Plytix vs Akeneo Product Cloud Comparison

- It has very good UX. - Cloud based - Great support (English and Spanish) - Easy setup process

We are just waiting for API integrations regarding the data sync between plytix and our backoffice.

Muchas Gracias Elias! Thank you so much for your wonderful review! It's a pleasure to be able to provide you with a system where you can centrally manage your product data, and with new improvements and features being developed everyday, the API will be ready in no time! This is just the beginning of your exciting journey with Plytix. Saludos, Plytix.

1 easibility of the software 2: Speed and overview of most channel availability

Compatibility and limitations on design product brochures

Plytix is simple to use and configure and I've been most pleased with the support. Any issue I've had has always been resolved straight-away.

Plytix is not an enterprise-level tool. So, at this point its void of some of the workflow and data standardization tools one might expect from a typical PIM. But it fills the need for reasonable product management at a fair price.

PIM helps us to manage product information and cut down on the manual process we need to do especially when we need to integrate the product information into our other platforms.

We have needs to separate our products by packaging into the product level. Therefore, we need to have a distinct function so that when we want to sync to other platforms can only sync as a master product. Now we need to sync to an intermediate platform doing the distinct function before syncing to the end target platform.

Hi Hendri, awesome to read that plytix has helped to make your day to day work easier and that you enjoyed our sales and support process :) thanks for sharing your use case of the management of separate packaging for your products, we will keep this in mind for further product improvements

I like that PIM is the kind of product that can be adapted to meet the needs of my business and that it organizes the information for each product quickly and easily.

Plytix lacks crucial NEXT BUTTONS that make moving from one product to the next in a group a process that can either be a. smooth and easy or b. a repetitive task of jumping back and forth in the same two pages repeatedly.

User friendly interface makes it easy to house all of our product information, from technical specifications, to marketing content, files and assets and product grouping. The portal is great for sharing with our external parties.

It can be easy to override information and lose data sometimes. The changelog helps here, although you cannot reverse a bulk action.

Hi Jessica, thank you for your feedback. Great to hear that it's easy for you to store, manage and share your product information with plytix :)

High flexibility in customizing fields, multiple images, media, etc... Easy to import/export big quantities of data Super supportive and knowledgeable support team

Difficult to manage the Product/Variant duality and ensure consistency for the shared fields Quite complicated adding a lot of fields in the Feeds (unlike Catalogs which is very easy) Feeds/Catalogs could be merged, allowing for both file export and web visualization It would be nice to have preconfigured ecommerce flows (e.g. Shopify, Amazon, etc...)

- Ease of use - Can set up and operate without an IT degree! - Flexibility - You can change data quickly using bulk edits / uploads. But can adapt the data held to your requirements. - Structure - Well structured system that makes sense but also the structure allows a high degree of flexibility Overall an easy to set up and use system that makes managing large product catalogues a breeze. Beats a spreadsheet any day. Now an integral part of our business now and in the future. Thank you to plytix for delivering a great product.

- Sometimes doesn't work well with firefox browser, so I have had to switch to chrome. When i had an issue i contacted the service team and they dealt with it quickly telling me what i needed to do.

The centralization of all product information into a single, easily maintainable, data-source that is both extremely flexible and very robust. The ease with which I'm able to then live-feed our product data to internal and external systems is also remarkable. Over all, I like best that Plytix simplified my life. We now have an "authoritative source" for all product data and it's portable to wherever we need it. A very impressive platform.

Developers in the USA that have experience with Plytix is somewhat limited, as compared to something large like SAP Product Content Hub. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that the Plytix PIM is intuitive enough that the learning curve is very short.

Hey Robert! Thank you so much for your honest review and feedback. We truly enjoy working with customers like yourself and are so happy hear the way Plytix has benefited your company!

As a company, the main use and best benefit is to have the unlimited filter options and combinations. What allows us to generate reports.

It does not have pre-established report options or automatic reports, which indicate the % of completion of a product.

Thanks a lot, Sandra for your nice words. We are really happy to have you as a customer About automatic Reports, we will share that feedback with the Product team so they can consider it as a new feature ;)

The ease of setting up products and pulling it into different customers product sheet formats. Saves so much time.

There is a lot of information you take in and so many pages, it can be a bit daunting to use if you don't use it regularly.

Hi Sidnie, we're glad to read that plytix has helped you save time getting your work done. If you experience any issues navigating in the system, our team is always happy to help you out, just give us a shout :)

The speed and ease I can edit / amend product data and how this feeds in to the channel uploads. Means our product information on our websites are always up to date. I also use brand portals frequently and it makes customers lives so much easier which in turn helps me.

There's nothing I strongly dislike about Plytix, there are just a few more things that I would like. I would prefer if the e-catalogues and product sheets could be a bit more editable, at the minute the sections you can edit are just a bit rigid.

Hi Susie, great to hear that Plytix has made editing and sharing your product information more efficient and helped to improve the quality of your product data! We'd be curious to see which sections exactly you would like to see improved in the e-catalogs, feel free to share further feedback with our CS team so that we can consider your feedback :)

Plytix has been a great system to allow us to consolidate all of our product data. We run mulitple websites and supply feeds for numerous resellers. We constantly found updating information painful with everything disconnected. Plytix fixed this with all data now stored within and feeding out to our various systems.

The api could be a little easier to use. Have struggled to get image urls to export with bulk product data.

