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Whitepapers & deep dives.

Long-form guides written for procurement teams, architects, and operators. The first ones are being written now.

How to think about our whitepapers.

These are the documents we ourselves want when evaluating a platform — written by the engineers and operators who did the work, not by content marketers. Where the honest answer is "it depends," we say so, and they're useful even if you never buy Vendor.

In the works.

MigrationComing soon

The 2026 replatforming guide

A field guide to scoping, sequencing, and surviving a commerce replatform — data mapping, integration inventory, and a cutover runbook included.

MigrationComing soon

Migrating from WooCommerce without downtime

How to move a live WooCommerce store to Vendor — catalog and order import, URL redirects, and a zero-downtime cutover plan.

OperationsComing soon

Multi-warehouse fulfilment: routing, stock & SLAs

Designing stock-per-location, order routing, and fulfilment SLAs for retailers shipping from more than one site.

PaymentsComing soon

Payments & PCI-DSS 4.0 for online retailers

What PCI-DSS 4.0 actually requires of a merchant, how redirect-based checkout keeps you in SAQ A, and how to add local payment methods.

GrowthComing soon

Checkout conversion: a teardown of 12 storefronts

Twelve real checkout flows, what they get right and wrong, and the changes that moved conversion the most.

LocalizationComing soon

Selling across Balkan & EU markets

Currency, language, tax, and payment-method considerations for selling across six markets from one platform.

B2BComing soon

The B2B commerce playbook

Price lists, approvals, net terms, and account hierarchies — what B2B sellers need from a commerce platform and how to model it.

GrowthComing soon

Protecting SEO through a platform migration

A pre- and post-launch checklist to keep rankings intact when you move platforms — redirects, metadata, and crawl management.

Need a custom whitepaper?

Procurement teams sometimes ask for a tailored architecture write-up. We do these on request — usually 1–2 weeks turnaround.