Developing E-commerce Sites with Vendr
E-commerce is a critical part of many websites, but it’s not something that is served by the Umbraco core, instead Umbraco HQ have focussed developer resources on building the CMS product, and developing cloud and headless options.
Vendr from Outfield Digital is a new e-commerce package for Umbraco, and we've chosen it for our next major e-commerce project for Nextbase.
In a new article for Skrift Paul and Gareth introduce Vendr, compare it against the key competition, and then demonstrate how to build a simple webshop using Vendr.
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