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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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.
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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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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.