Storefront and catalog
Custom design, pages, navigation and search. Product packs, flavor and option pickers, galleries per variant, and redirects that keep your rankings.
Crost Commerce
For all kinds of e-commerce, specializing in high-risk retail
A custom ecommerce platform for high-risk stores, built to your spec — not around what you have.
Crost Commerce is a custom ecommerce platform for all kinds of online stores, specializing in high-risk and age-restricted merchants such as vape, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms retailers, built around the team that actually runs your store — how they take orders, handle payments, check IDs and ship — on a private deployment that we operate. No app marketplace, no theme to fight, no "the platform can't do that."
Built around your teamYour own deploymentRun by Crost
Crost Commerce is for online stores of every kind, and it specializes in high-risk and age-restricted retailers — vape, alcohol, tobacco, firearms — that have outgrown what a shared platform allows, or been asked to leave one. We build the software to fit the people running the store, not the other way around: if your team can describe how they work, we build the platform to work that way. Every build is scoped and estimated before work starts.
What's included
Everything a store needs, built in — not bolted on
A back office your staff already understand
Draft orders, order editing, fulfillment, returns, refunds, inventory, store credit, gift cards and reporting — laid out the way your team already works, so nobody has to relearn their job.
Age and risk controls
Age verification at checkout, payment capture only after verification, manual and alternative payment flows, and shipping rules by product and destination. You set the rules for your products and destinations; Crost builds them in. Legal compliance remains the merchant's responsibility.
Integrates with almost anything
Payment processors, ID verification, shipping and tax services, email, loyalty, accounting — we integrate almost any third-party API or plugin directly into the platform, so the tools your team relies on keep working.
Automation built in
Every operation is available to automation, so the routine work your team does by hand — reconciliation, stock updates, payment reminders, reporting — can run itself, or be driven by an AI assistant.
How a build works
From how your team works to software that works the same way
1
Meet the team
We sit with the people who run the store — orders, payments, compliance, fulfillment, support — and learn how they actually work, not how a platform assumes they do.
2
Write the spec
Workflows, rules and integrations written around that team — scoped and estimated before work starts.
3
Build and stage
Your store is built on its own deployment and tested with the people who will use it, on real products, payments and emails.
4
Migrate the data
If you're moving from another platform, customers, orders, discount codes, reviews and history move with their dates intact.
5
Launch and run
Traffic moves. We operate the deployment from day one.
$50,000+Daily sales across stores running on Crost Commerce (Oct 2026)
Your own private deployment
Talk to us about your store One store per deployment. Nothing shared.
Crost Commerce isn't a multi-tenant platform. Your store runs on its own private deployment — its own database, its own code, its own domain — and Crost operates it.
Crost Commerce is built on Medusa, the open-source commerce framework, so the platform under your store isn't tied to a vendor's product roadmap or category rules.
Built for control
Fewer dependencies, fewer surprises
Your age and shipping rules are built into the platform.
No per-app monthly fees.
Staging before anything goes live.
Legacy URLs mapped so existing links and rankings have somewhere to land.
Questions
What running a store on Crost Commerce involves
Is Crost Commerce a hosted platform like Shopify?
No. Each store runs on its own private deployment with its own database, code and domain. Crost operates that deployment; nothing is shared with other stores.
Can it do something a platform usually can't?
The platform is built around the people who run your store. If your team can describe how they work — a payment flow, a compliance rule, a reporting job — it is scoped, estimated and built into the system rather than bolted on as an app.
How are age-restricted products handled?
Age verification runs at checkout, payment is captured only after verification, and shipping rules apply by product and destination. The rules are yours and live in your system.
Can it work with the services we already use?
Almost any third-party API or plugin can be integrated directly into the platform — payment processors, ID verification, shipping, tax, email, loyalty, accounting. Integration is scoped as part of the build.
What if we are moving from another platform?
Customers, orders, discount codes, reviews and history move with their dates intact, and the old store stays live until the new one is proven. See how a migration works, read a completed move, or book a migration audit.
What does it cost?
There is no public price list. Every build is scoped and estimated before work starts. Crost replies within one business day.