On the other hand, we found its report selection to be weak, consisting of only four simple reports focused on sales activity. You can run Commerce Court as an add-on to Microsoft Site Server 3.0 or alone with Microsoft IIS 4.0. As an addition to Site Server, Commerce Court's value is limited. Commerce Court is primarily designed to work with an ISP's e-commerce hosting service, but you can use it to set up shop on your own servers with a little extra work. Installing the system is simple after you change the settings to work with your local host.
Documentation is fair but largely unnecessary.
Overall, Commerce Court is a great way for smaller shops to ease their way into e-commerce. Reigning big shot Thanks to a ubiquitous advertising campaign, IBM's Net. Commerce is one of the best-known electronic storefront packages in the industry. However, our testing of Net. Commerce Pro 3.1.1 suggests that IBM would be better served by putting money into enhancing its product rather than advertising.