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An Open-Source eCommerce Platform Built on .NET Core

No Vendor Lock-In

Our clients have 100% code control and ownership of the .NET ecommerce platform. Flexibly migrate your solution from a hybrid or on-premise model to a cloud approach or vice versa as the needs of your organization change.

Open-Source Ecosystem

Our open-source, cross-platform architecture enables greater innovation alongside a network of solution and technology partners. Check out our GitHub repositories for the latest releases.

Various Deployment Options

Leverage our managed-cloud solutions or deploy on any public cloud with total flexibility. Moreover, companies with private cloud or in-house hosting capabilities should ask about our on-premise software licensing.

Integrated with Azure

Virto Commerce combines the best of Microsoft Azure, open-source .NET code, ASP.NET Core framework, and Kubernetes container support for a next-generation ecommerce platform. Employ Azure AI and serverless for your solution.

Key Features of the Open-Source
.NET eCommerce Platform

Unified Architecture

Drive new online revenue with the Virto .NET platform based on a modern unified architecture. Our platform serves a variety of ecommerce use cases: B2B, B2C, marketplace, and more.

Faster Launches

Get your MVP launched and ready for online orders in less than a month. Our extensible framework enables you to quickly integrate our platform into your business systems for an accelerated go-to-market strategy.

Lowest TCO

Lower your total cost of ownership by as much as 30% with our managed-cloud services. Minimize the cost of upgrades with our microservice architecture. Generate more online revenue for a faster return on your investment.

Why Choose an Open-Source
.NET eCommerce Platform?

When it comes to selecting an ecommerce platform, choosing the right technology stack is one of the most pivotal things you will do as a CEO, CIO, or business owner. Factors to consider are features, extensibility, pricing, and programming languages.

.NET is a Popular

Dev Framework

.NET is one of the most popular web, server, and desktop development frameworks. It's used by some of the biggest brands in the world. According to the Stack Overflow developer surveys, the ASP.NET Core toolkit, which is a part of .NET, is within the Top 10 most-loved web frameworks.

Scalability, Security, and Performance

.NET is a very scalable framework that can accommodate large-scale ecommerce businesses without any issues. Websites built on ASP.NET are known for their performance and stability. ASP.NET comes with built-in security features that protect your website from common attacks

Skilled .NET Developers

.NET technologies are studied at most technical universities around the world, so your business can hire developers on an international playing field with different levels of experience to meet its needs. You can build an ecommerce IT team that will grow your online store to top-of-the-market status.

Business Continuity Support

It's critical to recognize the importance of continuous tool development, which evolves rapidly. Your ecommerce website should be able to live for years and be maintained and updated during that time. ASP.NET has been around since 2001 and continues to evolve with technology.

By 2023, B2B organizations with digital commerce offerings will see 30% more revenue and a 20% reduction in costs, compared to competitors without B2B digital commerce sites.

Gartner®, "Leverage B2B Digital Commerce for Cost Optimization, Improved CX and Revenue Growth", Jason Daigler, 6 July 2020. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission

Learn how Bosch leveraged Virto's 100% customizable .NET eCommerce Platform to launch a marketplace loyalty portal
in 25 countries.

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A Few Words From Our Clients

Here at Bosch Thermotechnik we were looking for a 100% customizable .NET eCommerce platform with superior support options. We had an objective of launching a marketplace loyalty platform that will function smoothly in 25 countries. Eventually, by choosing Virto Commerce we successfully launched the platform, our clientele has become more engaged, and we have increased the turnover.

— Cornelius Munz Digital Solution Engineer

Bosch Thermotechnik

We chose Virto Commerce for the Executive Office of the US Government supply chain solution because it is the only platform that could meet our business user requirements to provide the modern ecommerce shopping experience we wanted, as well as the technical requirements of being customizable, flexible, secure, open source and built on a Microsoft .NET technology stack.

— Isaac Barnes Vice President, Eminent IT

Eminent IT

Delaware partnered with Virto Commerce in order to ensure true scalability for our client Standaard Boekhandel. We have easily extended the product offering and improved the search functionality for their two brands. In short, we found a .NET eCommerce platform that is capable of processing a product catalog of over 15 million products and customer orders in 207 fulfillment centers without any hurdle.

— Stijn De Vos Lead Expert at delaware

delaware

The value of the Virto Commerce scalable platform has been huge for us as a partner, specifically in enabling us to craft a flexible B2B solution without short- and long-term limitations. Virto Commerce has been a great partner for us because they are ready to deliver all B2B scenarios and out-of-the-box technologies that we need.

— Richard Birksteiner
Chief Technology Officer, rb2

rb2

We only adopt technologies that easily enable new business channels, flexibly customize product catalogs, and accurately track overall sales performance and Virto Commerce solves all of these.

— Andreas Kardell CTO at Proffsmagasinet.se

Proffsmagasinet.se

Virto Commerce was the best fit for De Klok Dranken as it combined cost-effectiveness with the functionality, flexibility, and scalability – today and in the long term.

— Michael Theebe Marketing and ecommerce Manager at De Klok Dranken

De Klok Dranken

Thanks to its headless architecture and next-generation features, Virto Commerce has helped us completely rebuild our marketplace solution. Our Virto Commerce Catalog now covers all our complex marketplace scenarios and has materially increased end User eXperience, unlocked new revenue and decreased maintenance cost. Using GraphQL and Elastic Search is just awesome!

— Philippe Stephan Group CTO for Giift.com

Giift.com

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Open-Source .NET eCommerce Platforms Comparison

Learn how the Virto Commerce .NET platform performs against other .NET competitors.

