Smartstore

Ready. Sell. Grow.

A modular, scalable, and ultra-fast open-source all-in-one eCommerce platform built on ASP.NET Core 10.

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Smartstore is a cross-platform, modular, scalable, and ultra-fast open-source all-in-one eCommerce platform built on ASP.NET Core 10, Entity Framework Core 10, Vue.js, Sass, Bootstrap, and more.

Smartstore includes all the essential features to create multi-language, multi-store, and multi-currency shops, with built-in AI capabilities for text and image generation powered by the world’s leading AI providers — targeting desktop and mobile devices alike. It enables SEO-optimized, rich product catalogs with support for an unlimited number of products and categories, variants, bundles, datasheets, ESD, discounts, coupons, and much more.

A comprehensive set of tools for CRM & CMS, sales, marketing, payment, and shipping makes Smartstore a powerful all-in-one solution that meets all your needs.

Smartstore delivers a beautiful and fully configurable storefront out of the box, built with a high-level design approach using Sass, Bootstrap, and other modern components. The included Flex theme is modern, clean, and fully responsive — giving shoppers the best possible experience on any device.

The state-of-the-art architecture — with ASP.NET Core 10, Entity Framework Core 10, and a domain-driven design approach — makes Smartstore easy to extend, extremely flexible, and a pleasure to work with.

• :house: Website: https://www.smartstore.com
• :orange_book: Developer Guide: Smartstore Developer Guide
• :blue_book: User Guide: Smartstore User Guide
• :speech_balloon: Forum: https://community.smartstore.com
• :mega: Marketplace: https://community.smartstore.com/marketplace
• :earth_americas: Translations: https://translate.smartstore.com
• ▶️ Azure Marketplace: Smartstore on Azure Marketplace

 

Technology & Design

• State-of-the-art architecture with ASP.NET Core 10, Entity Framework Core 10, and domain-driven design
• Cross-platform: runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS
• Docker support out of the box for easy deployment
• Composable, extensible, and highly flexible through a modular architecture
• Highly scalable with full-page caching and web farm support
• Powerful theme engine for creating or customizing themes and skins with minimal effort, thanks to theme inheritance
• Point & Click theme configuration
• Liquid template engine: highly flexible templating for emails and campaigns, with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
• HTML-to-PDF converter: generates PDF documents from standard HTML templates, greatly simplifying PDF output customization
• Consistent use of modern components such as Vue.js, Sass, and Bootstrap across both frontend and backend
• Intuitive shop management through a modern, clean UI

 

Key Features

• Multi-store support
• Multi-language with full RTL (right-to-left) and bidirectional text support
• Multi-currency support
• Product bundles, variants, attributes, ESD, tier pricing, cross-selling, and more
• Sophisticated marketing and promotion capabilities (gift cards, reward points, discounts of any kind, and more)
• AI-powered features for text and image generation, image editing, and image composition
• CMS Page Builder: create compelling, sales-driving content without any coding, using a powerful WYSIWYG editor with a CSS grid system
• Reviews and ratings
• Media Manager: powerful, lightning-fast media file explorer
• Rule Builder: visual business rule creation with dozens of predefined rules out of the box
• Search framework with faceted search support — ultra-fast results even with millions of items
• Extreme scalability through output caching, Redis, and Microsoft Azure support
• Tree-based permission management (ACL) with inheritance support
• Comprehensive import/export framework (profiles, filters, mapping, projections, scheduling, deployment, and more)
• Blog, forum, polls, custom pages, and HTML content
• CMS Menu Builder: visual manager for all menu types — modify existing menus or create your own and place them anywhere
• Modern, clean, SEO-optimized, and fully responsive Bootstrap-based theme
• Hierarchical SEO slug support, e.g. samsung/galaxy/s22/32gb/white
• Trusted Shops pre-certification and full EU GDPR compliance
• 100% compliant with German law
• Sales, customer, and inventory management
• Comprehensive CRM features
• Powerful layered navigation
• Numerous payment and shipping providers and options
• Wallet: supports full or partial order payment via credit account
• TinyImage: achieves ultra-high image compression rates (up to 80%) with WebP support
• Preview Mode: easily test themes and stores before going live
• RESTful Web API

 

AI Features

Smartstore comes with a built-in AI framework that brings generative AI directly into the merchant workflow — no third-party plugins required.

