Open Sky Commerce

Six months ago I kept getting pulled into the same conversation with clients. They'd already paid someone to build them a Shopify store, it looked fine, but then they'd come to me with a list of things they couldn't do. Needed a feature that required a $40/month app. Couldn't customize the checkout flow the way they wanted because Shopify locks that down unless you're on Plus. Wanted their in-store Square inventory to sync with the website and the Shopify integration for that was either broken or expensive. The platform kept being the ceiling.

Anyway, at some point I realized I was spending more time working around Shopify's limitations than actually solving client problems. So I just built the thing I wanted to hand clients instead.

It's called Open Sky Commerce. Full Next.js 15 codebase — App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind, Prisma, Postgres. You buy it once and you own the code. I wired in four payment processors from the start because my clients weren't all Stripe shops: Stripe, Authorize.net, Clover, and Square. The Clover and Square integrations do live inventory sync via webhooks, which is the thing that actually made this worth building.

First client to use it was a print shop, Summit Printing. Standard storefront stuff, fine. But the reason it was a good test case was they needed a custom job-ticketing system built into the admin — file uploads, job status, notes per order. On Shopify that's a separate app, a separate development project, probably a separate monthly cost. Here it was just part of the build because they own the code.

Solo license is $149, Studio (up to 3 projects + client delivery) is $299, Agency (unlimited, source handoff, white-label) is $599. One time.

Demo: https://commerce.openskydev.com/

Happy to get into the POS sync implementation if anyone's curious, that part had some genuinely annoying edge cases.