While Litium is ideal for mid-market to enterprise businesses seeking a deep-built-in CMS and campaign tooling alongside commerce, Centra shines for high-scale brands needing rapid, global omnichannel rollouts with continuous, versionless updates and real-time fulfillment from connected stores.
Centra
User-friendly interface and setup
Built-in B2B and DTC modules
Excellent support
Wholesale UI rigidity
Initial configuration can be “slightly more complex”
Video upload limitation
What is Centra
Centra is a cloud-native, API-first e-commerce platform designed primarily for fashion and lifestyle brands, offering both direct-to-consumer and wholesale commerce capabilities in a single, high-performance SaaS solution.
Usecases for Centra
Companies needing integrated B2B workflows—real-time inventory, bulk orders, returns and ERP sync—benefit from Centra’s unified module set.
Litium
A well-designed webshop UI that’s “easy to adjust” once you’re familiar with it
Bundles strong marketing and customer-engagement tools—campaigns, email, CMS
Solid commerce stack
PIM channel limitations
Integration hiccups. Compatibility issues can arise
Steep learning curve
What is Litium
Litium is a full-stack, cloud-native commerce suite—“Litium Commerce Cloud”—that bundles e-commerce, PIM, CMS, campaigns, personalization, and order management into one platform, with optional headless decoupling via GraphQL or REST APIs.
Usecases for Litium
B2B and manufacturing portals, as well as DTC and brand-focused growth.
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None
Partial
Integration
Centra
Litium
Crystallize
Tech
Architecture
Multi-tenant SaaS
Serverless multi-tenant SaaS
Event based architecture with horizontal scaling
Cloud infrastructure
Fastly CDN
Fastly CDN and Elasticsearch
AWS
API coverage
RESTful / GraphQL
Open REST / GraphQL
GraphQL
Built with
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Microsoft .NET 6 core backend, Angular-based back-office UI
TypeScript / GraphQL
Security features
Enterprise-grade security and compliance
ISO 27001-certified hosting / SAML/OAuth support
OAuth / JWT
Scalability
Maintenance
Managed
Managed
Managed
Customization level
Frontend integration
Framework-agnostic
Frontend agnostic
Frontend agnostic
AI/Machine learning
via open APIs
Via third-party
Via third-party
Multitenancy
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24/7 email and chat support / Slack / dedicated Customer Success Manager for enterprise
24/7 partner network / email helpdesk / Litium Dev Forum
Slack / Community / Dedicated account manager (Enterprise)
Documentation quality
Comprehensive developer docs, API reference, SDK guides and code samples
Comprehensive docs with tutorials, guides, API references
Comprehensive, well-organized
Additional resources
Blog, webinars, whitepapers and migration guides
Webinars / Livestreams / guides / case studies
Livestream videos / API Reference / Developer guides
Community
Community and forums
Private customer forum and Slack workspace
Active Litium Dev Forum for Q&A, ideas and bug reports
Growing and Active (Slack)
Professional training
Certification programs
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User-friendly interface and setup
Wholesale UI rigidity
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