Open-source Salesforce Commerce Cloud alternatives

Medusa is an open-source commerce platform that includes its own framework for customizing behavior. Rather than a fixed storefront product, it supplies foundational commerce building blocks, so developers can assemble custom commerce applications without reinventing core logic such as carts, orders and payments.

The framework and modules can power advanced B2B or direct-to-consumer stores, marketplaces, distributor platforms, point-of-sale systems and service businesses. Its core commerce modules are open source and published on npm, while Enterprise Edition features are marked separately in the repository. It is written in TypeScript on Node.js, and its topics mention AI coding tools alongside the standard e-commerce stack. Release notes and an integrations catalog help teams keep a project current and connected to payment, shipping and other services.

For hosting, Medusa Cloud is a managed environment tuned for Medusa apps with automated deployments, scaling and maintenance, and you can also run the code locally or on your own servers by following the documentation. The license is listed as 'Other', so review which components are covered by which terms.

Saleor Core is an open-source headless commerce platform written in Python. It is API-only and GraphQL-native, so storefronts, dashboards and other clients talk to the backend exclusively through its API, which makes it a building block for composable commerce rather than a monolithic store application.

The project highlights several design choices: technology-agnostic, with no monolithic plugin system or lock-in; GraphQL only rather than a mix of API styles; open source with a single version and no feature fragmentation; cloud native; and native multichannel, with per-channel control over pricing, currencies, stock and products. Extension happens through webhooks and apps instead of modifying core code. Topics also mention product information management and order management.

Saleor is BSD-3-Clause licensed. The wider platform includes a separate dashboard and a storefront, and the README links documentation and community channels. You can self-host the core or use the vendor's cloud offering, and it suits engineering teams building custom shops, marketplaces and multi-country commerce experiences.

Spree is an open-source commerce platform written in Ruby. It bundles a full REST API, TypeScript SDKs, an admin dashboard written in React and a Next.js storefront ready for production, and the BSD 3-Clause license means you keep ownership of your code, data and infrastructure. The project's pitch is self-hosting with no platform fees and no vendor lock-in.

It is designed as a set of commerce primitives that adapt to different business models. For multi-vendor marketplaces it offers seller onboarding with configurable checklists, orders split by seller, commission rules, a payout ledger that uses Stripe Connect, and a dedicated seller panel. For B2B and wholesale it covers tiered volume pricing in price lists, customer groups, company accounts that have several locations, contacts, tax exemptions, and separate catalogs per segment. It also supports headless direct-to-consumer, cross-border and omnichannel selling alongside existing ERP, PIM and payment systems.

Spree has been developed since 2008, with documentation, an API reference, a roadmap and a Discord community. It suits engineering teams that want an owned, customizable commerce backend rather than a hosted store builder.

Magento Open Source is a PHP-based ecommerce platform used to build an online store from the ground up. The repository is magento/magento2, and the README presents it as software with the basic ecommerce capabilities, while directing merchants who need a more complete solution to Adobe Commerce.

Adobe Commerce adds an optimized cloud architecture with hosting, along with AI-powered merchandising and analytics, so the open-source edition is the self-managed starting point. The project has a large contributor community, with community maintainers who can review and merge pull requests, and the documentation covers system requirements, prerequisites and several installation options.

Magento is licensed under OSL-3.0, and contributors must sign the Adobe Contributor License Agreement. It runs on your own servers and fits developers, agencies and merchants who want control over the code of their store and are comfortable with the PHP ecosystem. Because it is a full platform, hosting, security updates and extensions are the store owner's responsibility.

Aimeos is a full-featured e-commerce package for Laravel. According to the README it can be installed in an existing Laravel application within about five minutes and then adapted, extended or overridden to fit the project. It targets fast online shops, scalable marketplaces and complex B2B applications.

Listed capabilities include multi-vendor, multi-channel and multi-warehouse operation, multi-tenant e-commerce SaaS setups with unlimited vendors, and product types such as bundles, vouchers, virtual, configurable and event products. It also supports subscriptions with recurring payments, JSON API and GraphQL access, and a Vue-based administration interface. The project claims very fast response times and support for very large catalogs, which you should verify for your own workload.

