Alternatives for custom ecommerce backends

[Davidian]

Clients always ask for standard features but then throw in some crazy custom routing at the last minute. Doing all that work from absolute zero definitely eats up way too many billable hours and delays the launch. You could look into headless setups with something like Saleor since it handles the heavy lifting for the backend while letting you customize the frontend completely. There is also the option of using Laravel with some specialized packages to handle the cart logic without writing the entire database schema yourself. Both of those give you a lot of flexibility for weird integrations.