SAP Commerce Cloud is the backend that stays. The storefront is the layer to modernize.
Alokai is a frontend platform for SAP Commerce Cloud. Your catalog, order management, promotions, and pricing keep running where they are; the storefront your customers see is what changes. Teams still on Hybris-era storefronts land composable and AI-ready in one move, with the first storefront live in 3 to 6 months.
Still say "Hybris"? The backend aged fine. The storefront is what got old.
The Accelerator
Gen 1. The storefront most Hybris-era shops still run. Deprecated and frozen: no new features.
SAP Composable Storefront
Gen 2. Headless and composable, Angular-only. Where SAP's own path stops today.
AI-native storefront
Gen 3. Composable plus an AI layer, where SAP's API-only roadmap points. This is where Alokai lands you.
Each generation is a storefront change, not a replatform. SAP acquired hybris in 2013 and the platform grew into SAP Commerce Cloud; the backend has a supported upgrade path. Moving the storefront once, to the newest generation, costs the same migration as moving to the middle one.
Replace one layer. Keep everything that works.
Alokai is a frontend layer on the same SAP Commerce Cloud backend.
SmartEdit stays
Your business teams keep the authoring surface they know. Alokai renders what they publish.
OMS, pricing, and promotions stay
Order management, price rules, promotions, and personalization keep running in SAP Commerce Cloud, untouched.
The storefront changes
The layer your customers see becomes a storefront in React (Next.js) or Vue (Nuxt), on the same backend.
Market by market, no big-bang
A strangler-fig migration: the first storefront is live in 3 to 6 months, and the rollout proceeds country by country.
4,000 orders a day on SAP Commerce Cloud, through an Alokai storefront
Winparts, one of Europe's leading online auto-parts retailers, runs Alokai on top of SAP Commerce Cloud.
orders handled daily
average Lighthouse score across their sites
year-over-year growth expected
Frequently asked questions
Yes. SAP acquired hybris in 2013 and the platform became SAP Commerce Cloud. If your team still says Hybris, you are most likely on an older release with an Accelerator storefront. The backend has a supported upgrade path; the storefront is the layer that stopped moving.
No. Alokai is a frontend layer. Your catalog, promotion rules, OMS, pricing, personalization, and governance all stay inside SAP Commerce Cloud, and the backend upgrade path is a separate decision on its own timeline. The storefront migration does not wait for it.
The first storefront is live in 3 to 6 months, not 18 to 24. The rollout is strangler-fig: market by market, with the old storefront serving traffic until each market cuts over. No big-bang.
A storefront in React (Next.js) or Vue (Nuxt) on the same SAP Commerce Cloud backend. For the line-by-line comparison with SAP's own path, see SAP Composable Storefront (Spartacus) vs Alokai.
Yes. SmartEdit remains the authoring surface for your business teams. Alokai sits in front of it and renders what they publish.
See your SAP Commerce Cloud storefront on Alokai
Bring your stack and your questions. The demo runs on a real SAP Commerce Cloud integration.