and sell bicycles online we have to use very content rich product descriptions including HD videos, images and rich text. With Crystallize we have the combination of easy management of rich product content connected with a smooth shopping experience for the customer. As Crystallize delivers all product information with a GraphQL API it is very easy for our frontend developers to fully customize the shopping experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

The reporting in Crystallize is currently baisc, however the export enables us to get all the information in e.g. Excel when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Crystallize:

Crystallize is ideal ecommerce back-end when you want to build a tailor made frontend experiencec in e.g. React. This means that you have to have access to front-end developers to build your tailor made frontend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to market and sell our range of bicycles and parts online. We also use Crystallize to drive the core of our content strategy with stories and videos supporting the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Crystallize?

Crystallize allows us to sell both subscriptions for our online magazine and print magazine in addition to being able to sell physical products as one-offs like our books. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crystallize?

Currently the reporting in Crystallize is quite basic. But they have export to other systems like Excel so we can easily get the numbers we are looking for. I know this is something that is being improved in the platform soon though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Crystallize:

Build a POC on Crystallize and you will quickly see if it can handle your business. It is very quick to develop on and easily customisable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Crystallize solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a media house and a publisher. We sell magazines as a subscription and we have subscriptions for our online magazine. We also sell products that are related to our magazine which we sell in our webshop. All powered by Crystallize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.