Ecommerce intermediate
Open Source Ecommerce Is Not Free: A Practical Total-Cost Model
A six-category framework for pricing self-hosted ecommerce ownership costs: licence, hosting, extensions, maintenance, security and staffing.
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11 guides tagged ecommerce.
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- Ecommerce intermediate
Saleor vs Vendure: GraphQL Is the Similarity, Not the Decision
Saleor and Vendure both use GraphQL, but Channel currency limits, extension models, licences and B2B pricing set them apart.
- Ecommerce intermediate
Sharetribe in 2026: Excellent for Marketplace Validation, but Where Is the Ceiling?
Sharetribe speeds up rental, booking and service marketplace validation, but retail catalogues, multi-currency pricing and partial refunds hit a hard SaaS ceiling.
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Sharetribe vs CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Marketplace SaaS or Packaged Ownership?
Sharetribe's subscription SaaS backend versus CS-Cart Multi-Vendor's owned PHP source, compared on launch speed, transaction limits, ownership and operations.
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Spryker vs commercetools: Suite Modularity vs API Product
Feature checklists for Spryker vs commercetools miss the real split: licence and code access, integration limits, and operating model, not identical checkmarks.
- Ecommerce intermediate
Sylius in 2026: A Commerce Framework, Not a Ready-Made Store
Sylius's feature table hides where the free core stops and Sylius Plus's GMV pricing starts: verified module boundaries, architecture and a five-question PoC checklist.
- Ecommerce intermediate
Sylius vs Shopware vs Magento: Framework, Platform or Suite?
Sylius, Shopware and Magento solve commerce differently — framework, subscription platform and forked suite. Compare licence, pricing tiers and version floors, not checkmarks.
- Ecommerce intermediate
Vendure vs EverShop: Framework Depth or Faster Full-Stack Start?
Feature checklists show Vendure and EverShop as equals; license terms, storefront inclusion, admin UI maturity and B2B tier pricing show why they solve different jobs.
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Why Ecommerce Upgrades Fail: Core Changes, Plugins, Schemas and Search
Platform upgrades break checkout, admin panels or search not from the core version bump itself but from plugin, schema and search-index contracts moving on separate timelines.
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EverShop in 2026: A Coherent TypeScript Store with a Young Ecosystem
Does EverShop's single-language stack offset its small ecosystem? Verified pricing, architecture trade-offs, scoring and a five-question PoC checklist.
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Headless Commerce Failure Modes: CMS, Search, Checkout and Preview Gaps
Why decoupling a storefront into CMS, search and checkout vendors multiplies preview gaps, stale search results, PCI scope creep and webhook duplication — and how to test for each before launch.