This section covers tools that handle payments, checkout, and transactional workflows. Commerce choices primarily determine risk exposure, ownership boundaries, and how tightly business logic is coupled to a platform.
The entries here are not recommendations. They describe different commerce profiles and the tradeoffs they introduce.
Constraint indexes
Low maintenance
Low operational risk
Predictable cost
High control
Fast change
Longevity under neglect
Tool index
Commerce systems trade simplicity, control, and risk in different ways. The appropriate choice depends on which constraints dominate and how much responsibility the operator is willing to carry.