Umbraco Commerce

In 2023, Umbraco announced that they had acquired the company behind Vendr - Vendr ecommerce is a module that enables running webshops on Umbraco CMS. Vendr ensures that you can create and manage your online store directly from Umbraco's CMS interface. Like Umbraco, it is built on .NET technology and offers a range of features that make it easy to manage your e-commerce business, including product management, customer administration, payment gateway integration, and much more.

With this announcement, Umbraco took a big step towards becoming a better e-commerce solution, and now another step has been taken.

During Codegarden 2023, it was announced that Vendr has transformed into Umbraco Commerce.

Umbraco Commerce will initially include the same functionalities as Vendr. Therefore, Commerce is simply the rebranding of Vendr. Commerce will still function as a separate module for Umbraco, integrating with Umbraco CMS. However, there will be an increased focus on developing new features, better integration with add-ons such as Umbraco Deploy, and improved system support.

Vendr ecommerce, now known as Umbraco Commerce is specifically designed to integrate with Umbraco CMS - and now, after the acquisition in 2023, also a part of Umbraco. Commerce is therefore the ideal choice when you want to run a webshop on Umbraco, because you will experience full integration. That way, you can take advantage of the built-in functionalities in both Umbraco and Commerce when creating the webshop that will ensure your online success.

Because Umbraco Commerce is an adaptable and flexible platform, it can be customized to meet the specific requirements and preferences you may have for both your business and your customers.

Overall, Commerce can provide you with an integrated and user-friendly webshop solution.

Some of the key features in Umbraco Commerce include:

• Flexibility and customization: Commerce is built on .NET technology, which makes it very flexible and adaptable, so you can customize your online store exactly to your specific needs and requirements.
  
  
• Multi: Commerce is unlimited, no matter how many stores, countries, currencies or anything else you need.
  
  
• User-friendly and intuitive interface: With Commerce, you get an easy and clear way to create and manage products, orders, customers, and payments.
  
  
• Easy customization of payment providers: Commerce comes with a number of popular payment providers such as PayPal and Stripe. And if one is missing, Commerce provides an API so you can easily create your own.
  
  
• Product catalog and ordering system: Commerce has an integrated product catalog function that makes it easy to create and manage products and categories, and a robust ordering engine that controls the entire checkout process.
  
  
• Flexible discounts and gift cards: Commerce comes with a range of common discount options, such as product line discounts, package discounts, cart discounts, and discount codes. And they are customizable so you can easily create your own rules.
  
  
• Order processing and return management: Commerce allows you to manage the entire order process, including order processing, shipping, and handling of returns and refunds.
  
  
• User management and customer information: Commerce includes a user-friendly user management function that allows you to manage user access and permissions, as well as an integrated customer information system so you can collect and store customer information - securely.
  
  
• Built-in email function: Commerce comes with a built-in system for configuring and sending emails for order confirmation, shipping information, and receipts, among other things. All emails are fully customizable.
  
  
• Marketing and reporting: Commerce also includes a range of reporting and marketing features, including the ability to create customer-specific prices, integrate with Google Analytics, and generate various reports on sales, orders, and customer information.
  
  
• Strong security: Commerce has a range of security features that protect both your online store and your customers. This includes data encryption, protection against fraud and abuse, and compliance with necessary standards and regulations.

We are your Certified Umbraco Gold Partner and Umbraco Commerce Partner. And within our Umbraco team, you'll find a seasoned Umbraco MVP.

With over 20 years of experience, we understand your business, and that goes beyond just the digital aspect and the ability to build the custom integrations you need to meet your requirements. With specialists in marketing, design, and development, we can help you achieve success across your entire business.

Umbraco Commerce is compatible with Umbraco 8 and above. If you wish to integrate your Umbraco solution with Commerce, an upgrade from an earlier version may be necessary. We recommend this regardless, to ensure you have the latest features, best performance, and highest security.

Learn more about the different Umbraco releases here.

Umbraco Commerce is built on .NET Core, a technology that requires Umbraco 8 or later to run. This ensures seamless integration between ecommerce and CMS functions, improved performance and security, and the ability to take advantage of the latest additions to the Umbraco CMS ecosystem.

Therefore, Commerce uses the latest features, and the first version was developed for Umbraco 8. Since then, Umbraco Commerce has been updated with both a version 2 and a version 3.

Version 2 was made multi-target and therefore works on both Umbraco 8 with .NET Framework and Umbraco 9 with .NET Core, while version 3 works on Umbraco 10+. Here, the focus is on minimizing code layers and supporting both .NET Framework and .NET Core.

In Umbraco 10, SQL CE database support has also been dropped in favor of SQLite, which supports, among other things, Linux, macOS, and Windows.