Small server-rendered store with an admin, Stripe and Lightning checkout, and APIs that let AI agents shop
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Self-hosted alternatives to Big Cartel
Big Cartel is an online storefront platform for artists and small businesses to set up and manage a store. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Big Cartel describes on its own site.
Big Cartel features, app by app
| Feature | minshop |
|---|---|
| Customizable store templates | Partly |
| Product management and imports | Partly |
| Shipping and payment setup | Yes |
| Physical, digital, print-on-demand | Partly |
| Social selling | No |
| Payments: cards, wallets, PayPal | Partly |
Small server-rendered store with an admin, Stripe and Lightning checkout, and APIs that let AI agents shop
- What a Big Cartel user would miss
- Social selling, PayPal, in-person sales, a template picker and print on demand.
- What it adds
- MIT licensed, runs in your account on D1 and R2 without JavaScript, with a JSON API and MCP server.
- Partly Customizable store templates. Server-rendered storefront with theme source edited in code and chosen at build time; no template picker.
- Partly Product management and imports. Products, variants, extras, nested categories and media in the admin; no importer.
- Yes Shipping and payment setup. Shipping zones with flat, weight-banded, pickup and free-over rates, and payment rails set in the admin.
- Partly Physical, digital, print-on-demand. Physical and digital products, with one file up to 25 MB; no print on demand.
- No Social selling. Not found in the README or source.
- Partly Payments: cards, wallets, PayPal. Cards through Stripe Checkout and Bitcoin Lightning; no PayPal or Venmo.