Choosing a backend for a SvelteKit storefront: coverage across 26 connectors
All 26 Svelte Commerce connectors ranked by measured coverage of a 43-service surface: which backends can sell today, which need work, which cannot yet.
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Notes from the people building it
Posts by the people building GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce — why the software is shaped the way it is, what it does today, and where it stops. Every claim about the code can be checked in the repositories.
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The API is the storefront now: agentic commerce on an open stack
Agents are a new door into a store. What GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce give an agent today, what they do not, and why an open engine matters more now.
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A multi-vendor marketplace in Go: the data model, and how far GoCommerce has got
How to model sellers and offers for a multi-vendor marketplace in Go, and what GoCommerce has built: vendors, offers, scoped seller logins. Selling from an offer and payouts are not built.
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A SvelteKit storefront on Vendure: setup, Vendure settings and what is missing
Run a SvelteKit storefront on Vendure with Svelte Commerce: swap in the Vendure connector, set one URL, change two Vendure options. How it talks to the Shop API, and its gaps.
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An open-source ecommerce MCP server: what to check before you let an agent in
What to look for in an open-source ecommerce MCP server: transport, credentials, read and write tools, audit. GoCommerce’s MCP module checked against each, gaps included.
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Building an ecommerce backend in Go: the parts that are hard
What an ecommerce backend in Go has to get right: integer money, variants, stock reserved inside checkout, idempotent orders, verified webhooks and an outbox.
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Commerce platform changes, 12–18 October 2026
Shopify’s Hydrogen now works outside React, Vendure 3.8 adds MCP tools and fixes an Admin API session flaw, Shop MCP opens checkout to agents, and Saleor adds per-channel variant availability.
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Commerce platform changes, 19–25 October 2026
Medusa 2.22 routes payments to separate accounts by region, Vendure 3.8.1 stops leaking reset tokens through job data, Shopify says expiring tokens are coming for public apps, and UCP adds store-location search.
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Commerce platform changes, 5–11 October 2026
Vendure 3.7.4 fixes an API-key escalation and overselling, Saleor fixes stock and duplicate cart lines, and Shopify sets 2 November as the end of its Global Catalog REST API.
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Headless commerce in Go: an API engine and a storefront you choose
Headless commerce in Go with GoCommerce: a REST API and OpenAPI contract, guest carts by token, CORS or a proxy, and a SvelteKit storefront that plugs in.
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Razorpay webhook signature verification in Go
Verify a Razorpay webhook in Go with crypto/hmac: the raw body, X-Razorpay-Signature, duplicate events by X-Razorpay-Event-Id, the 5-second limit, and a tested handler.
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Planned: one GoCommerce engine for every store
GoCommerce plans to merge platform mode into the ordinary engine: one set of tables where every row carries its store, row security as the net, one sign-in and a store switcher. What changes, and what does not.
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Abandoned checkouts: reminders that stop the moment a basket becomes an order
GoCommerce now spots a basket left behind within minutes, sends a short run of reminder emails, and credits the order that brings it back. Here is how.
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Run many stores from one Docker Compose file
GoCommerce’s platform mode runs many stores from one process and one PostgreSQL database. What the Compose file starts, what is shared, and what is missing.
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