Medusa is an open-source commerce platform with building blocks for products, carts, orders and payments. It is for developers who want to build online stores, marketplaces or point-of-sale systems.
Bagisto is free, self-hosted software for running your own online shop, built on Laravel. It is aimed at businesses and developers who want to set up and customise their own store.
Saleor is a backend system for running online stores, with products, orders, payments and discounts handled through an API. It is aimed at developers and businesses that want to build their own storefront or custom shop logic.
WooCommerce is a free plugin that adds an online store to a WordPress website. It is for shop owners who want to sell products from a site they run themselves.
PrestaShop is free software for building and running an online shop, written in PHP. It is meant for merchants who want to sell products on their own website.
Sylius is a free, open-source framework for building online stores, used by developers who want a custom shop tailored to their business. It provides a programming base and a REST API so developers can build storefronts and connect them to other services.
2.4kQuiet for a yearOSL-3.0Runs on your own server
Shuup is an open-source online shop platform built with Django and Python. It is for businesses and developers who want to run their own store on their own server.
Vendure is a backend that runs the products, orders, payments and stock behind an online shop. It is for development teams who want to build a custom store and can host it themselves.
1.8kActiveMITReplaces partlyRuns on your own server
A free website storefront that shoppers browse and buy from, built with SvelteKit. It connects to an existing store backend such as Shopify, WooCommerce or Medusa, and is meant for shop owners who want to host their own storefront.
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Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/shop.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Shopify, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- Medusa (MIT, https://github.com/medusajs/medusa; replaces fully): Medusa is an open-source commerce platform with building blocks for products, carts, orders and payments. It is for developers who want to build online stores, marketplaces or point-of-sale systems.
- Bagisto (MIT, https://github.com/bagisto/bagisto; replaces fully): Bagisto is free, self-hosted software for running your own online shop, built on Laravel. It is aimed at businesses and developers who want to set up and customise their own store.
- Saleor (BSD-3-Clause, https://github.com/saleor/saleor; replaces fully): Saleor is a backend system for running online stores, with products, orders, payments and discounts handled through an API. It is aimed at developers and businesses that want to build their own storefront or custom shop logic.
- WooCommerce (GPL-2.0, https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce; replaces fully): WooCommerce is a free plugin that adds an online store to a WordPress website. It is for shop owners who want to sell products from a site they run themselves.
- Presta (OSL-3.0, https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop; replaces fully): PrestaShop is free software for building and running an online shop, written in PHP. It is meant for merchants who want to sell products on their own website.
- Sylius (MIT, https://github.com/Sylius/Sylius; replaces fully): Sylius is a free, open-source framework for building online stores, used by developers who want a custom shop tailored to their business. It provides a programming base and a REST API so developers can build storefronts and connect them to other services.
- Shuup (OSL-3.0, https://github.com/shuup/shuup; replaces fully): Shuup is an open-source online shop platform built with Django and Python. It is for businesses and developers who want to run their own store on their own server.
- Vendure (GPL-3.0, https://github.com/vendurehq/vendure; replaces partly): Vendure is a backend that runs the products, orders, payments and stock behind an online shop. It is for development teams who want to build a custom store and can host it themselves.
- Litekart (MIT, https://github.com/itswadesh/svelte-commerce; replaces partly): A free website storefront that shoppers browse and buy from, built with SvelteKit. It connects to an existing store backend such as Shopify, WooCommerce or Medusa, and is meant for shop owners who want to host their own storefront.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
