Enterprise commerce with the hard parts already built
Enterprise plugins covering the surface real commerce teams build out anyway, things like SSO, B2B workflows, contract pricing, audit, and search, maintained and supported under one contract by the team that ships Vendure. Commercial licence, IP indemnification, SLA-backed support.
High-value order approval
Build it yourself, or lock in to a suite that doesn't bend
OSS-only turns it into a multi-year DIY project. Your team designs and builds SSO, B2B hierarchies, approval chains, audit, contract pricing, and search from scratch, then keeps it all alive forever.
A rigid SaaS suite gives you the surface, but the data model and roadmap aren't yours. Customisation means consulting engagements, not code. Roadmap gaps stay gaps until the vendor decides otherwise.
20+ enterprise plugins, shipped with Platform
Five categories of enterprise plugins, plus a customer-facing storefront on top. Every plugin is a first-class Vendure plugin, not a third-party integration.
B2B buying workflows
Org hierarchies, approval chains, quotes, and bulk reorders. The workflows enterprise B2B buyers expect.
Pricing and promotions
Contract pricing, store credit and gift cards, packaging-unit pricing. The pricing surface complex catalogues need.
Search and discovery
Typesense-backed search, global command palette, wishlists. Findability across catalogues, dashboards, and storefronts.
Governance and compliance
SSO, audit trails, row-level permissions, content versioning. The controls procurement and security teams require before they sign.
Build less, ship faster, own less code
The plugin surface cancels work your team would otherwise design, build, maintain, and own forever.
De-risked implementation
Every plugin is production-tested, supported under contract, and maintained by the engineering team behind Vendure. Your team doesn't build SSO, audit, or B2B workflows from scratch; you ship the hardened version.
Shorter time-to-market
Enterprise capabilities go from "engineering project" to "configure and deploy". Compared to a DIY build, teams reach pilot faster because the hard parts are already in the box. Procurement-required capabilities are live on day one of launch.
Lower total cost of ownership
Every plugin you don't build is engineering hours, code-review cycles, ongoing maintenance, and security upkeep your team doesn't carry. Your engineers stay on what differentiates your business.
One coherent backend for the whole commerce surface
Catalogue, pricing, orders, customers, channels, business logic, and enterprise plugins all live on the same core, built on TypeScript, NestJS, and GraphQL.
One data model, one API, one runtime to operate.
import { ShippingCalculator } from '@vendure/core';
export const customShipping = new ShippingCalculator({
code: 'custom-shipping',
args: {},
calculate: (ctx, order) => ({
price: order.subTotal * 0.05,
priceIncludesTax: ctx.channel.pricesIncludeTax,
taxRate: 0,
}),
});Extend Core and every enterprise plugin, in your own code
Standard enterprise capabilities ship built in. Your custom code extends Core and every enterprise plugin through the same extension points (models, logic, and integrations), all in your own repo.
The contractual surface your legal, security, and ops teams ask about
Legal, security, and ops teams each have a checklist a platform has to clear before the contract moves forward. Platform is built to satisfy each one.
Commercial licence with IP indemnification
A commercial licence over the open-source core, with IP indemnification and warranties. Releases your team from the GPLv3 copyleft obligations on Vendure Core and gives procurement the contract they need to sign.
SLA-backed support
Direct access to the engineering team, response-time SLAs, and a defined escalation path. Solutions engineering joins your team during evaluation and onboarding.
Trusted by complex B2B commerce and enterprise retail.
Platform, Cloud, Core: an honest comparison
- Hosting & operations
- Your team runs production
- Enterprise plugins
- All current + future
- Support
- SLA-backed, direct to engineering
- Licence
- Commercial + indemnification
- Best for
- Teams with the ops capacity to run production themselves
- Hosting & operations
- Managed by Vendure
- Enterprise plugins
- All current + future
- Support
- SLA-backed, direct to engineering
- Licence
- Commercial + indemnification
- Best for
- Teams that want enterprise commerce without operating the infrastructure
- Hosting & operations
- Your team runs production
- Enterprise plugins
- Not included
- Support
- Community or paid Core Expert Access
- Licence
- GPLv3, copyleft obligations
- Best for
- Engineering teams evaluating, prototyping, or running OSS commerce in-house
