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Self-hosted alternatives to Squarespace Commerce

Squarespace Commerce is the online store feature of Squarespace websites, with product pages, cart, checkout, shipping and order management. 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 Squarespace Commerce describes on its own site.

  • minshop demo storefront: All products grid with category links, sort options and sold-out badges

    Small server-rendered store with an admin, Stripe and Lightning checkout, and APIs that let AI agents shop

    Deploy
    One-click
    License
    MIT
    GitHub stars
    164 stars
    Last commit

Squarespace Commerce features, app by app

Featureminshop
Product pages that showcase productsPartly
Shopping cart and checkoutYes
Inventory managementYes
Flat, weight and live shipping ratesPartly
Payment processingYes
Automatic sales tax calculationPartly

Small server-rendered store with an admin, Stripe and Lightning checkout, and APIs that let AI agents shop

What a Squarespace Commerce user would miss
A Squarespace user would miss the website builder and visual editor, live carrier rates and booking. It is a single-merchant store with one currency.
What it adds
MIT licensed, runs in your account on D1 and R2 without JavaScript, with a JSON API and MCP server.
  • Partly Product pages that showcase products. Server-rendered product pages, nested categories and search; theme source edited in code, no visual editor.
  • Yes Shopping cart and checkout. Cookie cart with a no-JavaScript fallback and hosted Stripe Checkout.
  • Yes Inventory management. Stock reserved at checkout with In stock, Low stock and Sold out states.
  • Partly Flat, weight and live shipping rates. Zones with flat, weight-banded, pickup and free-over rates; no live carrier rates.
  • Yes Payment processing. Stripe Checkout cards and Bitcoin Lightning.
  • Partly Automatic sales tax calculation. Stripe Tax once activated; skipped on the Lightning path.

Sources:github.com/ddyy/minshop/blob/main/README.md