Hi Daniel, thanks a million for your honest feedback! :) We're happy to hear that consolidating your data in Plytix has made managing your product information less painful, and more enjoyable. Our team is more than happy to help you out with any issues you might run into with our API

Onboarding is easy. I can think of something and then navigate how to do it in plytix with ease. The whole PIM idea is new to our company, so the onboarding piece is very important. Other departments only loosely buy into the idea and won't sit through training sessions. The software is so common sense they can hit the ground running.Oh and the flexibilities of the filters is great too.

Brand portal customisation is still not quite right.

Hi Byron, thank you so much for your detailed review, it makes us really happy to read that you enjoyed our onboarding process and using our tool. We'd love to hear what customisations you are looking for exactly in the brand portals for future improvements. Thanks! :)

The speed and efficiency in which we are able to upload, modify, access and share all of our product information has been very beneficial.

Direct ERP integration would be a helpful. Options to customize the look and feel of the catalogs falls a bit short.

Hey Daniel, we really appreciate your feedback. It's great to hear Plytix is making your work easier. We're developing our system for new features and improvements continuously, and we hope you are enjoying our latest Catalog launch. Thank you always for your patience!

The flexibility of the platformThe support, always helpful and efficientEasy to use and understandGood integration with marketplaces and other platforms

The limitation in the Free version (without channels)Some adjustments needed in user managementThe product date sheets could be more customizable and dynamic.

Hi Igor, thank you for your review! Great to read about all the things you like about plytix as a tool and the interactions with the people behind it :) we will take your feedback into consideration for any future improvements

Simple interface, no overly complicated setting. Attribute grouping allows you to differentiate product groups. Excellent customer service using live chat from within the platform.

Some features that competitors have are missing such as hiding attributes for certain products and using workflows.

We have a large amount of products that we often need to redo, add to, change. Plytix makes this task extremely easy and straightforward. It's a terrific tool, and the customer support is amazing.

I have not used Plytix for anything but product descriptions, and those are super easy with Plytix. I would like to see more font choices, however.

Hi Lisa, happy to hear that plytix has made managing your products a breeze and that you had an amazing experience with our team so far. :) Speaking of product descriptions, we now have an AI functionality available to help you out with that, check it out on our website or reach out to our team to learn more about it :)

It’s is great to store all of your product information and when you have many items it makes it great to have it all in one place

Some of the set up can be tedious when you have many items

Hi Erika, your kind review definitely brought a smile to our Customer Success team! Thank you so much for your feedback.

Plytix is an amazing tool that is helping us change our information and data paradigm at Roots Radicals. We were looking for the best tool for this purpose and Plytix is certainly proving to be what we need.

Some features, like the creation of PDF data sheets per product used to exist but no longer are available. I'm looking forward to when they activate them again.

Thank you Nicolás for your review, it's great to hear that Plytix is the tool you have been looking for! 🤩 About the PDF sheets: this feature is going through an update to make them even more user-friendly and will be available soon! I will have your CS Manager reach out to you to give you more information about it and to come up with a temporary solution

This solution has saved me so much time on content creation and getting my Product data out on my channels. What I like best though, is how user friendly it is - I'm not very technical at all. The catalogs let me share my Product information with my Agents abroad and I'm gonna share them on my website next. I don't know what I would do without the PIM system now.

No cons were added to this review

How it synchronizes across platforms! Solid one source of truth!

I’m not as technically experienced so I’m learning how to use it still.

thank you Veronica for your review, it's great to hear how Plytix has helped improve to work more efficiently for your and your whole team! :) If you are running into any issues, you are always more than welcome to reach out to your CS Manager 🙌

The ease of use, data entry and open database structure is great. Plytix Index is best suited for PIM beginners as well as advanced users. Of course not everything is perfect but the Plytix team is very customer oriented and takes customer needs into account when developing the software.

A PIM must fulfill the following four tasks for me: - input - Processing - Analysis - output The first three makes index good, the output still has improvement potential. The feed export in .CSV, .XML and .XLSX is great but the catalog PDF export function is still not sufficient today. The customer must be able to create his own PDF catalog or Index must offer at least a selection of templates. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

Thank you for your very honest and fair review Albert! We hope to be feature complete soon enough for you to be able to create those beautiful data sheets - thank you every day for your patience, and for putting your faith in us! It's a pleasure to know we are helping you get your product information to the market faster. Bests, Plytix

Everything is simple and clear to navigate through. I can easily search for a product, download all images, and other documents with a simple click, and never have to worry about not finding what I'm looking for.

The font is kind of boring to look at but all else is superb.

Hey Juan! Plytix's goal has always been to provide an intuitive and easy-to-use platform so it's great to hear that from you! Regarding the fonts, do you mean the Plytix PIM's default font or the font selection we provide to build and customize catalogs? Thank you for your honest feedback and we are looking forward to hearing from you

It's really easy to use and customer service/support is by far the best I have ever experienced in any industry. If your a beginner or Pro you'll be able to use this software at ease. The software it's self is really adaptable and no same portal would be the same. It's enabled us to centralise our data and organise all of our files. It's helped us with data, customer service (We've set up customer portals), staff knowledge and much more. Best of all it's saved us time and given our staff better/easier product knowledge.

Not a con as such - but feeds/channels work better with some competitor software. For example on a competitor's platform you can upload their data sheet and map the data quicker. You have a drag and drop system to match the data attributes.

Hi Michael, Thanks a million for your nice words! We are really happy about having you as part of the Plytix family. Pilar and the team send their best regards. We look forward to your success!