CoCart – Decoupling Made Easy for WooCommerce
Created by: CoCart Headless, LLC
CoCart’s mission is decoupling your WooCommerce store with our developer friendly REST API extension.
CoCart is a customizable, open-source REST API solution built for WooCommerce that is ready to decouple away from WordPress, allowing you to design and build without limitations imposed by a WordPress theme that is harder to modify and optimize. Our REST API handles all the server side actions so it can be utilized in faster and familiar frameworks that you prefer.
CoCart Free contains everything you need to get started.
Why WooCommerce?
WooCommerce provides a flexible, and efficient way to build cutting-edge stores with WordPress at it’s core. If you are looking to provide a great store for your customers that is fast, decoupling your store is a no brainer, but accessing the front side via the REST API was missing which is where CoCart comes in.
Why CoCart?
Is your store slow? Looking to decouple away from WordPress? Overwhelmed with getting WooCommerce working the way you want in your own REST API endpoints?
These are the struggles web developers have trying to decouple a WooCommerce store and with CoCart, you can overcome these challenges and get straight to utilizing a REST API that is ready for you.
- Source of Truth – CoCart sources the WooCommerce’s Data Stores API and repeats most WooCommerce hooks to provide a wider array of support for most WooCommerce extensions out of the box.
- No Cookie Required – Our session handler generates a key for the user session in the WordPress database and stores session-related meta data for use on the client without the heavy load.
- Basic Authentication – No Admin API Keys required. Customers can login with their account either with Email+Password, Username+Password, Phone Number+Password.
- Domain Dominance – CORS can be an issue when decoupling so we made sure you have control of the origin.
- Your Inventory – Search products by Name, ID or SKU, filter and return product data you need without authentication or private data exposed. REST shortcuts are readily provided for your next requests.
- Reduced Cart Checkups – We have avoided the hassle of needing multiple requests to verify item and coupon validity in your cart. Our system efficiently checks stock, calculates totals and fees, ensuring real-time accuracy so your responses return up to date every time.
- No Headless Checkout? – Load any cart session via the native site using the generated key, if you feel more comfortable using WooCommerce’s built in payment system.
- Need your own cart callback? – Register custom callbacks without needing to create a whole new endpoint. Cart response returns once the callback is completed.
- Want to track your customers? – Keep watch of all cart sessions, even the ones that are starting to expire or have expired.
- 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 making the API a joy to work with so you can focus on building a headless store 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?
Unlock your stores full potential. Upgrade to complete the API with additional features that help you develop your store further.
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
On Discord we have a community of developers, WordPress agencies and shop owners building the fastest and best headless WooCommerce stores with CoCart.
Come and join our community
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
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