Platforms and stacks — ecommerce development
Choosing the pieces: hosted platforms compared with open source, headless versus monolith, when a custom build is justified, payment providers, and the apps that quietly become your architecture.
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Apps and extensions: how the plugin bill becomes the architecture
Every app is a dependency with a monthly fee, a performance cost and an owner who is not you. Twelve of them is an architecture nobody designed.
Choosing a payment provider without regretting it
Rates matter less than payout timing, local methods, failure handling and how hard it is to leave. Ask about the bad days, not the demo.
When a custom ecommerce build is the right call
Custom is not a status symbol. It earns its cost when your rules do not fit, your volume makes fees material, or commerce is part of your product.
Headless or monolithic commerce: when the split is worth it
Headless buys presentation freedom and multi-channel reach, and charges for it in complexity every day. Most stores do not need it yet.
Hosted platform or open source: the questions that decide it
The comparison is not features. It is who carries hosting, PCI scope, updates and the rules your business does not fit.