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Developer-first shopping cart you add to any website
Snipcart is a developer-first shopping cart that you add to any existing website — a static site, a JAMstack build, a custom app, or a CMS — to turn it into an e-commerce store without adopting a full platform. You add products with simple HTML attributes or the API, drop in Snipcart's script, and it provides the cart, checkout, payment processing, and order management. Because it layers commerce onto whatever front end you already have, Snipcart is popular with developers, agencies, and technical teams who want full control over design and stack while avoiding the constraints of Shopify-style platforms.
The platform focuses on flexibility and developer experience. Products can be defined in markup, JSON, or via API, so it fits static site generators (Hugo, Eleventy, Gatsby, Next.js) and headless setups; it handles cart, customizable checkout, payment gateways (Stripe, PayPal, and more), taxes, shipping, discounts, subscriptions, and inventory; and webhooks plus a dashboard manage orders and customers. Snipcart is essentially headless commerce as a lightweight add-on — you own the storefront, it owns the transaction plumbing — which suits content-led sites and custom builds that need to sell without re-platforming.
Snipcart serves developers, agencies, and technical merchants who want to add commerce to any site. Its pricing is simple and transaction-based: a forever-free testing/development mode, then either a 2% fee per transaction (plus payment-gateway fees) for stores doing over $1,000/month in sales, or a flat $20/month minimum for stores under $1,000/month. It competes with Shopify, WooCommerce, Medusa, and Swell, differentiating on being a lightweight, developer-friendly cart you bolt onto any front end.
Pricing Model
Transaction-based (2% or $20/mo)
Starting Price
$0/mo
Free Options
Free version, Free trial
Forever-free testing and development mode.
$20/month minimum, or 2% per transaction over $1,000/mo sales.
| Feature | Test / Development | Standard Popular |
|---|---|---|
| Full cart and checkout | — | |
| Test payments | — | |
| API and webhooks | — | |
| All features | — | |
| No live sales | — | |
| 2% per transaction (over $1k/mo) | — | |
| $20/mo flat (under $1k/mo) | — | |
| Payment gateways | — | |
| Inventory and orders | — | |
| Subscriptions | — |
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Compliance Standards
SOC 2 Type II
EnterpriseISO 27001
EnterpriseGDPR Compliant
GlobalHIPAA
HealthcarePCI DSS
FinanceCCPA
PrivacyFedRAMP
GovernmentCSA STAR
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