What is Snipcart used for?

Snipcart adds a shopping cart and checkout to any website, CMS or framework, with support for digital and physical products, taxes and shipping. It is a good fit for developers adding a store to a Jamstack site, agencies building content sites with light ecommerce and merchants selling digital downloads.

How much does Snipcart cost?

Paid plans for Snipcart start at $20 per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.

Is Snipcart open source?

No. Snipcart is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Snipcart include WooCommerce, Medusa and Aimeos for Laravel.

What are some alternatives to Snipcart?

Snipcart competes with Ecwid, Foxy and Shopify. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Snipcart alternatives.

Snipcart: features, pricing and alternatives

About Snipcart

Snipcart is a hosted shopping cart and checkout service that can be added to any website, whatever site builder, CMS or framework sits behind it. It targets developers and merchants who want to keep their own site and design while adding ecommerce on top.

The cart lives inside the site's frontend, so customers are not redirected elsewhere to confirm a purchase. It supports physical and digital goods, discounts, abandoned cart recovery, multiple currencies, tax management, shipping options, inventory management and invoices, with customer and merchant dashboards and a set of APIs and webhooks for connecting other tools.

Jamstack and coupled sites are both supported. Snipcart is a commercial hosted product with plans listed on its pricing page, and it suits agencies and developers building content-led sites that need a lightweight store.

Key features

Drop-in cart and checkout for any website
Physical and digital product sales
Discounts and abandoned cart recovery
Multi-currency and tax management
Shipping and inventory management
APIs and webhooks for integrations
Customer and merchant dashboards

Good fit for

→Developers adding a store to a Jamstack site
→Agencies building content sites with light ecommerce
→Merchants selling digital downloads

Tags: ecommerce; shopping-cart; checkout; headless; jamstack; developer-tools; saas

Snipcart: questions and answers

What is Snipcart used for?: Snipcart adds a shopping cart and checkout to any website, CMS or framework, with support for digital and physical products, taxes and shipping. It is a good fit for developers adding a store to a Jamstack site, agencies building content sites with light ecommerce and merchants selling digital downloads.
How much does Snipcart cost?: Paid plans for Snipcart start at $20 per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.
Is Snipcart open source?: No. Snipcart is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Snipcart include WooCommerce, Medusa and Aimeos for Laravel.
What are some alternatives to Snipcart?: Snipcart competes with Ecwid, Foxy and Shopify. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Snipcart alternatives.