Liferay Commerce vs Sylius

Liferay Commerce is software for building, managing, and scaling online stores for B2B and B2C sales. It supports multichannel selling and digital products, with an app marketplace available. For B2B buying, it can handle multiple buyers on an account, negotiated prices, custom catalogs, approval workflows, and ERP and CRM integration. Catalog tools support account-specific prices, tiers, promotions, and discounts; product information can include descriptions, images, videos, attributes, hierarchies, and relationships. The product page describes recommendations based on users’ roles, histories, and previous purchases. APIs and connectors link with ERP, CRM, procurement, order management, shipping, and accounting systems. Headless commerce can extend catalog, pricing, order, and inventory functions into existing portals, apps, and dealer experiences. Liferay DXP is available as SaaS, PaaS, or self-hosted, including on-premises and customer-cloud deployment. A free tier is available for exploration, development, and pre-production. Enterprise subscription pricing depends on deployment model and implementation scope; pricing is available on request.

Sylius is an open-source headless eCommerce platform for mid-market and enterprise brands building custom commerce solutions. Its framework supports B2C and B2B use cases and provides a customizable REST API built with API Platform for headless frontends and microservice architectures. Sylius Standard is a Symfony application with Sylius core as a dependency; it can be installed with Composer or Docker and run on a standard VPS. Docker and Kubernetes are also deployment options for cloud environments. The Addons marketplace lists plugins and third-party integrations. Sylius Plus adds commercial modules such as advanced multi-store, returns management, multi-source inventory, loyalty, partial shipment and request for quotation. Standard is offered under the MIT license with community support and no response-time guarantee; Plus lists SLA-backed support with a one-day response time. Standard has no native quotation process, so customers cannot start price inquiries online. No Standard price is listed. Sylius Plus starts from €800 per year.