Saleor started in 2012 as an internal e-commerce project at Mirumee Software, a Polish software consultancy. The team open-sourced it because they kept rebuilding similar storefronts for different clients and figured the community would benefit from a solid, modern foundation.
The platform is built entirely in Python using Django and exposes a GraphQL API as its primary interface. There’s no traditional storefront baked in — it’s headless by design. Frontend teams can build with React, Next.js, Vue, or whatever framework they prefer, pulling product data and handling checkout through the API.
Saleor’s dashboard is a React-based admin panel that handles product management, orders, customer data, and configuration. The platform supports multi-channel selling, multi-warehouse inventory, and flexible pricing with per-channel overrides. Webhooks and an app system let developers extend the platform without forking the core.
Saleor Cloud, the hosted version, launched as a managed offering for teams that don’t want to handle infrastructure. It includes auto-scaling, CDN, and managed databases. The open-source version remains free and actively maintained on GitHub.
The project has accumulated over 20,000 GitHub stars and attracted contributions from hundreds of developers. Companies like Breitling and Carlos Santana’s merchandise operations use Saleor in production. The team behind Saleor is around 80 people, mostly engineers based in Wroclaw.
