Speaker: Ryan Szrama Commerce Kickstart 2.x was the most popular Drupal distribution ever created, achieving an install base of over 10,000 sites during the Drupal 7 lifecycle. It gave evaluators a complete, out of the box demo store to explore, and it also served as the foundation for countless stores - some of which grew to sell millions of orders! However, Drupal 8's switch to Composer and configuration management in core left the future of a distribution like Commerce Kickstart in doubt. Project maintainers Centarro (formerly Commerce Guys) considered other options to replace Commerce Kickstart, but determined in 2021 to relaunch a new version of the distribution as the quickest way to get started with Drupal Commerce. * Learn in this session how the evolving Drupal development and site management standards required a new approach to distribution development and maintenance. * Receive a guided tour of its features designed to make the onboarding process for Drupal Commerce merchants much easier than ever before. * Hear firsthand the strategy Centarro implemented to ensure a single distribution could support multiple use cases - demo store, full-stack project base, and headless project base - without requiring site builders to work against or undo out of the box features and content.