	Virto Commerce	Other .NET Platforms
B2B Features	Out-of-the-box	Additional customizations required
Enterprise Features	Initially designed for B2B companies	Limited
Extensibility	Yes	Limited
Truly Headless Architecture	Yes. Natively API based architecture	No
Cloud-Native	Yes	Yes
Open-Source Platform Architecture	Yes. 100% White-Box	Black-Box solutions with limited flexibility
Fast Launch	2 sprints	2 to 6 sprints
Deployment	SaaS, Cloud, On-premise	SaaS, Cloud, On-premise
Serverless support	Yes	No
Cost-effective Solution: The Lowest TCO	Cost-effectiveness up to 30%	Data not available

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Cloud-Native

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Seamless integrations

Virto’s ecommerce platform is one of the most popular ASP.NET Core ecommerce solutions. Virto Commerce is dedicated to and supports native .NET services, tools, and applications, while seamlessly integrating with practically any other third-party application. Plus, the Virto Commerce platform functionality is exposed as various RESTful or GraphQL APIs that fully satisfy the main principles of service-oriented and API-first architecture.

ASP.NET eCommerce Platform FAQ

What is an open-source e-commerce?

An open-source eCommerce is software tailored for eCommerce business purposes. Most importantly, any user can easily upgrade, integrate, and improve this software since all its code is freely available. This software is primarily cloud-based and not paid, so you can build your website right there. These platforms are widely used, and can be integrated with more advanced solutions like Virto.

Why do people prefer Virto Commerce over other .NET B2B ecommerce platforms?

Virto Commerce is an open-source, API-powered, modular, composable, and headless solution tailored explicitly to B2B companies. The current version is built on a .NET 6 development toolkit, an open-source cross-platform solution for both medium and enterprise-level businesses. The strength of Virto Commerce from 2021 onward is evidenced by the tremendous expansion of its product line. In addition to the classic Virto Commerce .NET-based platform, which can be installed locally or in the cloud, the SaaS version named Virto Commerce Cloud and the specialized Virto Marketplace version were all introduced in 2021-2022.

What is the ASP eCommerce Platform?

The acronym ASP stands for Active Server Pages. The technology was initially presented in 1996 and was so successful that it has been repeatedly improved and updated. Currently, the term ASP is understood as ASP.NET, an open-source, cross-platform framework for building web apps and services using .NET Visual Studio environment and C# or any other programming language. You can learn more about what used to be called ASP.NET Core at What is ASP.NET? | .NET.

Is ASP.NET good for eCommerce?

ASP.NET allows programmers to build dynamic websites, web applications, and services. This tool performs quickly compared to other popular web frameworks against independent TechEmpower benchmarks. However, we clarify that ASP.NET is intended to develop the front end of ecommerce applications with a high-performance WebAPI, such as Rest, GraphQL, and others. For the development of the server side and middleware, other tools from the .NET platform are used. Follow the link for more details about ASP.NET.

What can be built based on ASP .NET open-source ecommerce?

ASP.NET framework is an excellent base for building almost any detail of the eCommerce store. On the front end, this technology is tailored to create standard elements needed for online stores. From Shopping Cards to the integration with payment systems — all are available. An easy and controllable architecture on the back end allows you to scale quickly.

What is an open-source .NET eCommerce Platform?

.NET is an open-source developer platform useful for building a plethora of applications. One important factor is that .NET is free to use for any developer. Consider .NET open-source platform a software development architecture for building, running, and deploying web, desktop, server, and mobile applications. It is not to be confused with ASP.NET. This is an implementation of ASP technology that simplifies the creation of web applications only and is part of the .NET platform. If you want to learn about .NET in greater detail, we recommend this comprehensive article, Announcing .NET 6 — The Fastest .NET Yet.

What is a .NET Core eCommerce Platform?

.NET Core (currently renamed to .NET with no Core in the product name) is an open-source cross-platform implementation of .NET architecture used to build server applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Looking at its history, .NET Core 1.0 was released in 2016 and the next commercial version, .NET Core 3.1 of this framework, got to the market in 2019. In 2020, cross-platform .NET Core merged with Windows-oriented .NET Framework to a unified .NET 5.0 developer platform.

How are .NET ecommerce platforms used?

Consider .NET a cross-platform framework for developing web, server, and mobile applications running on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Developers can use .NET and its libraries to write applications in VB.NET, C #, and F #. Since 2020, the release of new versions of .NET has continued, as unified .NET 5 and .NET 6 platforms support development from both the server side and web applications. .NET is now a platform for building many different types of applications.

Can I use .NET for ecommerce?

By many estimates, .NET is currently among the developer community's top three most popular development environments. The rapid growth of the ecommerce industry attracts many vendors to this arena. With the popularity of .NET and the availability of a large number of skilled .NET developers in the job market, the growth of ecommerce platforms in .NET is skyrocketing. -source .NET ecommerce platforms are highly scalable, secure, and easily upgradeable. So-called “clean” architecture allows the best-ever customization functionality for the back end and interface.

Why Is .NET the Ideal Environment for eCommerce?

.NET is an integrated development platform that is ideal for ecommerce applications. It includes ASP.NET for building web applications, Xamarin as a tool for creating mobile applications in the .NET family of languages (C#, F#, Visual Basic), which allows you to create a single code that runs in Android, iOS, and Windows. Visual Studio and Azure Logic Apps allow you to create different modules for ecommerce applications, and build middleware to integrate ecommerce with other applications, such as your ERP and CRM.

What is a unified commerce platform?

Unified Commerce is not a product but an architectural technique for connecting server systems to front-end channels through a single platform. Thus, omnichannel sales and customer interactions are realized when you can add products to the cart in a mobile application, then continue on the desktop, and finally, press the ‘buy’ button on your smartwatch.

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