About J2Commerce
Adam Melcher and Olivier Buisard took over J2Store, the ecommerce extension for Joomla, in 2024 and rebuilt it from the ground up as J2Commerce 6, on Joomla’s own architecture.
Our Story
J2Commerce is the current name of J2Store, the ecommerce extension for Joomla. This is how it got here.
J2Store was a widely used ecommerce extension for Joomla, and agencies, freelancers and store owners ran real businesses on it. When its original development ended, Adam Melcher, who had built many stores on it, asked Olivier Buisard to join him in taking it over. The two knew each other from Joomla Day USA, where Adam had joined the team that organizes the annual event.
In October 2024 the two took over stewardship of J2Store. The former developers, led by Ramesh Elamathi, handed over the extensions already migrated to Joomla 4 and many still on Joomla 3, and the new team filled the remaining gaps one by one. A new website with downloads, documentation and a support ticket system followed, along with a better migration tool from J2Store 3 to 4 and a steady run of patches.
J2Store was built on an outside framework and jQuery. J2Commerce 6 replaces both and runs on Joomla 6’s own architecture, so your store upgrades alongside Joomla. The J2Commerce 6 page covers what changed, and the migration page covers how stores move across.
Our Timeline
Here is how J2Store became J2Commerce 6, from the change of stewardship to the date still ahead.
October 2024
Adam and Olivier Buisard take over stewardship of J2Store from its original developers.
Early 2025
Payment, shipping and app extensions get fresh releases, and language packs in 29 languages arrive in March.
March 2026
The rebuilt component goes public, where every issue and pull request is open to read.
May 2026
J2Commerce 6 releases arrive on the download page, with a migrator that brings J2Store stores across.
October 19, 2026
J2Store 4 continues in maintenance mode with regular and security updates, and both versions migrate to J2Commerce 6.
J2Commerce exists to give Joomla stores more out of the box than any other free ecommerce platform, to keep Joomla ecommerce current, and to stay close to what store owners, agencies and freelancers need.
Our Vision
J2Commerce 6 is the actively developed line, and where it goes next is public.
Support follows Joomla’s own release cycle, so your store runs a version of J2Commerce that matches the Joomla underneath it.
Every issue is public. So are the fixes. The public roadmap shows what is being explored, built and released.
Documentation, translations and patches can all be contributed on GitHub, and staying close to Joomla’s own conventions keeps extensions simple to build.
What We Value
These principles shape how J2Commerce is written, released and supported.
Where the old code invented its own way of doing something Joomla already did, Joomla’s way won. Layout overrides behave the way they do everywhere else in Joomla.
Feedback from agencies, freelancers and store owners set the first priorities: Joomla 4 compatibility, simpler migration and the essential extensions.
The Team
The people who build J2Commerce also answer the support tickets, so your report reaches someone who knows the code.
Co-Founder
Adam Melcher has been building Joomla ecommerce websites since 2008, and today he helps build J2Commerce. His posts share what years of launching, migrating and growing Joomla stores have taught him, so you can put proven ideas to work in your own store.
Co-Founder
Olivier Buisard has been building websites since 1997 and runs Simplify Your Web, maker of Joomla extensions such as Latest News Enhanced and Article Details. He served as a release manager for Joomla 4.3, leads the Joomla Enhancement Development Team, and has been building J2Commerce with Adam Melcher since late 2024. His posts give you an insider view of where Joomla and J2Commerce are heading.
Community
Owners, agencies and developers meet on GitHub, at the user group and in the partner directory.
Reproducible defects, feature requests and pull requests, filed on the public repository.
An independent, volunteer-run monthly meeting for store owners and the agencies who build for them, built around real stores.
A directory of who builds on J2Commerce, where they work and what they are good at. Every partner chose to be listed.
Get in Touch
Pick the route that fits your question.
Sales, partnership and billing questions reach a real person who can answer them.
A technical problem with something you bought goes to a support ticket, which arrives with your order, license and version already attached.
Press
The brand page carries the exact spelling, logo files, color tokens and copyright line, so every article about us gets the details exactly right.
The product name is J2Commerce: capital J, the numeral 2, capital C, the rest lowercase. Grab the exact logo files, color tokens and copyright line from the brand kit.
Brand and Press Kit Contact Us
One Narrative, Everywhere
J2Commerce 6 is a ground-up rebuild of J2Store for Joomla 6. Migrated stores kept their data; the code underneath is new.
Download J2Commerce 6 and start selling today.
