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Why we moved from a SaaS cart to self-hosted Okommerce

Omar Hassan

Posted 30 Apr 2026 ago · 415 views

After three years on a hosted platform we hit a wall on transaction fees and data ownership. We moved to the Okommerce Community Edition, self-hosted on our own Windows Server, and the difference is night and day — no per-order cut and we own the SQL database outright. The setup wizard had us live in an afternoon. Happy to answer questions if anyone is considering the same.

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Vikram Nair · 29d

This matches our experience exactly. The transaction fee on our old platform was quietly eating ~2% of revenue. Owning the source is the real win for us.

Fatima Iqbal · 12d

How did the catalogue migration go? We have ~12k SKUs and I'm nervous about the import.

Omar Hassan · 2d

@Fatima the xlsx importer handled 5k+ rows for us without duplicating categories. Map your Category/Subcategory/Item Type columns and it builds the tree automatically. Do a dry-run on the preview step first.

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