What does "compliant by default" mean versus bolting compliance on later?

Honestly framed: Okommerce builds in security and data-handling good practices by default — token-only card storage, audit columns and soft-delete on every record, role-based access control, guarded destructive operations, and self-hosted data ownership — so those foundations aren't afterthoughts. What it does not yet ship is a statutory tax/e-invoicing compliance engine; that's…

Honestly framed: Okommerce builds in security and data-handling good practices by default — token-only card storage, audit columns and soft-delete on every record, role-based access control, guarded destructive operations, and self-hosted data ownership — so those foundations aren't afterthoughts. What it does not yet ship is a statutory tax/e-invoicing compliance engine; that's roadmap. So "compliant by default" is accurate for the security/data-protection posture, but should not be stated as statutory tax compliance. The right claim is "secure and data-ownership-respecting by design, with tax-authority compliance on the roadmap." *(Tune this wording to what you can substantiate.)*