If you have a small shop, Shopify is a great match for you
The small scale is not our target audience, ...but Saleor may still interest you
if you're an open-source enthusiast and want to have full control over your data
need extra flexibility and you have devs
What exactly we are selling?
support for extending Saleor and e-commerce specialist support
as Mirumee and Saleor we have a history of long term cooperation with multi-million brands - we are not a software house creating 'just another Magento template', but partners in making e-commerce better
Saleor Cloud hosting
all hard parts of running up-to-date software, calling, etc are on us
If your software is for free, why should I pay you?
hosting e-commerce with stable uptime is hard
...but we have the best team to achieve that ;)
our partners have an influence on Saleor development
we can assist you with our knowledge
choosing payment providers
stock management software
etc
our team can create apps for new integrations
The project is and will be open source. We are confident, that value added by our team is well worth Cloud subscription
open source means, that you can always choose to host on your own. No golden handcuffs
Why big organizations should use Saleor?
you probably already have a team of devs
you want to test new e-commerce ideas and have data synchronized
you want to be able to test new marketing tools and recommendation systems
how can you attract new developers, if you use a closed, outdated stack?
Saleor contributes to open standards
contributing to open source projects is beneficial for the carrier
knowledge of APIs with graphql/webhooks is easily translatable to different projects, so you are not specializing in one solution, but in open standards