Shopsys Platform is a fully functional e-commerce solution for businesses transitioning into tech companies with their own software development team. It contains the most common B2C and B2B features for online stores, and its infrastructure is prepared for high scalability.

Shopsys Platform is the fruit of our 16 years of experience in creating custom-made online stores, and it’s dedicated to the best in-house devs teams who work with online stores with tens of millions of Euros of turnover per year.

Our platform’s architecture is modern and corresponds to the latest trends in the production of software for leading e-commerce solutions. Deployment and scaling of our system are comfortable thanks to containerization and orchestration concepts (Docker, Kubernetes). The platform is based on one of the best PHP frameworks on the market - Symfony.

Shopsys Platform is a fully functional e-commerce solution with all the basic functionality all e-commerce sites need:

• Product catalog
• Registered customers
• Basic orders management
• Back-end administration
• Front-end full-text search and product filtering
• 3-step ordering process
• Basic CMS
• Support for several currencies, languages, and domains
• Full friendly URL for main entities and full control over SEO aspects of online presence
• Performance optimization through Elasticsearch, Redis, PostgreSQL
• Full core upgradability
• GDPR compliance
• Preparation for scalability
• Manifest for orchestration via Kubernetes
• Support to easier deployment to Google Cloud via Terraform
• Basic GraphQL Front-end API for implementation of own front-end and PWA

An overview of our goals and priorities can be found in our Shopsys Platform Roadmap

The shopsys/shopsys package is a monolithic repository, a single development environment, for the management of all parts of Shopsys Platform. See more information about the monorepo approach in the Monorepo article.

For the purposes of building a new project, use the shopsys/project-base, which is fully ready as the base for building your Shopsys Platform project.

For more detailed instructions, follow one of the installation guides:

• Installation Guide
• Deployment to Google Cloud
• Installation on production server

For documentation of Shopsys Platform itself, see Shopsys Platform Knowledge Base.

For the frequently asked questions, see FAQ and Common Issues.

Let us know if you have some ideas or want to help improve Shopsys Platform! We are looking forward to your insights, feedback, and improvements. Thank you for helping us make Shopsys Platform better.

All the necessary information is in our Contribution Guide.

What to do when you are in troubles or need some help? The best way is to join our Slack.

If you are experiencing problems during installation or running Shopsys Platform on Docker, please see our Docker troubleshooting.

Or ultimately, just report an issue.

We distribute the main parts of Shopsys Platform under two different licenses:

• Community License in MIT style for growing small to mid-size e-commerce sites with total online sales less than 12.000.000 EUR / year (3.000.000 EUR / quarter)
• Commercial License

Learn the principles on which we distribute our product on our website at Licenses and Pricing section.

Some of Shopsys Platform repositories including HTTP smoke testing and Monorepo Tools are distributed under standard MIT license so generally you can use it without any restriction. The information about the license is placed in the LICENSE file in the root of each repository.

Shopsys Platform also uses some third-party components and images which are licensed under their own respective licenses. The list of these licenses is summarized in Open Source License Acknowledgements and Third Party Copyrights.