Integrating Payload CMS with Vendure
This guide demonstrates how to integrate Payload CMS with the Vendure headless commerce platform.
The integration uses the commerce platform for transactional logic and Payload for rich content management. This pattern establishes Vendure as the single source of truth for core product data.
Key Features of Payload
Payload is a headless CMS and application framework built with TypeScript and Node.js.
A key feature is its code-first configuration, where you define your content collections as TypeScript objects (CollectionConfig). This provides strong typing and allows you to manage your entire content model in version control.
Why Vendure's Architecture is Ideal for a Payload Integration
Vendure's architecture is well-suited for this integration because its plugin system allows you to build an event-driven data synchronisation pipeline.
The EventBus can trigger jobs for product updates, while the built-in JobQueue manages background tasks like API calls and retries. All of this logic is encapsulated within a decoupled plugin, keeping your codebase maintainable.
Build Your Production-Ready Payload Integration
Our documentation provides a complete guide to the Payload service implementation.
We also provide a complete, working example of this integration for you to explore, which includes advanced features like batch operations and relationship management.
Vendure Documentation: CMS Integration Plugin Tutorial
What You Will Build
This guide demonstrates how to use Vendure's CMS plugin architecture to build a production-ready Payload integration. You will learn how to:
- Set up a Payload project and configure collections for products, variants, and collections using TypeScript.
- Transform Vendure entities into the format required by Payload's API.
- Implement a centralized method for making authenticated API requests to the Payload local API.
- Handle complex entity relationships by resolving and linking document IDs between collections.
- Implement the full CRUD synchronisation logic for products, variants, and collections.
Further Reading
Share this article
