Smartstore Community Edition

Smartstore is a cross-platform, modular, scalable, and ultra-fast open-source all-in-one eCommerce platform built on ASP.NET Core 9 and Entity Framework Core 9, using modern web technologies like Vue.js, Sass, and Bootstrap.

Smartstore includes everything you need to build multi-language, multi-store, and multi-currency shops for desktop and mobile. It enables SEO-optimized, content-rich product catalogs with support for an unlimited number of products and categories, including variants, bundles, datasheets, ESD/digital products, discounts, coupons, and much more. A comprehensive toolset for CRM & CMS, sales, marketing, as well as payment and shipping workflows makes Smartstore a true all-in-one solution for demanding commerce projects.

Out of the box, Smartstore delivers a beautiful and highly customizable storefront built with a design-first approach. The included Flex theme is modern, clean, fully responsive, and continuously improved for accessibility (WCAG) — giving shoppers a great experience on any device.

Smartstore’s state-of-the-art architecture - based on ASP.NET Core 9, Entity Framework Core 9 and a Domain-Driven Design approach - makes it easy to extend, highly flexible, and a pleasure to work with.

What’s new in Smartstore 6.3

• Enhanced accessibility (WCAG) with further improvements for structure, screen readers, and keyboard navigation.
• Expanded AI capabilities, including a new provider (Anthropic Claude) and AI-assisted workflows.
• AI image editing directly in the Media Manager (e.g., via ChatGPT or Gemini) for fast, prompt-based edits and variations.
• GDPR-compliant captcha options (e.g., CaptchaFox and FriendlyCaptcha) as alternatives to Google reCAPTCHA.
• New payment option: “easyCredit purchase on account” for higher-priced purchases (deliver first, pay later).
• Various optimizations across product management, marketing, performance, stability, and integrations (e.g., Google Merchant Center, Rule Builder, email marketing).
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Technology & Design

• State-of-the-art architecture with ASP.NET Core 9, Entity Framework Core 9 and Domain-Driven Design
• Cross-platform: run on Windows, Linux, or macOS
• Docker support out of the box for fast and predictable deployments
• Composable, extensible and highly flexible thanks to a modular design
• Highly scalable with full page caching and web farm support
• Powerful theming engine with theme inheritance, plus point-and-click theme configuration
• Liquid template engine for emails and campaigns (flexible templating with editor support)
• HTML-to-PDF converter: generate PDF documents from standard HTML templates
• Consistent use of modern frontend components such as Vue.js, Sass and Bootstrap in frontend and backend
• Modern, clear administration UI for efficient shop management

Key Features

• Multi-store support
• Multi-language support including RTL (right-to-left) and bidirectional text
• Multi-currency support
• Product bundles, variants, attributes, ESD/digital products, tier pricing, cross-selling and more
• Marketing & promotion features (gift cards, reward points, discounts and more)
• Reviews & ratings
• Media Manager: powerful and lightning-fast media file explorer
• Rule Builder: visual business rules with many predefined rules
• Search framework with faceted search support — designed for very fast results at scale
• Scalability options including output caching, Redis support, and Microsoft Azure scenarios
• Tree-based permission management (ACL) with inheritance support
• Advanced import/export framework (profiles, filters, mapping, scheduling, deployment and more)
• CMS Page Builder with WYSIWYG editor (CSS grid-based) for rich content without coding
• Blog, forum, polls, custom pages and HTML content
• CMS Menu Builder: visual manager for menus of all typ