Aimeos for Laravel is MIT-licensed and runs inside your own Laravel application on your own hosting. It suits agencies and developers building custom stores, marketplaces or SaaS commerce products on Laravel.

Shopware 6 is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP on top of the Symfony framework, with a Vue.js administration interface. It gives merchants, agencies, and developers a foundation for running online shops, from a conventional storefront to a headless setup in which a separate front end talks to the platform through its API.

The platform is API-first, so catalog, cart, and checkout functions can be consumed by custom storefronts, apps, or other business systems. Built-in experience-management tools let content teams assemble shopping pages, and a large extension store of community and commercial add-ons extends shop behavior without changing the core. Developers can build their own plugins and customize themes.

The code is published under the MIT license and can be self-hosted on a standard PHP and database stack, which suits agencies delivering custom shops and merchants who want control over their commerce stack. It competes in the same space as Magento and PrestaShop, both of which appear among the project's topics.

Aimeos is an integrated online shop for Laravel built on the Aimeos e-commerce framework. It is positioned as an API-first, cloud-native platform for fast online shops, scalable marketplaces, and complex B2B applications, and can be installed in a few minutes. It is written in PHP with a Vue-based admin and released under the MIT license.

Features include a JSON REST API following the jsonapi.org specification and a GraphQL API for administration, multi-vendor, multi-channel, and multi-warehouse operation, and support for multi-tenant SaaS e-commerce with unlimited vendors. Product types cover bundles, vouchers, virtual and configurable products, and custom or event products. Subscriptions with recurring payments and many payment options are supported, and the SEO-friendly design is among the topics.

The README describes it as a fit for AWS, Google, Azure, and Kubernetes environments, scaling from a handful of items to very large catalogs. Aimeos suits PHP and Laravel developers, agencies, and companies that want an extensible shop they can customize and host themselves.

Smartstore is an open-source e-commerce platform built on ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core. It combines a shop with CMS and CRM style tools, so a merchant can run a catalog, a storefront, marketing and content from a single application instead of assembling several separate products.

It supports multi-language, multi-store and multi-currency shops and offers SEO-friendly product catalogs with variants, bundles, discounts, coupons and downloadable products. A responsive storefront theme is included out of the box, and the platform has built-in AI features for generating text and images through external providers. Tools for payment, shipping and sales round out the commerce side.

The code is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and is cross-platform, so it can run on servers you manage, including cloud environments such as Azure. The architecture is modular and follows a domain-driven design, with a REST API and headless commerce options for developers who want to extend it. A developer guide, user guide, forum and marketplace support the ecosystem.

GrandNode is an open-source e-commerce platform built with ASP.NET Core and MongoDB. Its use of a NoSQL database is the main design choice, aimed at fast page rendering and the ability to handle traffic spikes, and it targets businesses that want a customizable shop with room to grow.

The platform supports several business models, including B2B, B2C, multi-store, multi-vendor, multi-tenant, multi-language and multi-currency setups, so one installation can run several storefronts. It is designed to integrate with existing third-party software, and the project provides themes, plugins and integrations, a forum and a demo store. Premium support is offered separately by the maintainers.

GrandNode is written in C# on .NET and released under the GPL-3.0 licence. You can install it from the documented steps, build from source or run it locally, and host it on your own servers. It suits development teams and merchants in the .NET ecosystem who prefer MongoDB over a relational database for their store.

Shopware 5 is an open-source e-commerce software made in Germany, built on PHP with components such as Symfony 4, Doctrine 2 and Zend Framework. It offers an event-driven plugin system and an advanced hook system, which lets developers customize nearly every part of the platform.

The repository states that it is no longer actively monitored or maintained, and that updates may occur occasionally but cannot be guaranteed. It points to a Safefive-maintained version of Shopware 5 that continues to receive infrastructure compatibility updates. The README documents server requirements including PHP 7.4 or newer, Apache with mod_rewrite, MySQL 5.7 or newer and a list of PHP extensions, along with installation using Git.

The README says the licence is GPL v3, with some bundled parts under different licences, while the repository metadata lists it as other. Shops built on Shopware 5 run on your own hosting. Because the project is end of maintenance, newer projects would normally look at a current e-commerce platform, while existing shops may still rely on it with community-maintained patches.