Open source commerce development means that your organization gets to create a custom experience for both your business workflow and your customer experience, using standardized modules of code. Open source code is supported by a community of responsible global developers and leaders to provide a development framework and starting point for everyone's use.

At Acro Media, we take being an active part of open source solutions seriously. We invest in the open source community and donate thousands of hours to features and improvements every year to the base code. This benefits not only massive companies with thousands of websites but simple websites that serve very niche markets that use the code as well.

The two biggest reasons to use open source software to power your digital experience platform are: customizability and data sovereignty. Open source runs on the principle of peer-production, decentralizing control of the software and encouraging open collaboration, worldwide. Open source as a fundamental concept is license free, and available to the general public. That means you can customize it to match your business needs, and you remain in control of your company and customer data.

Generally, open source software has a huge ecosystem of fully maintained tools and plug-ins that enhance and integrate as needed. The scale and approach of flexibility in open source is a key differentiating factor when compared to other solutions.