Capabilities

• Text generation: AI-assisted creation and optimization of product descriptions, meta tags, category texts, and other shop content
• Image generation: Create product and marketing images from text prompts directly within the backend
• Image editing: Modify and enhance existing images using AI (background removal, retouching, style transfer, and more)
• Image composition: Combine and merge multiple images into a single, cohesive result

Supported AI Providers

Smartstore integrates with all major AI providers through a unified, provider-agnostic abstraction layer. Switch or combine providers at any time without changing your workflow:

Provider	Text Generation	Image Generation
OpenAI / ChatGPT	✔	✔
Google Gemini	✔	✔
Anthropic Claude	✔	—
DeepSeek	✔	—
Ollama (self-hosted)	✔	—

 

Getting Started

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows 10 or higher / Windows Server 2016 or higher
• Ubuntu 18.04+
• Debian 11+
• macOS 10.11+

Supported Database Systems

• Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Express or higher
• MySQL 8.0+
• PostgreSQL 11+
• SQLite 3.31+

Upgrading from Smartstore.NET 4.2

Smartstore 5+ is a port of Smartstore.NET 4 — based on the classic .NET Framework 4.7.2 — to the modern ASP.NET Core 10 platform. Existing instances based on classic ASP.NET MVC can be upgraded seamlessly. To upgrade, simply replace the application files on your server (keep the App_Data directory intact) and all your data will be migrated to the new system automatically. See the documentation for detailed installation and upgrade instructions.

:information_source: Upgrading from versions earlier than 4.2 is not supported. Please migrate to Smartstore.NET 4.2 first, then upgrade to Smartstore 5+.

Visual Studio

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/smartstore/Smartstore.git and check out the main branch.
2. Download Visual Studio 2026 (any edition).
3. Open Smartstore.sln and wait for Visual Studio to restore all NuGet packages.
4. Set Smartstore.Web as the startup project and run it.

Repository Structure

Project	Description
Smartstore	Common low-level, application-agnostic infrastructure: bootstrapper, modularity engine, caching, pub/sub, imaging, type conversion, I/O, templating, scheduling, utilities, and extension methods
Smartstore.Data	Database providers
Smartstore.Core	Application-specific modules: catalog, checkout, identity, security, localization, logging, messaging, rules engine, search engine, theme engine, migrations, and more
Smartstore.Web.Common	Common web features: custom MVC infrastructure, bundling, Tag Helpers, HTML helpers, and more
Smartstore.Modules	All module and plugin projects
Smartstore.Web	Entry host project: controllers, model classes, themes, and static assets

 

Building Smartstore

Option 1 — Publish from Visual Studio

1. Open the Smartstore solution in Visual Studio 2026.
2. Switch to the Release configuration.
3. Rebuild the solution.
4. Publish the Smartstore.Web host project.

Option 2 — Run a build script

Run the build script for your target platform from the build directory: build.{Platform}.cmd. The output is placed in build/artifacts/Community.{Version}.{Platform} and a zip archive is created in build/artifacts/ automatically.

By default, the script produces a self-contained, platform-specific application that bundles the ASP.NET runtime, so it runs on any machine without a pre-installed .NET runtime.

Smartstore uses Nuke as its build automation solution. You can customize the build process by editing src/Smartstore.Build/Smartstore.Build/Build.cs.

About the src/Smartstore.Web/Modules Directory

During the build, all modules in src/Smartstore.Modules/ are detected, compiled, and placed in src/Smartstore.Web/Modules/. The runtime loads modules dynamically from this directory. During development this folder is not required — you can safely delete it at any time.

Creating Docker Images

Run build/dockerize.{Platform}[.nobuild].sh to create a Docker image.

dockerize.linux.sh

Builds a Debian Linux base image with the full ASP.NET runtime, compiles the solution, and publishes a framework-dependent application inside the container. Also installs the native wkhtmltopdf library required for PDF generation.

dockerize.linux.nobuild.sh

Faster alternative — skips the build step. Requires a pre-built artifact in build/artifacts/Community.{Version}.linux-x64. Creates a Debian Linux base image with only the ASP.NET runtime dependencies and copies the artifact. Also installs wkhtmltopdf.

dockerize.windows.nobuild.sh

Creates a Windows Nano Server base image with only the ASP.NET runtime dependencies and copies the artifact from build/artifacts/Community.{Version}.win-x64. Requires the Docker engine to be running a Windows image.

Creating Docker Containers

Run compose.{DbSystem}.sh to create a ready-to-use Docker container that includes a database server.

compose.mysql.sh

Creates a composite Docker container with the Smartstore application image and the latest MySQL image.

compose.sqlserver.sh

Creates a composite Docker container with the Smartstore application image and the latest MS SQL Server image.

 

Try It Online

We provide a live demo so you can explore Smartstore without a local installation. Test all features in both the storefront and the backend. Note that the backend demo is shared — other testers may modify data simultaneously.

• Storefront (User: demo, Password: 1234)
• Backend (User: demo, Password: 1234)

 

License

Smartstore Community Edition is released under the AGPL license.

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