Enterprise-Grade · B2B & B2C · Both at the Core

Built for B2B.
Built for B2C.
Both at the core.

An enterprise-grade headless commerce platform where wholesale and retail are first-class citizens — not plugins, not afterthoughts. One of the most powerful promotions engines in commerce. Shipping, rethought. Hosted or on-prem.

Deploy Vectis See What's Inside
terminal
$ cd vectis && make setup && make up
✓ PostgreSQL · Redis · Redpanda · Typesense · Temporal · MinIO
✓ API :8000 · Admin :5173 · Storefront :5174 · Worker · Consumer
$ curl localhost:8000/health
{"status": "healthy", "version": "0.1.0"}

Built With

Python Python
Svelte SvelteKit
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
GraphQL GraphQL
Temporal Temporal
Redpanda
Typesense Typesense
Paraglide JS

Origin

Why we built Vectis.

We tried the other commerce platforms. Open-source frameworks and the big hosted SaaS names alike. Each one picks a lane. B2C platforms treat wholesale as a plugin afterthought. B2B platforms strip out the merchandising, promotions, and storefront polish that retail needs. Nobody runs both with the same confidence.

Multi-location accounts, tiered pricing, net terms, approval workflows — in most platforms these are bolted on, not modeled. Promotions? A weak coupon system at best. Shipping? Duplicated carrier configs with no concept of the box itself. Extensibility? Usually a handful of webhooks with no real access to the internals that matter.

Performance is the other half of the problem. ORMs generating N+1 queries. No caching strategy for expensive operations like multi-tier pricing resolution. Systems that crumble under the catalog sizes and pricing complexity real businesses actually run.

So we stopped patching and started building. In Vectis, both B2B and B2C are first-class citizens of the core data model. Every module — accounts, pricing, promotions, fulfillment, order flow — is designed to serve wholesale and retail side by side. Channels let each audience have its own rules, pricing, visibility, and checkout, all on one engine, one catalog, one API. Hosted or on-prem, with every feature included from day one.

The problem

Platforms pick a lane. B2B or B2C — one side always suffers.

The reality

Duct-taped data models, weak promotions, shipping built backwards, brittle extensibility.

The answer

B2B & B2C both at the core. Serious promotions. Boxing-first shipping. Every feature, every tier.

Philip N. Deatherage

Philip N. Deatherage

Founder

From the Founder

Vectis isn't a first project. It's the product of 30 years of building, running, and scaling e-commerce businesses — from the warehouse floor to the architecture whiteboard. Wholesale, distribution, multi-channel retail. The patterns that work, the mistakes that don't, and the frustration of watching platforms ignore the complexity that real-world B2B and B2C commerce actually demand.

That experience is in every decision. Why the pricing engine has five tiers instead of one. Why net terms and approval workflows are core modules, not plugins. Why the order state machine is configurable — because every business has a different flow and no platform should dictate yours. Why the admin panel puts the information operators actually need front and center, not buried three clicks deep.

Vectis is built by someone who's lived the problem. The goal isn't just a technically sound platform — it's one that's intuitive for the people who use it every day: warehouse managers, sales reps, buyers placing 500-line orders at 6am. If it doesn't make their job easier, it doesn't ship.

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