The Future Of North Commerce

Here at North Commerce, we’ve always been obsessed with one big idea: improving the entire e-commerce landscape. Over the past four or five years, we’ve done that by building on WordPress and giving business owners a familiar, flexible way to create their own stores.

Now, like any good journey, we’ve learned a lot. One of those lessons is that when you try to please everyone, you often please no one. So, we’re streamlining. We’re going all in on the Block Editor to roll out our core features and then gradually expanding from there. This way, business owners can build their entire e-commerce enterprise with North Commerce at a pace that makes sense. The objective here is to focus on one toolset to complete features.

In the immediate future, we’re aiming to help existing e-commerce store owners whether they’re on Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or another platform by offering tools that turn any visit into a high-intent shopping journey. Think of it as a way to create those perfect post-click moments whether it’s from an ad, an email, or any other campaign on a subdomain that lives alongside your existing store. You get to build and test these experiences quickly without messing with your main theme or setup. Each of these North Commerce powered “funnels” will sync with your existing stack and you will have the choice to have them checkout on your primary stores checkout or use the North Commerce native checkout.

We believe that focusing on supporting the millions of existing store owners across every platform will give us greater insight into what we can build for our native toolset and also give us the opportunity to empower store owners almost immediately without any stress of re-platforming, having new integrations and trying to get multiple tools to work together.

But here’s the most important part: we are incredibly grateful for all of you—our community members and paying customers—who have been with us from the start. We’re not giving up. We’re moving forward and building amazing things together. We want everyone to be part of the future of North Commerce and to find success in your businesses using the tools we’re creating just for you.

At the end of the day, our goal remains the same: improve e-commerce as a whole and give you the tools to build faster, measure better, and win customers sooner. We still believe in choice and open source, and we’re committed to building an all-in-one e-commerce solution that truly empowers your business to thrive.