Decoupling Made Easy for WooCommerce
Is your store slow? Looking to decouple away from WordPress? CoCart is a free REST API with all you need to decouple your WooCommerce store, build in any web framework, literally everything can be customized and saves you countless hours.
What is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce is a flexible, open-source commerce solution built on WordPress, empowering anyone to sell anything, anywhere and is the fastest-growing eCommerce platform on the internet.
Why CoCart?
With CoCart, we have already done the hard part for you. The API. Once installed, your WooCommerce store is ready to decouple away from WordPress, allowing you to design without limitations imposed by a WordPress theme that is harder to modify and optimize. Utilize faster and familiar web frameworks you know and love—it’s that simple.
✨ What do you get with the core of CoCart?
Everything you need to try and see if making your store headless is right for you.
- No Blocks – The API is designed for the purpose of decoupling. Not blocks for Gutenberg.
- Enhanced Session Handler – Our session handler provides the support needed for any decoupled situation.
- Basic Authentication – No Admin API Keys required. Customers have full control, either as a guest or authenticated with their login details.
- Domain dominance – CORS can be an issue when decoupling. Don’t sweat the small stuff. We got you.
- No Headless Checkout? – Load any cart session via the native site, if you feel more comfortable using WooCommerce’s built in payment system.
- Worried about Caching? – The Cart API does not cache no matter what cache system you have installed for other API’s in use. Responses return fresh every time.
- Reduced Cart Checkups – Avoid the hassle of multiple requests to verify item and coupon validity in your cart. Our system efficiently checks stock, validates coupons, and calculates totals and fees, ensuring real-time accuracy before confirmation.
- Need your own cart callback? – Register custom callbacks without needing to create a whole new endpoint. Cart response returns once the callback is completed.
- Your Inventory – Search by Name, ID or SKU, filter and return product data you need without authentication. REST shortcuts are readily provided for your next requests.
- Want to track your customers? – Keep watch of all cart sessions, even the ones that are starting to expire.
- Name Your Price Built In – Give your customers control of the price they pay. Encourage your audience to support you with payment flexibility that widens your paying audience.
- Bulk Requests – Combine many cart requests in bulk to save time.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
★★★★★
An excellent plugin, which makes building a headless WooCommerce experience a breeze. Easy to use, nearly zero setup time. Harald Schneider
🛒 Built for developers, by developers
CoCart was born out of frustration with no existing solution on the market. As beautiful as it functions, the API is just as flexible with you, the developer, in mind. We spend an unfathomable amount of time making the API a joy to work with.
We invest our time into fully abstracting our API so you can focus on building a headless store. Integrate with CoCart in days, not months.
★★★★★
Amazing Plugin. I’m using it to create a react-native app with WooCommerce as back-end. This plugin is a life-saver! Daniel Loureiro
📦 Serious about going headless?
Try out more features and unlock your stores potential. Upgrade to complete the API with additional features that help you develop your store to it’s full potential.
See what else we have in store.
★★★★★
This plugin saved me tones of work and it is working amazingly! The plugin author provides fast and high quality support. Well done! @codenroll
😍 Priority support
We aim to provide regular support for the CoCart plugin on the WordPress.org forums. But please understand that we do prioritize support for our paying customers. Support can also be requested with the community on Discord.
🧰 Developer Tools
- CoCart Beta Tester allows you to easily update to pre-release versions of CoCart for testing and development purposes.
- CoCart VSCode extension for Visual Studio Code adds snippets and autocompletion of functions, classes and hooks.
- CoCart Product Support Boilerplate provides a basic boilerplate for supporting a different product types to add to the cart with validation including adding your own parameters.
- CoCart Cart Callback Example provides you an example of registering a callback that can be triggered when updating the cart.
📢 Testimonials – Developers just love it
★★★★★
Thanks for doing such a great work with this! Works exactly as expected and CoCart seems to have a nice community around it. The founder seems really devoted and that’s one of the key things for a plugin like this to live on and get the right updates in the future. We just got ourselves the lifetime subscription. Mighty Group Agency
★★★★★
This plugin works great out of the box for adding products to the cart via API. The code is solid and functionality is as expected, thanks Sebastien! Scott Bolinger, Creator of Holler Box
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☀️ Upgrading
It is recommended that anytime you want to update CoCart that you get familiar with what’s changed in the release.
CoCart publishes release notes via the changelog.
CoCart uses Semver practices. The summary of Semver versioning is as follows:
- MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes.
- MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner.
- PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.
You can read more about the details of Semver at semver.org
👍 Add-ons to further enhance CoCart
We also have add-ons that extend CoCart to enhance your development and your customers shopping experience.
- CoCart – CORS enables support for CORS to allow CoCart to work across multiple domains.
- CoCart – JWT Authentication allows you to authenticate via a simple JWT Token.
- CoCart – Cart Enhanced enhances the data returned for the cart and the items added to it.
- and more add-ons in development.
They work with the core of CoCart already, and these add-ons of course come with support too.
⌨️ Join our growing community
A Discord community for developers, WordPress agencies and shop owners building the fastest and best headless WooCommerce stores with CoCart.
Built with developers in mind
Extensible, adaptable, and open source — CoCart is created with developers in mind. If you’re interested to jump in the project, there are opportunities for developers at all levels to get involved. Contribute to CoCart on the GitHub repository and join the party. 🎉
🐞 Bug reports
Bug reports for CoCart are welcomed in the CoCart repository on GitHub. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed.
More information
- The official CoCart API plugin website.
- CoCart for Developers, an official hub for resources you need to be productive with CoCart and keep track of everything that is happening with the API.
- CoCart API Reference
- Subscribe to updates
- Like, Follow and Star on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and GitHub
💯 Credits
This plugin is developed and maintained by Sébastien Dumont. Founder of CoCart Headless, LLC.
Contributors & Developers
“CoCart” has not yet been translated in other languages. You can translate “CoCart” into your language.
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