BoxCart is a standalone click & collect ordering plugin for WordPress. Give your customers a polished pickup-ordering experience with configurable time slots, a modern card-view storefront, customer accounts, and a built-in admin dashboard - all without WooCommerce.
Built for: farm shops, bakeries, butchers, delis, greengrocers, fishmongers, florists, coffee roasters, pizza shops, meal-prep kitchens, and any business where customers order ahead and collect.
What you get in the free build
- Click & collect ordering with configurable time slots on your pickup schedule.
- One pickup location with its own address, collection instructions, opening hours, and per-slot capacity.
- Card-view storefront with category filters, search, and mini-basket.
- Customer accounts with order history.
- Admin order management with a status lifecycle (pending, confirmed, ready, collected, cancelled).
- Seven transactional email templates (order confirmation, status updates, cancellations, modifications, customer messaging) with branding controls and a live preview editor. Plus three admin notifications.
- Cash on collection and bank transfer payment methods.
- 5 Gutenberg blocks and 5 shortcodes for embedding BoxCart anywhere - products, basket, checkout, account, mini basket.
- Developer-friendly - 20 action hooks, 11 filter hooks, CSS custom properties throughout, zero external PHP dependencies.
- Cache-resilient - pages render as empty shells that hydrate via AJAX, with a bypass cookie for customer sessions. Compatible with Cloudflare, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, and similar.
- Translation-ready with a
.pot file included.
- GDPR-aware - self-hosted fonts, optional full data cleanup on uninstall.
Why BoxCart?
- Standalone - no WooCommerce required. A single, focused plugin with its own data model.
- Time-slot ordering baked in. Configure your schedule, slot length, and capacity. Customers see live availability.
- Developer extensible - documented hooks, filters, and CSS custom properties.
- Not a stripped-down demo - the free build is a complete, working click & collect store.
Paid Pro upgrade (optional)
A paid Pro build is available from
boxcart.dev with additional features:
- Multiple pickup locations
- Stripe card payments (with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, Klarna, PayPal, Afterpay)
- Table-view storefront
- Customer favourites and one-click reorder
- Multi-quantity products (e.g. per-100g / per-kilo on one product)
- Two-way order messaging
- Customer-side order modification
- Holiday closures and per-date capacity overrides
- Printable pick lists & packing slips
- Sales reports
- CSV product import/export
- 195+ customisation settings
Pro is optional - the free build will continue to receive updates and is genuinely useful on its own.
Live demo
Three demo stores at
demo.boxcart.dev - a greengrocer, a bakery, and a butcher - each configured differently to show the range of what BoxCart can do.
Documentation
Full documentation at
docs.boxcart.dev covering every admin workflow and the developer API.
- In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New.
- Search for BoxCart, then click Install Now and Activate.
- Open BoxCart → Settings and work through the General tab to set currency, tax, and page assignments.
- Create three pages - Products, Basket, and Checkout - and add the matching BoxCart shortcode or Gutenberg block to each. Optionally add a fourth Account page if you want customers to be able to sign in and view past orders (BoxCart works as guest-checkout-only without it). Assign them all in BoxCart → Settings → General → Page Setup.
- Go to BoxCart → Locations and add your pickup location, opening hours, and time slots.
- Add your products under BoxCart → Products.
- Place a test order end-to-end to verify everything is wired up.
Full step-by-step walkthrough at
docs.boxcart.dev/getting-started.
1.0.0
Initial public release.
- Click & collect ordering with configurable time slots.
- Pickup location with opening hours, slot capacity, and per-slot availability.
- Guest checkout by default - customers can place an order without creating an account, and view their order any time via a per-order magic link emailed to them.
- Optional customer accounts with order history. Sign-in, lost-password, and password-reset all use WordPress's native authentication flow, styled to match the storefront.
- Admin order management with a status lifecycle (pending, confirmed, ready, collected, cancelled).
- Cash on collection and bank transfer payment methods.
- Seven transactional email templates with branding controls and live preview.
- Card-view storefront with category filters, search, and mini basket.
- 5 Gutenberg blocks and 5 shortcodes.
- Cache-resilient architecture with AJAX hydration and bypass cookie.
- Developer API - 20 action hooks, 11 filter hooks, CSS custom properties.
- WordPress 6.0+ / PHP 7.4+.