Regardless of the choice to use a closed or open platform, sometimes change is necessary. Change can be small, such as swapping payment providers. Or it could be that a merchant has outgrown their agency or wants to move away from an internal team. Open commerce ecosystems can be a safe bet in this case, especially when developer education is freely available, and the stack is easy to learn – as is the case with Shopware. And in the rare occasion when a merchant outgrows a platform, the data remains under the merchant’s control, facilitating migration.
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TCO is perhaps the most misunderstood and abused metric across the commerce landscape – it’s magical how every platform manages to have the best/lowest TCO, right? Open commerce azerbaijan telegram screening platforms might seem the risky choice here, especially when they are self-managed rather than hosted by the platform vendor.
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However, the purported TCO advantages of black box systems are offset by two categories of cost: the literal cost of licensing, transaction, and extension fees, and the insidious opportunity cost of not being able to deliver or to drive exactly what your customers need due to the limitation of closed platforms.