Is Payload being used for ecommerce?

[designrevolutions]

I've tried doing research on this and can't find conclusive answers.
Are there many people using for ecommerce?

There is a template for ecommerce - but that's in beta still according to ChatGPT.

Would like to know before I try myself and spend time implementing.

Also: where do I go for posting questions? This forum doesn't seem to have much traffic.
The Payload forum is closed for new registrations?

Thanks.

[Sagargupta16]

Yes, and the first-party route is the @payloadcms/plugin-ecommerce plugin plus the ecommerce template, both maintained in this repo. ChatGPT is right about the status: the plugin docs open with a banner saying it "is currently in Beta and may have breaking changes in future releases", and the template README says the same. It ships on the normal Payload cadence though: npm latest is 3.92.1, the same version as the current Payload release of 2026-10-27, and a beta tag tracks Payload 4 (4.0.0-beta.6 today). What is in it now: products with variants, carts, orders and transactions, customer addresses, guest checkout, currencies, and a Stripe adapter for payments.

On adoption, the only public number is npm: about 19,000 downloads of the plugin in the week of 2026-10-23 to 29, against 1.54 million for payload itself, so roughly one install in eighty pulls it. Shops built on Payload before the plugin existed wired Stripe themselves or started from the older ecommerce template, so the plugin is the first first-party answer and still young, which is what the beta banner is telling you.

On where to ask: the Discord (https://discord.gg/payload) is where most help happens, and these Discussions are slow (29 threads opened since 1 October, 2 marked answered). The "forum" that looks closed is https://payloadcms.com/community-help, which is an archive of past Discord and GitHub threads for searching, not a place to post.