Deploy and Host Openfront Vape with Railway

Openfront Vape is a self-hostable commerce application with catalog, inventory, customer accounts, orders, and regulated-product controls. Operators can maintain merchant authority, product classifications, policy records, and compliance reporting alongside the retail dashboard. Regulated transactions are disabled by the current release gate.

About Hosting Openfront Vape

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: CREDENTIAL_PEPPER, SESSION_SECRET. Defaults: NODE_ENV=production, RAILPACK_NODE_VERSION=22.

Optional and blank until you configure the provider: SMTP_FROM, SMTP_HOST, SMTP_PORT.

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

Admin Dashboard

Manage gift cards, regions, currencies, products, product categories, price lists, invoices, discounts, api keys, shipping, compliance, shipping providers through dedicated dashboard workspaces and permission-controlled data screens.

Storefront

Country-scoped routes provide product and collection browsing, carts, accounts, and checkout screens. Their presence does not authorize regulated checkout: transaction completion remains subject to the compliance gate.

Retail Catalog & Operations

Manage products, variants, categories, collections, regional pricing, inventory, order records, invoices, discounts, and customer accounts.

Regulated Product Controls

Record jurisdictions, merchant licenses, product authorizations, classifications, provider approvals, rule sets, age-verification attempts, and compliance decisions.

Compliance Reporting

Inspect readiness, generate compliance reports, export inventory, and stop regulated commerce. Recorded approvals do not activate an approved identity, tax, payment, carrier, or registry provider stack.

Common Use Cases

Retail Catalog & Operations
Regulated Product Controls
Compliance Reporting

Dependencies for Openfront Vape 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 Vape 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 Vape 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.