Product attributes are a set of characteristics that can describe a specific product. Each product is defined by its features. That means attributes refer to the actual factors, components or ingredients of the product.

We spoke to Leonidas Tsemantzis, CTO at Forward Partners, about why it is so rewarding to work with hungry new companies in the technology sector.

A product variant is a unique feature of the product offered to your clients. When your potential customers shop online, they can view the same product available in assorted, unique variants (identifiers), such as color, size, price, and more.

This article shows how to use Docker Compose to run the full Saleor suite of services: the headless GraphQL API, the dashboard used by staff to manage the store, and the storefront where users can browse and purchase products.

A few best practices that should greatly improve the quality of your A/B testing and bring fast results to your e-commerce business.

Headless—or API-driven—is an architecture where business-logic/server-side is fully decoupled from the front-end experiences. As a result, programmers get full front-end development independence and a painless way to integrate with other APIs.

Make your e-commerce day more productive and get your work done quickly and efficiently with Saleor's Dashboard Navigator. Literally, forget the old ways of navigating - just get to the right place with Cmd+K!

A short six months ago, based on community enthusiasm for Saleor Open Source, we redoubled our efforts to make Saleor the enterprise go-to for developers finding Shopify inflexible and Magento non-performant.

Welcome to the Saleor 2.9 release of Saleor!

• Customize the shape of your products with enterprise-grade attributes. It's a key feature that we've made even more powerful.
• We've introduced plugin architecture. This system gives you the possibility to provide custom logic without any changes in the core.
• Service accounts and Webhooks now allows you to easily integrate Saleor with other services without directly manipulating the source code.
• We've added the variant creator, which helps you to create multiple variants based on attributes assigned to your product type.

Experimentation is now a must for any online business.

Welcome to the June 2019 release of Saleor!

• We've integrated Avalara so Saleor now supports tax calculations in most major markets around the globe
• There are new functionalities and improvements in the payments section, including the ability to store credit card details
• Our Vouchers section has been reworked from scratch and is now as sleek and usable as any e-commerce can offer, as well as having an expanded range of offers you can make to your clients

The decade-long design journey of an e-commerce platform. See how Saleor has evolved from a small e-commerce library to the world's fastest-growing open source platform, and how our design team have reimagined the branding to reflect those changes.

Welcome to the May 2019 release of Saleor!

• We've added the much-requested storefront navigation management feature that helps you configure your site easily
• As we work towards totally filterable content, we've added filtering to the first two dashboard sections
• The order creation flow has been reimagined to make it easier for you to allocate stock and avoid issues with unpaid orders, a great feature for both site usability and security

Welcome to the April 2019 release of Saleor!

• Black has now been introduced to Saleor to help stay on course with essential code formatting and keep our open source project universally maintainable and understandable
• We've also introduced data classes as a universal payment interface for all versions of Python from 3.7 onwards
• You can now complete bulk actions in Dashboard 2.0, such as editing, deleting, or publishing, which saves time and makes for easy overviews of grouped products

Welcome to the March 2019 release of Saleor!

• The Saleor Dashboard 2.0 has been refreshed and updated. And if you love working in the dark, we've added a switch so you can tone down your dashboard at any moment
• The new Address Book feature makes it easier to manage and find customers
• We're announcing the much-anticipated release of Saleor Cloud, a brand new SaaS version of the platform that will go live in 2019

I still remember the moment that Patryk, our Head of Technology, and I discussed rolling out Mirumee’s very own e-commerce software for the first time — well, let’s just say that was tense! ⚡

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A model translations API, three new Dashboard 2.0 sections and great tweaks — welcome to the February 2019 release of Saleor!

• We've added or improved a number of dashboard sections this month, with new features for shipping, pages, and discounts
• Draftail editor now allows you to do rich-text editing directly in the dashboard, for better-looking pages
• Support for model translations is a significant new feature in the GraphQL API
• The PWA Storefront is gathering pace with more new features, including improved checkout flows

New tax management views, Docker configuration improvements, and the first phase of payment refactoring.

• Dashboard 2.0 has gained new features, with tax management and a new, simple way of adding images to products
• We've upgraded the configuration of our Docker files to make them even more stable
• Payment refactoring prepares gateways to be extracted to separate libraries. It's just a step in making bulletproof and customizable payments implementations

A new payment gateway, new features in the Dashboard 2.0 and a refreshed storefront look… Welcome to the December 2018 release of Saleor!

• Stripe payments integration is a major feature that many store owners have been waiting for and comes hot on the heels of adding Razorpay in the last release
• Our design team have delivered a brand new look and feel for Storefront 1.0, with a major style upgrade that improves user experience

Welcome to the November 2018 release of Saleor!

• Playground is now the default API explorer and we've also implemented backward-incompatible API changes
• We've added Razorpay as a payment gateway, further increasing the options for store owners

The next generation of e-commerce solutions has arrived.

Launching the GraphQL-first open source e-commerce for the PWA era.

Welcome to the September 2018 release of Saleor!

• Orders are now easier to track and manage, with new views and an order history timeline for a fast overview of events
• We've improved the staff management views, making it cleaner and easier to use

Welcome to the Summer 2018 release of Saleor!

• Dashboard 2.0 now has great new product management views
• Shipping zones are now easy to assign and manage in a separate module
• We've simplified staff permission management
• You can now translate your dynamic storefront content in a dedicated dashboard section

This month we’re very proud to present the results of more than three months of hard work and endeavour — a GraphQL API! Read on to learn about the changes in this release.