# Vendure Reviews **Vendor:** Vendure **Category:** [E-Commerce Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/e-commerce-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 4 ## About Vendure Build better multichannel commerce experiences faster. Vendure is the headless commerce platform that is built to adapt to your needs. Not the other way round. ## Vendure Pros & Cons **What users dislike:** - Users express concern about the **license change from MIT to GPLv3** , fearing potential future changes and uncertainties. (1 reviews) ## Vendure Reviews ### 1. I used Vendure to create an automated webshop deployer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rasmus P. | JS fullstack engineer - node.js & react.js, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Vendure?** Feature rich, customizable, modular, mature and produciton ready. Quite polished user experience for a open source product. **What do you dislike about Vendure?** Not much to say in this section, but what I wish for Vendure is a bigger community. More contributions, more features, more poeple involved - so it can grow even bigger and faster. **What problems is Vendure solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Vendure to build a simple online store and decided to automate the work involved in the deployment. I used Railway.app for server infrastructure, which combined with Vendure's modularity made this easy. I succeeded in creating a deploy template that anyone is free to use. The deploy template will launch a Vendure backend, a database, a React webshop frontend (also built by the Vendure team), connect all the peices and host it on Railway with just one click. You can read more about my deploy template, or even try it out yourself. In under 10 minutes, you will have your own live Vendure webshop. Link: https://funkyton.com/vendure-tutorial/ ### 2. Most developer friendly ecommerce software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Vendure?** Vendure offers a perfect core software that allows every kind of customization. It's equipped with latest technologies and concepts and therefore we were able to easily learn about and extend the vendure platform. Vendure being open-source also brings the benefit of really owning the code that I run my business on. **What do you dislike about Vendure?** Currently you have to self host it. Therefore, for a scalable solution that handles thousands of active users, some knowledge about building and maintaining infrastructure is required. **What problems is Vendure solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to build a rental marketplace that required many features similar to a common e-commerce shop. This marketplace demanded extensive customizations in payments and payouts, shipping options, stock management, and handling of customer-owned assets. Vendure provided a solution that made implementing these highly customized features straightforward. By using Vendure, we were able to gain the basic features of an e-commerce platform while leveraging the framework to meet our highly individual needs. ### 3. Perfect if you want a powerful e-commerce solution instead of a monkey on your back **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc S. | Tech lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Vendure?** Exceptional architecture Highly customizable Open source **What do you dislike about Vendure?** Lack of available plugins for common tasks No plugin marketplace (yet) No hosting options (yet) **What problems is Vendure solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vendure is offering an open source single or multi vendor e-commerce platform. It allows you to implement the platform without taking any percentage of sales, nor ask for a licensing fee. It's the perfect companion for a startup that wants to focus on streamlining their digital commercial process and deliver the end user exactly what they need customizing the experience to the exact level that you need, or simply deliver an "out of the box shop". ### 4. Advanced and customizable e-commerce framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martijn f. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Vendure?** Being able to properly customize to our clients needs, without ever needing hacky workarounds. **What do you dislike about Vendure?** Vendure is for the advanced e-commerce solutions, not per se suitable for small out-of-the-box shops. **What problems is Vendure solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our clients expect us to build e-commerce solutions that fit their business. Often these solutions can not be achieved through the existing e-commerce platforms. Vendure is extensible by default, and it's headless architecture allow us to choose the right frontend per client. - [View Vendure pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vendure/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-17+06%3A27%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=caf6249c-9c25-4a8e-b399-dd8bfaf4664d&secure%5Btoken%5D=bb29838b1d084d913f28d13db96e21bebe4e726c0957e7797a1ec6f6c6397d7b&format=llm_user) ## Vendure Features **Headless Commerce** - Decoupling - REST APIs - Data Orchestration - Customization - Extensibility **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - E-Commerce Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Merchandising/Marketing** - Storefront Design Tools - Product Visualization - Recommendations / Personalization - Promotions and Discounts - Shopping Cart Abandonment - Product Reviews - SEO **Product Catalog** - Content Management - Product Configuration - Product Search and Filtering - Intangible Products **Order Process** - Checkout Process - Shipping Options - Tax Display and Processing - Payment Processing - Order Management - Returns / Refunds - Inventory Management - Multi-Channel Fulfillment **Multi-Channel Support** - Omnichannel - Mobile - Social Commerce - Customer Service - Store Locator - 3rd-Party Store Integration - B2B **Platform** - APIs - Customization - Integrations to Add-on Tools - User Management - Reporting / Analytics - Security - Multi-Site Management - Admin Access Rights - Test-to-Product Migration - Internationalization - Cross Browser Support - Performance and Reliability ## Top Vendure Alternatives - [Shopify](https://www.g2.com/products/shopify/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (4,913 reviews) - [WooCommerce](https://www.g2.com/products/woocommerce/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,224 reviews) - [NetSuite](https://www.g2.com/products/netsuite/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (4,608 reviews)