Deploy and Host Openfront Convenience with Railway

Openfront Convenience is a self-hostable convenience-store retail and operations application. Customers can browse a local catalog and prepare a basket, while staff manage POS, registers, cash, pricing, purchasing, inventory, prepared food, restricted sales, reconciliation, and reporting.

About Hosting Openfront Convenience

This template provisions the application from its GitHub repository, PostgreSQL, and a private native Railway Bucket named Storage. The database starts empty; no demo records or reusable credentials are included. Initialize the application using the repository's onboarding instructions after deployment.

DATABASE_URL references Postgres and the five S3_* variables reference the Storage bucket. Generated per deployment: SESSION_SECRET.

The app gets a Railway-generated public domain. No custom domains are included.

Admin Dashboard

Manage platform through dedicated dashboard workspaces and permission-controlled data screens.

Storefront

The local shopping surface includes /shop, product detail, /basket, /checkout, and /account. Catalog publication and checkout operate alongside the store's product, stock, and restricted-sale rules.

Store Retail & Cash

Manage POS sales, tenders, refunds, registers, shifts, cash movements, store-day records, bank deposits, and reconciliation.

Catalog, Purchasing & Inventory

Maintain products, variants, barcodes, tax categories, price books, promotions, loyalty, vendors, purchase orders, receiving, lots, counts, transfers, and waste.

Specialized Store Operations

Dedicated workspaces cover prepared food, restricted sales, fuel, lottery, money services, exports, exceptions, and recovery. Provider and hardware activation require separate operator configuration; these workspaces are not certifications for regulated services.

Common Use Cases

Store Retail & Cash
Catalog, Purchasing & Inventory
Specialized Store Operations

Dependencies for Openfront Convenience Hosting

The app needs a PostgreSQL database and S3-compatible object storage. Both are provisioned by this template.

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Next.js and Keystone 6 with a GraphQL API, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Payments, email, and other external providers need their own operator configuration; this template does not activate them.

Why Deploy Openfront Convenience on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Openfront Convenience on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.