Aimeos
aimeos.orgBuild Difficulty: 3/5
Plan for 1-2 weeks of building with AI assistance
THE Cloud-native and API-first PHP eCommerce Framework
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Features
115 features across 39 categories
API(2)
Sophisticated GraphQL admin API for easy shop content management
World class JSON REST API following jsonapi.org standard for building custom frontends and progressive web applications
Accessibility(1)
Frontend works also without Javascript enabled
Administration(7)
Dashboard with latest orders and sales graphs
Integrated catalog and product management including stock levels
Full customer management interface
Plugin management for basket actions and extensions
Copy products including associated items
Management of subscriptions with automatic renewal
Management of suppliers
Architecture(1)
Build multi-tenant e-commerce SaaS solutions with unlimited number of ultra-fast online shops in one installation
Audit(1)
Action log of all changes in the system
Catalog(3)
Multiple texts, images and attributes per category with time-based content
Unlimited number of products and categories with unlimited category tree depth
Ability to temporarily deactivate products and categories
Checkout(2)
Configurable address fields with support for multiple delivery addresses and country/state selection
Flexible, configurable one-page or multi-step checkout with reorderable steps
Cloud(1)
Perfect fit for AWS, Google, Azure or any Kubernetes-based clouds
Communication(4)
Email notifications for delivery status changes including dispatched, delivered and returned
HTML and text versions of order confirmation emails with customizable content
Email notifications for payment status changes including refunds, pending, authorization and receipt
Email notifications for watched products including back in stock and price reduction alerts
Content(1)
WYSIWYG editor for content creation
Customer Features(4)
Product favorite list functionality for customers
Track and display last seen products per user
Allow customers to pin products for quick access
Product watch list for back in stock and price reduction notifications
Customer Management(1)
Native CMS or application customer accounts with full order history
Customization(2)
Highly configurable with approximately 2,500 options and exchangeable components
Modular templates that can be easily overwritten in own extensions
Data Management(2)
Flexible product import using CSV files asynchronously
CSV imports and exports for products and other data
Deployment(2)
Easy installation and update process
Installable on most web hosting platforms
Design(4)
Highly customizable via CSS with individual styling per category and product
Built with fully HTML5 and CSS3 based design
Support for responsive images of multiple formats
Responsive web design supporting screens down to 320px
Development(4)
Extremely structured code with high quality scored at 9/10 points
Features can be added by decorators without extending the classes
Object oriented PHP 8 code with design patterns for optimal solutions
Well documented code with approximately 150,000 lines of comments
Frontend(1)
jQuery for dynamic features and improved usability
Infrastructure(2)
Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server and DB2
Data distributable over several and different databases
Integration(3)
Import delivery/payment status batch updates asynchronously
Native integration into applications and frameworks
Social network integration including Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and more
Inventory(1)
Dynamic stock level information with pre-order and back in stock capabilities
Localization(3)
Localized price, number and date formats
Multi-language and multi-currency capable with translations in 30+ languages
Extremely simple and comfortable translation to new languages via Transifex
Maintenance(1)
Hassle-free database update from any previous version
Marketing(3)
Create products bought together recommendations like Amazon
Cross selling with suggested products and products bought together like Amazon
Time-based product offers and promoted products per category
Marketplace(1)
Build marketplaces with multi-vendor, multi-channel and multi-warehouse capabilities
Media(2)
Support for Images, PDF, video and audio content
Automatic image scaling with configurable sizes
Mobile(1)
Optimized for smart phones and tablets
Orders(2)
Full order management with list and detail views including order history
Reserves products until payment is authorized or received
Payments(14)
Authorize.net payment provider integration
CardSave payment provider integration
Cash on delivery payment method
Direct debit payment method support
Invoice payment method support
Mollie payment provider integration
Configurable discounts and costs per payment method with fixed and percentage options
Support for 100+ payment gateways via Omnipay PHP library
Configurable availability of payment methods based on address country, basket content, order history and customer scoring
PayPal Express payment provider integration
Pre-payment payment method
Separate authorize and capture of payments with ability to cancel pending payments
Refund payment functionality
Stripe payment provider integration
Performance(6)
Asynchronous jobs for long running tasks and product/order related operations
Block level caching for ultra-fast 20ms render times
Proved to handle 10,000 and more orders per day
Up to 100,000 products out of the box with standard MySQL
Low resource usage of 3-6MB per request
Scale infinitely with support for shops from 1 to 1,000,000,000+ items that render in 20ms
Pricing(2)
Support for block pricing on products
Individual tax rates per product, rebate and payment/delivery option with multiple tax types
Products(10)
Create configurable products with customizable options and attributes
Support for custom product types with extended functionality
Create event-based products for time-based events
Unlimited number of product attributes and attribute types
Create bundle products combining multiple articles
Unlimited number of pictures per product with image zoom and slider
Support for product variant attributes with dependent variants
Turn every product into a subscription with recurring payment at arbitrary time intervals
Support for virtual products with downloads
Sell voucher products with custom prices
Promotions(3)
Coupon codes with configurable counts and customer-specific codes with start/expiration dates
Configurable free shipping promotions
Fixed price and percentage rebates with multiple discount limitations
Quality Assurance(1)
More than 6,000 tests with over 17,500 assertions
SEO(4)
Custom and translatable HTML meta tags for categories and products
Send catalog updates to search engines and create site maps for search engines
Fully SEO optimized with Google-readable product data, deep links, readable URLs and canonical URLs
Automatic XML sitemap generation for search engines
Search(3)
Support for SOLR/ElasticSearch for handling more than 1 billion products
Faceted search with product counts based on categories and attributes
High speed full text search with auto suggestion while typing
Security(4)
Access and rights management via application or framework
Supports Content Security Policy against cross site scripting attacks (XSS)
PCI compliant payment processing via payment gateways
Security layer with white lists against SQL injection
Shipping(4)
Configurable discounts and costs per delivery method with fixed and percentage options
Configurable availability of delivery methods based on address country, basket content, order history and product properties
Flexible delivery provider interface with configurable discounts and costs
Receive single delivery status updates and process batch files with status updates
Shopping Cart(2)
Standard basket with AJAX support for adding, updating or deleting products
Small basket display on all pages with AJAX support
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Integrations
14 known integrations