Virto Commerce is an open-source, .NET-based, headless, API-first commerce platform — built B2B-first, ready for B2C, marketplace, DTC, and composable scenarios. This page is the entry point for developers: spin it up, understand what you're building, and ship.
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As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Virto serves over 100 companies worldwide and has offices in five countries, including the Americas and Europe. Leveraging our open-source ecommerce platform, hosted solution and full-service offering, our clients strategically use ecommerce to build stronger customer relationships and rapidly increase global online sales. Virto Commerce’s flagship product, the ecommerce cloud-based, open-source, .NET platform, is the only B2B-first headless digital commerce solution that is specifically designed to adapt to ever-changing complex scenarios common in the B2B market.
These docs will help you learn and use Virto Commerce:
- Release Strategy for Business Users - How Virto Commerce ships — modules, bundles, cadence, and what it means for your roadmap.
- Integration Capabilities of Virto Commerce - An integration path for every audience - buyers, your eCommerce team, and your suppliers - and how to choose between them.
- Atomic Architecture Map - One-screen interactive map of the platform's building blocks - atoms, molecules, modules and the business capabilities they compose. Answers what exists, which one to reach for, and where it sits in the stack.
- Virto Cloud - Enterprise Commerce, Fully Managed - Deliver faster, grow faster: Virto builds, runs, and operates the infrastructure with a 99.9% uptime SLA - budget goes to features, not servers.
Every monthly release is rendered as an interactive Virto Commerce slide deck. Product, engineering, and business stakeholders review what shipped, mark features for their own backlog, then export a ready-to-paste Markdown table for Jira, Linear, or GitHub Issues.
At Virto Commerce, we pride ourselves on being proactive technology innovators deeply dedicated to creating flexible, agile commerce software solutions that improve business and accelerate digital adoption. All this requires a special mindset and a lot of collaborative effort to make complex things simple. We believe in the uniting power of technology, teamwork and spirit, and we take personal responsibility for every project we undertake.
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AI helps at every step: Ask Virto OZ for documentation-grounded answers, Install Claude Code with Context7 for instant code changes, Add llms.txt to your prompts for zero-install documentation grounding
👨💻 Ai Quick Start
Use start-local to bring up the full stack (platform, frontend, database, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kibana) on your machine with one PowerShell command.
$installSCript = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VirtoCommerce/start-local/dev/VirtoLocal_create_local_files.ps1" -UseBasicParsing; Set-Content -Path ".\VirtoLocal_create_local_files.ps1" -Value $installSCript.Content; .\VirtoLocal_create_local_files.ps1Virto Commerce is designed to be extended. Start with Configure your custom solution
The Extensibility Framework lets you add entities, override services, extend APIs, and add admin UI — all without forking.
👨💻 Virto Architectural Guidelines
👨💻 What are the skills required for Virto Commerce Developer?
👨💻 Virto Commerce Dev Training Program
👨💻 How to Run a Real Root Cause Analysis on a Virto Commerce Project
We welcome contributions — code, docs, bug reports, and feature ideas. The fastest path:
- 🐛 Browse open issues — issues labelled good first issue are best for newcomers.
- 💡 For larger ideas, open a discussion or an issue before coding so maintainers can shape the approach.
- 📝 Code fixes are always welcome and the easiest way to get familiar with Contribution guide
