G2

Ihor B.

Founder

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/24/2026

"Four years, three major versions, one production store"

5/5

What do you like best about Vendure?

The plugin architecture is why we chose it and why we are still on it four years later. Everything we needed that Vendure does not ship — a national carrier integration, a fiscal register, a local payment provider, ERP synchronisation — was a plugin written against documented extension points, not a patch against core. We run 65 first-party plugins in production on a single store, and none of them required forking the framework.

The upgrade path is the second thing, and it is underrated. We started on 1.8.3 in November 2022; the same production store runs 3.7.2 today, through three major versions, with no re-platform and no feature freeze. Migrations are generated and reviewable, and breaking changes are documented honestly rather than minimised.

Being TypeScript and NestJS end to end matters more than it sounds. The API surface is typed, GraphQL codegen means our Next.js storefront and our React Native app share generated types against the same Shop API, and reading core source is a normal part of debugging rather than a last resort — which is also how we ended up sending fixes back upstream. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendure?

Translation handling has been our most persistent source of real bugs. Concurrent or double-clicked saves in the Admin UI could create duplicate translation rows for the same entity and language, after which the entity became uneditable; separately, the newer dashboard could write empty translation rows for languages left unfilled, which silently broke language fallback so products appeared blank in search. Both were reproducible in a normal multi-language store, and neither failed loudly. We reported them and sent a fix with a unique constraint and migration, but it is the area I would most want hardened by default.

Admin UI extension ergonomics have been the other rough edge. Building customisations meant Angular for a long time, tooling gaps in ui-devkit, and now a migration to the React dashboard — so a shop that has extended the admin heavily pays that cost more than once. But back then Vendure was still in very early alpha releases, and now it is much more battle-tested! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vendure solving and how is that benefiting you?

We replaced a WooCommerce monolith that had run out of room: database, back office and storefront on one server, a stack of third-party plugins of uneven quality, and no version control on the live code. The ceiling was architectural, not something you fix by tuning harder.

Vendure let us split that into independently scalable pieces and put the whole platform under ordinary software engineering — version control, code review, generated migrations, CI, automated tests. That sounds unglamorous and it is most of the benefit: changes stopped being risky.

Three things it solves concretely for us:

Market-specific commerce logic. The store sells into a market Shopify does not serve well — local payment providers, a national carrier, statutory fiscal registration. All of that is plugin work against a documented API instead of a workaround, which is the single biggest reason we did not go with a hosted platform.

One API behind several front ends. The Next.js storefront and the React Native app consume the same Shop API with shared generated types, so a backend change reaches both without building a second integration.

Room to grow without re-platforming. We migrated roughly 1,500 products at launch; the live catalogue is now over 48,000 variant documents in the search index, alongside an ERP synchronisation layer and 18 scheduled operational reports that did not exist at the start. None of it required leaving the platform.

On cost: it is self-hosted open source, so there is no revenue share and no platform fee that scales with order volume. What we spend is infrastructure and engineering — predictable, and ours to control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.