Here are a few ways you can contribute to the nopCommerce project

• If you have a site, write about us or place a hyperlink.
• Answer a question on the discussion board
• Share an idea for a new feature or a better way to do something on the forums.
• Create a new language pack.
• Create a new graphical theme to share with the community.
• Implement a new payment gateway module.
• Tell your friends about nopCommerce.
• Become our community sponsor

Sharing your plugins and language packs

You can easily upload your plugin or language pack to our Extensions section to share it with other users. Just go to My account page, then "Your contributions and extensions" tab. Click "Upload a new extension" button in order to upload a new extension.

Contributing source code (Mercurial version for developers)

nopCommerce manages a repository here http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets. So you can always check out the latest source code! Please find more info about CodePlex Mercurial support for forks here or here.
Note: these versions should not be used in a production environment. We do not guarantee that any of the functionality or code found in our DCS (distributed control system) will be made available in our official releases.