A relaxed evening of ideas, updates, and empanadas

On May 8, we hosted the second VELOX community evening at our Zürich office to catch up with friends, partners, and fellow developers. Over drinks and fresh empanadas, we shared what we’ve been working on with VELOX and where things are headed next.

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The Story Behind VELOX

René opened the session with a short recap of how VELOX came to be. After years of building eCommerce solutions with big-name platforms like Magento and Hybris, we realized something was missing: flexibility. VELOX was our answer—an open-source foundation that’s simple to extend, easy to integrate, and built for developers who want control without overhead.

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What’s New

We walked through some of the latest features:

• A full B2B customer journey, including impersonation and branch-level ordering
• A smoother My Account section with order history and company settings
• A new wishlist module
• Product search powered by OpenSearch, with synonym support and language-based indexing

VELOX now supports everything you’d expect from a modern B2C and B2B shop—without locking you in.

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Real-World Projects

We also shared a few projects from the last year:

• Sonepar uses VELOX to manage delivery tracking and returns for their construction customers—hosted on Azure and integrated with their BI systems.
• Bity, a crypto company in Neuchâtel, used VELOX to quickly build a digital gold shop on top of their existing stack.
• NYFFOX, built with TecHUB partners, runs on AWS with integrations like Storyblok CMS, iFAS ERP, and Postmark for emails.

Each project showed how VELOX can adapt to real business needs—fast.

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Under the Hood

Marco shared a few key updates from the backend team:

• We've cleaned up the service architecture by splitting code into separate modules (client, DTO, service)
• We’ve added support for custom metadata, so you can store any kind of data in orders, carts, or customers

We use Renovate to keep dependencies up to date, and everything is tested through GitLab pipelines.

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On the frontend, we’ve switched to React, Next.js, and Tailwind—with a new admin UI to match.

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As the sun set, the projector dimmed and the networking began. It was a pleasure to reconnect, exchange ideas, and hear feedback from the community. We’re grateful to everyone who joined us—and excited for what’s next.

Want to get involved or learn more about VELOX? Reach out or check out velox.swiss.

En Guete und Prost!
— The Sly Team