Commerce Weavers is taking responsibility for building the Open Mercato financial module. The first iteration covers the chart of accounts and general ledger. We're starting with these because the accounting areas that follow need a common place to record financial data. In this article, we explain why we chose this order, how the new foundation is intended to work with existing modules and what else is included in the planned scope. This is the first part of a series on the Open Mercato financial module – in the following parts, we'll report on progress in the next areas.
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Choosing a framework may seem like a purely technical decision. In practice, however, it affects much more than how developers write code. The technology can influence application development and maintenance costs, extensibility, integrations with other systems, access to specialists and even how easily you can switch software providers. One of the frameworks used to build PHP projects is Symfony. It was created in 2005 by the French company SensioLabs and has since grown into a mature ecosystem of components, tools, documentation and specialists.
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AI is becoming an increasingly important part of the day-to-day work of e-commerce development teams. It helps generate code, write tests, analyze existing solutions, create documentation and navigate unfamiliar parts of a project more quickly. In e-commerce platform development, this sounds particularly attractive. Projects are complex, backlogs are long and developer time is expensive. If some of the work can be completed faster with AI, a natural question follows: can artificial intelligence genuinely shorten development time and, as a result, reduce the time and cost of an e-commerce implementation?
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Deciding to migrate to Sylius 2 is only the beginning. In practice, the success of the upgrade depends much more on preparation than on the update process itself.
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Upgrading from Sylius 1 to Sylius 2 can be the right decision, but it will not be the best direction for every project. Before planning the migration, it is worth assessing the current state of the platform, the team’s capabilities, maintenance costs, future roadmap and potential alternatives to Sylius.
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Until recently, building a custom CRM, ERP, or operational backend meant months wiring up low-level infrastructure. Open Mercato changes that calculus: an open-source AI-Engineering Foundation Framework for bespoke CRM, ERP, WMS, and B2B backends built for the AI era.
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In the world of e-commerce, selecting a technology platform is no longer just a feature-set decision. For a CTO, it is primarily an architectural choice that dictates system scalability, infrastructure maintenance costs, and the long-term velocity of product development.
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Increasingly, engineering teams maintaining e-commerce platforms based on Sylius 1.x are reaching a critical point where planning a migration to the next version is no longer optional. With the fast-approaching End of Life (EOL) for older tech stacks and the rapid evolution of the Symfony-based framework, upgrading to Sylius 2 has become a cornerstone of many organizations' technological roadmaps.
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Implementing Sylius is more than just a technology shift; it’s a maturity test for your entire organization. Even the best framework won't save a project if the backend team lacks Symfony depth or the frontend team doesn't grasp the Headless philosophy. This guide for CTOs and Tech Leads outlines how to plan your tech stack, execute effective onboarding, and avoid 7 critical errors that can "kill" a project.
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If you’ve ever had that gut feeling that your e-commerce system isn’t quite right, you’re probably onto something. Maybe it’s the pages that load just a little too slowly. Or those bugs that seem to come and go without explanation. Or perhaps it’s the way developers avoid certain parts of the codebase like it’s cursed. Sounds familiar? That’s where a Quality & Performance Audit comes in.
Read more →We go deep under the hood of backend engineering. Navigate from Doctrine ORM query optimization and performance profiling to implementing asynchronous processes with Symfony Messenger. Explore the exact design patterns required for custom Sylius deployments at a high-volume scale. We focus entirely on solving complex engineering bottlenecks, ensuring robust application security, and mastering automated testing pipelines with Behat and PHPUnit. Strictly practical. Code-driven.
