Merchello is a high performance, designer friendly, open source Umbraco CMS package built for the store owner.

In version 1, Merchello supports a large variety of products with options that can be attached to a single warehouse, processes orders, manages taxes and shipping, and sends out email notifications to your customers. The beauty of Merchello is that while it oversees all of your products, orders, and store settings, it allows Umbraco to maintain your content. This seamless integration gives you the flexibility to build your store in any way imagineable on a robust platform capable of handling a wide variety of store sizes.

Merchello comes with the following core features, but it's also built so you can expand on it to your needs. Here's what you get right out of the box:

• Products with options and variants
• Flat rate shipping provider (by weight or price) for a single warehouse that can be adjusted by country and region
• Cash payment provider (for cash, check, cod, pay by phone, etc)
• Both invoicing and orders, created with each purchase
• Multiple currencies
• Product Picker datatype for Umbraco that lets you connect your Merchello product with your Umbraco content.

You can download releases of Merchello via our package on our.umbraco.org

Merchello's documentation is started and an active work in progress http://merchello.com/documentation

Merchello's forum is an extension of it's project package on our.umbraco.org, and if you have questions about use, implementation, or have ideas you want to share with us to make it better, then this is the best way to contact us! However, we also have a discussion group on Google Groups and if something isn't working like it should, we'd love if you'd submit an issue report.

We would love and need your help. If you want to contribute to Merchello's core, the easiest way to get started is to fork the project on GitHub and open src/Merchello.sln in Visual Studio. We're excited to see what you do!

If you don't want to dip your fingers into the core, one of the best ways you can contribute to Merchello is by letting us know if something is going wrong. This feedback is very useful to us - we can't catch them all! To view existing issues or submit one of your own, visit issues.merchello.com.