CMS & builds

An open source ecommerce platform is the engine your storefront runs on: catalogue, cart, checkout, payments and shipping. This section holds ready-made builds — you download the archive, deploy it on your own hosting and get a working store rather than an empty framework.

• CommerCentr Community — the complete build, free and with nothing trimmed out.

What is worth comparing when you pick an engine:

• Who owns the data. On a hosted platform your store lives on someone else's server and your access is tied to the subscription. A self-hosted engine runs on your hosting, with your database and your backups.
• What happens when you stop paying. A perpetual licence means the version you installed stays yours. That is not the same as a free trial.
• Local reality.Shipping and payments, fiscal receipts — either in the box or something your developer has to write.
• Who can change the code. If your own developer will grow the store, they need to see the code, not only the settings screens.

A build does not replace the launch itself: the domain, the hosting, the catalogue content and the copy are still yours to bring. What is inside, though, runs with no trial period — it is the same code this marketplace runs on.