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Smartstore

E-COMM
Velocity0.0

ASP.NET Core based e-commerce platform with CMS and marketing tools

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Smartstore is monetising EU compliance while quietly wiring AI through the admin surface.

ecommercedotneteu-complianceaccessibilityai-authoringcommercial-plugins
◆Current state
The .NET storefront ships one substantial release every six to nine months, each pairing a runtime jump with a batch of features. 6.4.0 moved to .NET 10 and introduced commercial Withdrawal and Warranty plugins built directly against EU rules for digital withdrawal and harmonised guarantee labelling. Before that, 6.3.0 and 6.2.0 ran a sustained WCAG accessibility sweep across the storefront and checkout, and 6.1.0 added DeepSeek and Gemini as AI providers.
◆Where it's heading
Two arcs are running in parallel. Regulatory surface — accessibility, withdrawal, warranty labelling — is being productised as paid plugins, which turns compliance obligations into a revenue line for a project whose core is open source. Separately, AI has moved from a text-writing helper to editing images in the Media Manager by prompt, with the provider list broadening rather than committing to one vendor.
◆Prediction
Expect the next major to continue the pattern: a runtime or framework bump, further EU compliance plugins on the commercial side, and AI reaching more of the catalog and content authoring workflow.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    .NET 10 upgrade plus Withdrawal and Warranty compliance plugins

    Moves to .NET 10 for performance and ships two commercial plugins aimed squarely at EU obligations: online withdrawal submission for eligible orders, and harmonised guarantee and durability labelling. Breaking changes are developer-facing — async method naming, payment method type metadata, and a ReturnRequest to ReturnCase rename.

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  2. 7mo ago

    Smartstore 6.3.0

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    The release where AI stops being a writing assistant and starts editing assets, landing alongside the accessibility sweep that 6.2.0 began. Both threads — regulatory surface and AI in the admin — define what 6.4.0 then built on.

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  3. 10mo ago

    Legacy 5.0 line gets Wallet, PersonalPromo and stricter search

    A maintenance release on the superseded 5.0 branch adding two commercial plugins, an all-terms search mode for MegaSearch, and reverse proxy configuration. Notable mainly as evidence the 5.0 line was still being fed a year after 6.0 shipped.

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  4. 10mo ago

    WCAG pass across account, checkout and catalog surfaces

    Screen-reader accessibility work across language and currency selectors, account and order pages, login and registration, facets, checkout and the offcanvas menu. The start of the compliance arc that 6.3.0 continues and 6.4.0 turns into paid plugins.

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  5. 1y ago

    .NET 9, DeepSeek and Gemini providers, configurable CSP

    Broadens the AI provider list to DeepSeek and Gemini and adds a Continue Writing action in the HTML editor, alongside a configurable Content-Security-Policy header and sitemap alternate links. Provider breadth rather than a new capability — the capability arrives in 6.3.0.

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  6. 1y ago

    Conditional product attributes and quick checkout

    Attributes whose visibility depends on other selections, attribute copying between products, and a quick-checkout path that skips known addresses and payment steps. Conversion and catalog-modelling work, from before the compliance and AI arcs took over the roadmap.

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