Build full-featured, ultra-fast online shops, marketplaces, or complex B2B applications, including dropshipping and affiliate systems, with a widely used, cloud-native, API-first Symfony eCommerce platform that scales from one to more than one billion items. Aimeos runs on AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
Use the Aimeos Sites extension, which provides hierarchical multi-tenancy out of the box, to create subsites for regional or niche marketplaces, individual vendors, and country-specific portals.
Use all the product types your shop needs and combine them with paid downloads, priced configurable attributes, and custom input attributes. Create complex product types and manage them efficiently with reusable dataset templates.
Scale your eCommerce platform with the #gigacommerce extension. Use Elasticsearch to support virtually unlimited growth as your product catalog expands.
Sell products, services, or virtual goods at flexible intervals, and let Aimeos automatically capture payments through the payment provider whenever subscriptions renew.
Use the Omnipay PHP library to authorize and capture payments through major payment service providers, including PayPal, Stripe, and many others.
Host an unlimited number of full-featured online shops for your merchants in one installation without additional license costs. Each shop can have its own products, inventory, payment and delivery options, and order management.
Get your Symfony online shop running in less than five minutes. Install the package into an existing Symfony application using Composer and run the automated setup command to populate database tables and sample products:
# 1. Install the Aimeos eCommerce bundle
composer require aimeos/aimeos-symfony
# 2. Run the database setup and import demo catalog
php bin/console aimeos:setup --option=setup/default/demo:1
# 3. Clear cache and start the local Symfony server
php bin/console cache:clear
symfony server:startEmbed shop components directly within your Symfony Twig views and controllers with standard container injection:
$shop = $this->container->get('shop');
$this->render( 'Catalog/list.html.twig', [
'listhead' => $shop->get('catalog/lists')->getHeader(),
'listbody' => $shop->get('catalog/lists')->getBody()
]);use \Aimeos\Controller\Frontend;
$cntl = Frontend::create($context, 'product');
$items = $cntl->uses(['text', 'media', 'price'])
->category(123)->text('sneaker')
->sort('name')->slice(0, 48)->search();use \Aimeos\Controller\Frontend;
$cntl = Frontend::create($context, 'catalog');
$catalog = $cntl->uses(['text', 'media']);
$tree = $catalog->getTree();
$list = $catalog->getPath(123);use \Aimeos\Controller\Frontend;
$product = Frontend::create($context, 'product');
$item = $product->uses(['price'])->find('abc');
$basket = Frontend::create($context, 'basket');
$cart = $basket->addProduct($item)->get();
Aimeos is fully compatible with modern Symfony versions, including Symfony 6.4 LTS and Symfony 7.x. It runs seamlessly on PHP 8.2, 8.3, and newer releases, backed by continuous integration testing across all supported Symfony LTS releases.
Aimeos is provided as an open-source Symfony bundle (aimeos/aimeos-symfony) that integrates into any existing or new Symfony application. You have complete architectural freedom: use pre-built Twig templates and controllers for a full turnkey store, embed individual components (such as catalog, cart, or checkout) into existing routes, or run it completely headless.
Yes. Aimeos provides a high-performance JSON:API-compliant REST API and a GraphQL Admin API. You can use Symfony as an API-first backend to power frontends built with Next.js, Nuxt, React, Vue, or native iOS and Android mobile apps.
Aimeos includes hierarchical multi-tenancy out of the box. You can host an unlimited number of vendors and subsites within a single Symfony installation. With the marketplace extension, each merchant receives a dedicated management dashboard, while buyers enjoy a unified storefront with consolidated shopping carts and automated vendor order splitting.
Aimeos features a lightweight architecture with intelligent multi-level caching and a minimal memory footprint (< 4 MB per request). With the gigacommerce extension, catalog search and faceted filtering are offloaded to Elasticsearch or vector databases, maintaining sub-20ms response times even across catalogs with over one billion items (read our #gigacommerce benchmark).
Through the integrated Omnipay PHP library, Aimeos connects to more than 100 payment gateways worldwide, including Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Adyen, Klarna, and Authorize.Net. Shipping integrations support DHL, UPS, FedEx, standard flat rates, and custom delivery calculators.
Yes. The core Aimeos framework and Symfony bundle are free and open source under LGPLv3 and MIT licenses. You have complete code ownership with no recurring subscription fees, gross merchandise volume (GMV) royalties, or vendor lock-in. Commercial enterprise extensions, custom development, and SLA-backed LTS support are available directly from the core team.
Build and deploy with open-source freedom, or partner with the Aimeos core team for enterprise customization, SLA-backed support, and multi-tenant scaling.
