Backend first
The commerce primitives — catalog, inventory, media, content, orders, audit — are the product. Storefronts are a presentation layer, not the platform.
About litecommerce
A commerce backend that refuses to be a template.
Most platforms force a hosted storefront on you and call the API an afterthought. litecommerce inverts that — the API and the admin are the platform, and your storefront is whatever you want it to be.
The thesis
Commerce is a backend problem.
Catalog, inventory, media, audit, multi-tenant safety, and durable data live on the server. Branding, layout, and interaction live in the browser. litecommerce keeps those two responsibilities clean.
The result: merchants pick any frontend — Next.js, Astro, plain HTML, or a native app — and consume one stable REST API from all of them.
BYO frontend, always
Build your storefront on the stack you want and use the same REST API. Hosted checkout and customer account pages are available through litecheckout, and both are optional — you can build your own checkout and account experience.
Multi-tenant from day one
Every row is tenant-scoped. Every API guard enforces it. No service-role credentials ever reach the browser.
Honest about what ships
If a capability is live, we ship it. If it isn't, we badge it. We'd rather under-promise than send prospects to a page full of fiction.
Audit by default
Admin writes, auth events, API-key rotations, and platform support access are recorded and queryable.
What litecommerce hosts
The boring-but-critical parts.
Optional hosted checkout and accounts
We encourage you to build on your own stack. You can also choose litecheckout for hosted checkout, customer account pages, or both, alongside your own storefront.
litecommerce runs the backend API, the merchant admin where tenants manage their catalog and operations, the platform admin for our internal staff, and the public marketing and documentation sites.
Your storefront stays with you. Our customer examples show how different businesses build their own frontends against the same commerce backend.
REST APItenant-scoped, OpenAPI-ready
Merchant adminstaff sign-in, permissions, org switching
litecheckoutoptional hosted checkout + account pages
Platform admininternal litecommerce ops
Marketing + docsyou are here
Customer Examples
Different businesses. One commerce backend.
Explore the businesses using litecommerce for retail and B2B services, and see the customer experiences coming next.