Every quarter on the Accelerator, a competitor ships the feature you can't.
SAP has stopped developing the Commerce Accelerator. It's frozen, and whatever SAP builds next, AI included, only works on a headless storefront. You'll have to move eventually. Do it once, and go straight to composable and agentic instead of rebuilding again in two years.
Built for SAP. Designed for what comes next.
Alokai extends SAP Commerce Cloud with a composable frontend and an agentic commerce layer. Six reasons SAP merchants pick us.
Migrate once, not twice.
The Accelerator is frozen and every new SAP feature is API-only. The trap is paying for composable now and paying again for agentic in two years. We take you straight to Gen 3. Strangler-fig, country by country, no big-bang cutover.
TCO that compounds.
Three levers move together across a migration: technical cost, developer hours reclaimed from maintaining frozen code, and revenue from a storefront that actually converts.
Adaptive commerce with Compass.
Alokai Compass turns SAP Commerce Cloud into an adaptive commerce platform. Conversational product discovery. Ambient recommendations. AI conversational analytics in plain language.
Discoverable inside AI agents.
Your storefront becomes a surface for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Joule. Catalog and commerce logic exposed natively, so the next billion sessions find you.
Preserve SmartEdit, OMS, pricing.
Alokai is a frontend layer. Catalog, promotions, OMS, pricing, personalization, governance: all stay in SAP CC. Business teams keep their tools.
Storefronts in 3 to 6 months.
Not 18 to 24. Strangler-fig migration ships value monthly, not annually. From day one, manage your storefront AI-natively with Alokai Commerce Intelligence.
The real cost of staying.
Deprecated doesn't mean stable. It means you're paying, in cash and in ground lost.
The market isn't waiting.
Competitors are already headless, testing new vendors, features, and AI-native experiences. Your storefront can't follow, and every release cycle widens the gap.
Revenue leaks at the frontend.
Legacy performance costs conversion every day. On a frozen stack, the fix isn't a setting you can change. It's the architecture.
You're paying to stand still.
Maintaining deprecated code burns budget and developer hours on keeping the lights on, not on building what's next.
Innovation has a ceiling.
New SAP capabilities ship API-only. On the Accelerator, you can't reach them, AI features included.
Three generations of commerce frontend. One decision window.
Monolithic
Gen 1. Deprecated and frozen.
Composable
Gen 2. Agile and flexible.
Agentic
Gen 3. AI-native and adaptive.
The only AI-native storefront for SAP.
Alokai Compass is real intelligence threaded through every surface of your storefront: search, navigation, product pages, checkout. It finds what buyers can't articulate, unsticks them the moment they hesitate, and reshapes the interface in real time as the session unfolds. Two visitors, two different storefronts, both designed around what each buyer actually needs.
Compass acts as a personalization layer on top of your existing APIs, making SAP Commerce Cloud, your search index, and every other backend more powerful. Every user action is tracked and used to personalize the interface, the API calls behind it, and everything else the storefront serves.
Not a chat widget. Not a plugin. Built natively for SAP Commerce.
Modernize the experience layer. Keep everything else.
More than a decade of work is sitting inside your SAP Commerce Cloud instance. Catalog logic, promotion rules, SmartEdit content operations, OMS, personalization, pricing. None of it needs to move. Alokai sits in front of SAP CC through the Unified Data Layer and preserves SmartEdit as the authoring surface for business users. Your merchandisers keep the tools they know. Your developers get a modern frontend stack.
Works with your SAP CX stack and the composable ecosystem.
Alokai connects to SAP Commerce Cloud, S/4HANA, Engagement Cloud (Emarsys), Service Cloud, BTP, and Joule. Plus Contentful, Contentstack, Storyblok, Algolia, Coveo, Bloomreach, Cloudinary, and the rest of the composable ecosystem. Alokai Connect normalizes the integration surface so swapping a vendor is a configuration change, not a rebuild.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. In June 2026 SAP removed the fixed removal date for the deprecated Accelerator UI templates, and support continues with no set end date. But deprecated still means frozen: no new features, and SAP's roadmap, including AI, ships API-only to headless frontends. The deadline moved. The dead end didn't.
Yes. Alokai is a frontend layer. Your catalog, promotion rules, OMS, pricing, personalization, and governance all stay inside SAP Commerce Cloud. SmartEdit remains the authoring surface for your business teams. Alokai sits in front through the Unified Data Layer, so your developers get a modern frontend stack and your merchandisers don't change their tools. The full what-stays-what-changes picture is on the SAP Commerce Cloud page.
Yes, all three. Alokai is pre-integrated with SAP SmartEdit, so your business teams keep the tool they already know. It's also pre-integrated with modern headless CMSes like Contentful, Contentstack, and Storyblok, so you can pick the authoring experience that fits your team. Custom or in-house CMSes can be plugged in through Alokai Connect. Either way, your merchandisers edit the entire storefront without filing a developer ticket.
Three to six months for the first storefront in most cases, not 18 to 24. We use a strangler-fig pattern: ship value monthly, country by country, no big-bang risk. A typical SAP B2C migration we've delivered is live in production within four months.
Both work, and Alokai supports either path. Most SAP teams pick stages, because we specialize in derisking the rollout: start with one brand, one store, one geography, or even page by page, beginning with the most problematic parts for quick ROI. Our flexibility lets you address the most painful corners of your storefront first and roll out the rest later. Thanks to the Unified Data Layer, you can also swap backend systems like CMS or search later without rewriting any frontend code. If a big-bang cutover fits your timeline better, we will run it that way.
Yes, both. B2B Accelerator merchants get the full SAP Commerce Cloud B2B feature set (account hierarchies, contract pricing, replenishment, quote-to-cart) plus a modern frontend designed for procurement workflows. We have delivered B2B and B2C migrations on the same platform.
SAP's recommended path takes you from Gen 1 (monolithic Accelerator) to Gen 2 (composable). Alokai takes you from Gen 1 directly to Gen 3 (agentic): same migration effort, same budget cycle. Composable is a real improvement, but it's plumbing, not a destination. Agentic is the destination most enterprise SAP shops will need by 2028. For the frontend comparison on its own, see SAP Composable Storefront (Spartacus) vs Alokai.
The whole storefront becomes intelligent, not just a chatbot bolted onto the side. AI takes the wheel: subtly reshaping the interface as the session unfolds, personalizing every API request, surfacing voice or chat input when it's relevant, and rewriting product descriptions on the fly as Compass learns what each customer actually cares about. The storefront adapts to the buyer in real time instead of forcing every visitor through the same fixed template.
Map your migration path.
The migration is inevitable. Doing it twice isn't. Book a technical deep dive with an Alokai architect who has run this migration before. We will walk your current SAP CC instance, assess the leapfrog path, and give you a realistic timeline.