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Vendure

Open source headless commerce platform built with TypeScript, NestJS and GraphQL, with a plugin-first architecture.

Overview

Vendure is a headless commerce platform for modeling catalog, orders, pricing, promotions and customers on a backend you can change at the core rather than work around. It's built end-to-end in TypeScript on NestJS, exposes a GraphQL API, and ships a React/TanStack-based admin dashboard. Its plugin system is the primary extension point — most custom business logic is expected to be written as plugins rather than forked core code.

It supports single-store and multi-channel setups (useful for running D2C and B2B storefronts, or multiple regional storefronts, from one backend), and is commonly paired with a separate frontend framework since it's headless by design.

Vendure is dual-licensed: the open source edition is GPLv3, with a separate commercial license (Vendure Commercial License) available from Vendure GmbH for teams that need different terms. Worth knowing before adopting it, since that's a different model from the fully permissive licenses on some other platforms in this catalog.

Why it's in this catalog

Catalog rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)

TypeScript/NestJS/GraphQL-native stack and plugin-first architecture genuinely differ from Medusa and Saleor, but ecommerce is no longer a thin category, so a good rather than essential fourth headless option.

  • Mature
  • Vendor-backed
Categories
E-commerce
Keywords
headless-commerceecommercegraphqlb2b-commerce
Languages
TypeScript
License
GPL-3.0

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