Case Study: Eurail.com achieves dramatic reduction in maintenance costs and rapid API development with commercetools

How Eurail achieved a dramatic reduction in maintenance costs and the capability to easily develop new APIs

Eurail, the Utrecht‑based travel company that sells rail passes across 31 countries, needed a commerce transformation that kept its webshop user‑friendly for consumers, supported complex B2B partner interfaces, and could be implemented with zero site downtime. To meet those requirements it selected commercetools as the backend platform (paired with Adobe Experience Manager for frontend content) to provide an API‑first, headless commerce architecture.

commercetools implemented a hybrid content-and-commerce solution—commercetools powering commerce via Merchant Center, headless APIs and cloud scaling, with AEM handling content—enabling phased rollouts and real‑time updates. The result: maintenance costs “have sunk dramatically,” Eurail can quickly build new APIs and partner integrations, publish content across channels without IT assistance, and respond faster to market trends thanks to the commercetools platform.

Eurail.com

Jesse Wierenga

Scrum Master/Agile Coach