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Is your eCommerce system ready for peak shopping events? 

Millions of shoppers expect fast, seamless and personalized experiences during seasonal sales, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But legacy systems often struggle under peak traffic, leading to downtime and lost revenue. Prepare your platform to scale, perform and deliver under pressure.

Engineered for peak performance and scale 

commercetools is an enterprise commerce platform built to handle peak demand, delivering speed, stability and flexibility when it matters most.

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Always-on performance during peak demand

Deliver fast, reliable shopping experiences even during peak traffic events — without disrupting the customer journey.

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Confidence at a global scale

Scale seamlessly across markets, channels and campaigns while maintaining stability and consistent performance.

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Faster innovation, fewer constraints

Empower teams to launch and iterate quickly without being blocked by infrastructure limitations or rigid system dependencies. 

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Built-in resilience for critical commerce moments

Stay operational when it matters most, with a platform designed to reduce risk, prevent downtime and protect revenue during peak events.

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 Let your teams build the future instead of fighting fires

The scalable commerce platform that stays resilient, responsive and ready under peak demand.

Unmatched uptime 

Maintain continuous availability during peak events to ensure stable operations and uninterrupted commerce experiences.

Maintain continuous availability during peak events to ensure stable operations and uninterrupted commerce experiences.

Proactive pre-scaling 

Our cloud-native infrastructure scales ahead of anticipated demand, absorbing traffic surges before they impact performance.

Our cloud-native infrastructure scales ahead of anticipated demand, absorbing traffic surges before they impact performance.

Agentic AI readiness

A future-ready architecture designed to support AI-driven commerce experiences and emerging buying journeys.

A future-ready architecture designed to support AI-driven commerce experiences and emerging buying journeys.

Continuous monitoring & response

24/7 infrastructure monitoring with rapid response capabilities to detect, diagnose and address issues in real time.

24/7 infrastructure monitoring with rapid response capabilities to detect, diagnose and address issues in real time.

Intelligent load management

The right technology foundation enables speed and resilience. Scalable, flexible architectures support rapid innovation today while ensuring your business remains adaptable for the future.

The right technology foundation enables speed and resilience. Scalable, flexible architectures support rapid innovation today while ensuring your business remains adaptable for the future.

Resilience testing 

Ongoing testing validates platform stability and performance, ensuring reliability during both peak events and everyday operations.

Ongoing testing validates platform stability and performance, ensuring reliability during both peak events and everyday operations.

 Proven performance at a global scale

Cyber Week 2025 results show what’s possible when commerce doesn’t break under pressure.

100%

Uptime throughout Cyber Week 2025. 

$4.5B

In total GMV processed, up to 48% year-over-year.

31M

orders processed during Cyber Week. 

6,800

Orders per minute handled at peak time.

Scalable commerce for every business model

Explore how commercetools powers both B2C and B2B commerce with the flexibility to scale, adapt, and perform under peak demand.

B2C Commerce

commercetools provides brands and retailers with a scalable, high-performance platform that withstands traffic peaks seamlessly.  

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B2B Commerce

commercetools enables scalable B2B eCommerce with support for account hierarchies, contract pricing, approvals and self-service purchasing.

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Leading enterprises tap into the scalable, always-on platform to monetize every big sales moment. 

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Discover how to make your next sales event a success

All the resources to prepare for Black Friday, Cyber Monday — and any other sales event. 

Frequently asked questions

Learn more about the mechanics of peak sales events. 

Can commercetools handle cross-channel promotions during Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

Yes. commercetools is designed to support omnichannel, enterprise-scale promotions during sales peak events, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

As a unified commerce platform, commercetools centralizes pricing, discount rules and promotional logic across all sales channels — whether it’s your web store, mobile app, marketplaces or physical retail locations. This ensures that offers are consistent, coherent and orchestrated across channels, helping deliver seamless omnichannel customer experiences.

Why does agentic commerce matter for BFCM?

Agentic commerce matters for Black Friday and Cyber Monday because it shifts a growing share of shopping from manual browsing to autonomous, AI-assisted purchasing. AI agents increasingly handle discovery, comparison and even transactions on behalf of shoppers, making them a high-impact channel during peak retail demand, where speed, scale and decision fatigue are critical.

This shift drives higher conversion rates through intent-based matching, enables “zero-click” purchasing by automating key shopping decisions like price and availability checks and makes structured, machine-readable product data essential for visibility in AI-driven journeys. It also helps scale customer support during peak periods by automating common requests such as order tracking and delivery updates in real time.

How does commercetools help enterprises manage inventory during high-demand shopping events?

As a unified commerce platform, commercetools provides real-time inventory visibility across all sales channels, including online stores, marketplaces and physical locations. This centralized approach ensures accurate stock levels are available at every touchpoint, reducing the risk of stockouts and enhancing the customer experience, also during peak demand. The platform supports dynamic inventory allocation and replenishment rules, enabling enterprises to automatically adjust stock levels in response to real-time demand. This flexibility ensures that popular items are prioritized and restocked promptly, maintaining product availability during peak periods.

How can enterprises boost customer loyalty and engagement during peak sales periods?

commercetools helps enterprises strengthen loyalty and engagement during high-demand events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday by unifying customer data across channels and enabling personalized experiences at scale. This allows businesses to deliver tailored rewards, relevant offers and consistent omnichannel interactions that encourage repeat purchases and long-term customer relationships. Key approaches include personalized rewards and offers, automated cart recovery, post-purchase engagement, gamified loyalty programs, seamless omnichannel consistency and real-time personalization powered by AI.

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