Aimeos

Start by getting a product live, fast. Import your catalog via CSV or the REST endpoints, define options and attributes for variants, and mix physical items with digital downloads or configurable bundles. Set taxes, currencies, and shipping zones in the admin, then plug in your preferred payment gateways and run a test checkout with sandbox credentials. Use the promotion tools to create coupons, tiered discounts, or time-boxed deals. Turn on stock tracking so inventory updates on every purchase, and schedule recurring orders for subscriptions or refills. When you’re ready, publish the storefront and monitor orders, payments, and returns from a single dashboard.\n\nNext, grow into a multi-vendor marketplace without changing platforms. Invite merchants, assign them to their own catalogs, languages, and currencies, and let them manage stock, pricing, media, and fulfillment from dedicated vendor dashboards. Keep control of global policies—shipping templates, refund rules, content guidelines—while automating commissions and payouts. Power search and filtering with Elasticsearch to keep results relevant across large catalogs. Run multiple storefronts from one deployment, each with its own theme and assortment, and use role-based permissions to separate teams by brand or region. Announce flash sales and loyalty perks across all channels—web, PWA, and native apps—using the same backend.\n\nFor B2B flows, create company accounts with roles for buyers, approvers, and accountants. Offer negotiated price lists, customer-specific assortments, and volume breaks. Let buyers request quotes, revise carts, and convert approved quotes to orders. Add order approval rules by spend, SKU, or cost center and support net terms, invoices, and purchase orders. Enable scheduled replenishment, quick reorders from purchase history, and bulk uploads for complex carts. Sync inventory and pricing with your ERP or CRM through the API, export audit logs for compliance, and automate returns with carrier labels and status updates.\n\nDevelopers can extend without forking. Override templates, register custom providers, and add domain logic through hooks or services. Build headless frontends with the JSON REST API for PWAs or native apps, then integrate analytics, email, and marketing tools through webhooks. Use the search index for fast facets and suggestions, queue background jobs for imports and notifications, and scale horizontally behind a cache. Write tests for custom code, wire it into CI/CD, and deploy new storefronts by configuration instead of cloning projects. With one codebase powering many shops, you can introduce features once and roll them out everywhere with minimal effort.