Open source e-commerce

Best for…

• Most starred

  MedusaJs

  37,008 stars on GitHub, the largest community in the category.

• Most active

  Spree Commerce

  1,814 commits in the last 90 days, the fastest-moving codebase here.

• Most permissive

  Saleor

  BSD-3-Clause licence with health 97/100: the strongest option if you need to embed or fork commercially.

How the e-commerce tools compare

E-commerce software. Repoly tracks 25 open-source e-commerce tools, each scored nightly from its repository activity and ranked by that score alone. Saleor leads at 97/100 with 113 commits in the last 90 days and 23k stars, followed by EverShop (96) and Solidus (95). 20 of the 25 score 70 or above, 7 publish a Docker image, and the median health is 86. MIT is the most common licence, carried by 8 of them. Between them they stand in for Shopify and Eventbrite. The score weighs commits in the last 90 days, release recency, stars, archive status and Docker support; a low number means low measurable activity, not low quality, so a finished, stable tool can legitimately sit lower down.

Saleor edges EverShop 97 to 96, and most of the difference is stars: 23k stars against 11k stars. EverShop is the busier codebase, though, with 295 commits in 90 days to 113. MedusaJs has the largest following at 37k stars, yet ranks #8 of 25, held back mostly by Docker support (no Docker image).

The most recent release is Spree Commerce v6.0.1, published yesterday. Pretix, Drupal Commerce, OXID eShop and 1 more publish no tagged releases, which costs up to 25 of the 100 points. Aimeos scores under 40, so check recent activity before adopting it. By stack, PHP (15), Nodejs (3) and Ruby (3) are the most common. Saleor, Solidus, myCart and 9 more are permissively licensed; EverShop, Hi.Events, Discount Bandit and 8 more are copyleft. OXID eShop and Sharetribe are source-available rather than open source, which limits commercial reuse.

How to choose e-commerce software

• Want the project most likely to keep shipping? Start with Saleor: health 97/100 and 113 commits in the last 90 days.
• Building it into a commercial product? Saleor is BSD-3-Clause, a permissive licence, so changes you ship stay yours.
• Want the quickest install? Saleor, EverShop, Solidus and 4 more ship a Docker image; the others install by hand on their own stack.
• Planning to patch or extend it? Match your stack: PHP (Discount Bandit, Bagisto and 13 more), Nodejs (EverShop, MedusaJs and 1 more), Ruby (Solidus, Spree Commerce and 1 more).
• The score measures maintenance, not features: shortlist two and try them with your own data before you migrate.

E-commerce: common questions