What Is Vanilo?
Vanilo is an E-commerce Framework for Laravel.
Vanilo is the obvious choice for Laravel Developers for building an E-commerce application with full control over the code.
Is It A Ready-To-Use E-commerce Application?
Unlike WooCommerce or PrestaShop, the Vanilo Framework is not an application, but a set of prebuilt Laravel components. You can utilize Vanilo either to:
- add e-commerce features to an existing Laravel Application, or
- to create a new Laravel E-commerce application.
A standalone, ready-made Laravel application is coming in Q1 2025!
Is It Ready For Production?
Yes.
Starting from as early as v0.2 there has been a well-defined upgrade path up until the current latest version.
Refer to Release Notes for more details.
Every component is well-tested, and Vanilo uses the Semantic Versioning Scheme, meaning you won't face unexpected breaking changes.
Why Another E-commerce Package?
Shortly, because back in 2017 there was no decent one particularly for Laravel. There's a slightly longer article on medium about why it came to life.
Alternatives
| Name | Based on | Version (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Vanilo | Laravel 10-11 | 4.2 |
| Bagisto | Laravel 11 | 2.2 |
| Lunar (ex GetCandy) | Laravel 10-11 | 1.0-beta |
| Aimeos | Laravel 10-11 | 2024.10.9 |
| Sylius | Symfony 6.4+/7.1+ | 2.0 |
| ORO Commerce | Symfony 6.4 | 6.0 |
| Magento | Laminas MVC 3.6 | 2.4.7 |
Despite being 8+ years old, this article is still a good read about further e-commerce alternatives: E-commerce Status Quo 2016.
