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<h3>🛒 What is Kitbix Commerce?</h3>
<p><strong>Kitbix Commerce</strong> is a complete WordPress eCommerce plugin that lets you build a professional online store in minutes — without page builders, without theme lock-in, and without the bloat.</p>
<p>Whether you’re selling physical goods, digital downloads, or recurring subscriptions, Kitbix Commerce gives you everything you need in one lightweight plugin that works with any WordPress theme out of the box.</p>
<p>👉 <strong><a href="https://kitbix.com/kitbix-commerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">See the full feature tour at kitbix.com/kitbix-commerce/</a></strong></p>
<h3>💡 Why Kitbix Commerce Stands Out</h3>
<p>Kitbix Commerce is not just another WordPress shop plugin. It’s a complete eCommerce system built for speed, simplicity, and developer freedom. Here’s why it stands out:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>You own your data</strong> — all product, order, and customer data stays on your WordPress site. Nothing is sent to external servers unless you enable a payment gateway.</li>
<li><strong>Zero bloat</strong> — the public storefront loads minimal CSS and JavaScript. Your store stays fast.</li>
<li><strong>Works with any WordPress theme</strong> — no theme switching or page builder required. Drop in a shortcode and you’re live.</li>
<li><strong>Modern React admin</strong> — manage products, orders, and customers from a beautiful dashboard inside wp-admin.</li>
<li><strong>Built for developers</strong> — PSR-4 autoloading, REST API, hook system, and addon contracts make customisation straightforward.</li>
<li><strong>Stripe, PayPal & COD built in</strong> — start accepting payments in minutes with zero extra plugins.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🌟 Key Features of Kitbix Commerce</h3>
<p>✅ Unlimited products — sell physical goods, digital files, or subscriptions.<br />
🛒 Shortcode storefront — shop, product, cart, and checkout pages anywhere.<br />
💳 Payment gateways — Stripe, PayPal, and Cash on Delivery built in.<br />
📦 Eight free addons — Live Purchase Toast, Live View Counter, Product Q&A, and more.<br />
⚛️ React admin dashboard — fast, modern product and order management inside wp-admin.<br />
👥 Customer directory — order history, total spend, and profile insights per buyer.<br />
🖨️ Order printing — print receipts directly from wp-admin.<br />
🔌 Extensible — add custom gateways, addons, and templates with clean PHP interfaces.<br />
🌍 Translation ready — all strings are translatable via standard WordPress tools.</p>
<h3>🛍️ Product & Store Management</h3>
<p>Creating and managing products with Kitbix Commerce is simple and powerful. The React-powered admin lets you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited products with images, descriptions, categories, and pricing.</li>
<li>Set regular and sale prices per product.</li>
<li>Manage a searchable, filterable product catalog.</li>
<li>Import products in bulk for fast catalog setup.</li>
<li>Create orders manually from wp-admin when needed.</li>
<li>View a customer timeline showing order history and total spend per buyer.</li>
<li>Add customer-facing order notes that sync to email notifications.</li>
<li>Track payment gateway, transaction ID, and order status per order.</li>
</ul>
<p>All store data lives in dedicated custom database tables — your <code>wp_posts</code> table stays clean and your store scales without performance issues.</p>
<h3>🛒 Storefront & Checkout Experience</h3>
<p>Kitbix Commerce gives your customers a smooth, fast shopping experience:</p>
<ul>
<li>Place your shop, product, cart, and checkout anywhere using simple shortcodes.</li>
<li>Category filtering on the product grid for easier browsing.</li>
<li>Theme-friendly HTML/CSS output that inherits your active theme’s styles automatically.</li>
<li>Fast cart and checkout powered by Kitbix REST API — no full page reloads.</li>
<li>Checkout loading indicator with button disable state for better UX.</li>
<li>Guest checkout supported out of the box — no account required.</li>
</ul>
<h3>💳 Payments & Gateways</h3>
<p>Kitbix Commerce includes three payment gateways ready to use from day one:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Stripe</strong> — card payments with Stripe Elements and PaymentIntents for secure, modern card collection.</li>
<li><strong>PayPal</strong> — redirect-based PayPal checkout for buyers who prefer PayPal.</li>
<li><strong>Cash on Delivery</strong> — offline payment support for in-person or bank transfer orders.</li>
</ul>
<p>Need a custom gateway? Implement the <code>PaymentGatewayInterface</code> and hook into <code>kitbix_commerce_payment_gateways</code> — the admin UI and checkout pick it up automatically. Webhook support is built in for asynchronous payment confirmation.</p>
<h3>📦 Built-in Free Addons</h3>
<p>Enable powerful store features from <strong>Kitbix Commerce <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Addons</strong> with a single click — no code required:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Live Purchase Toast</strong> — show real-time purchase notifications to boost social proof.</li>
<li><strong>Live View Counter</strong> — display how many people are viewing a product right now.</li>
<li><strong>Order Printing</strong> — print order receipts directly from wp-admin.</li>
<li><strong>Payment Trust Badge</strong> — display trust icons at checkout to increase conversions.</li>
<li><strong>Product Q&A</strong> — let shoppers ask questions directly on product pages.</li>
<li><strong>Related Products</strong> — automatically suggest relevant products to increase average order value.</li>
<li><strong>Shipping Cutoff Clock</strong> — create urgency with a countdown to the next dispatch time.</li>
<li><strong>WhatsApp Contact Button</strong> — let customers reach you instantly via WhatsApp.</li>
</ol>
<p>Each addon has its own settings panel and front-end UI.</p>
<h3>🚀 Upgrade to Kitbix Commerce Pro</h3>
<p>Unlock advanced revenue features with <strong><a href="https://kitbix.com/kitbix-commerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">Kitbix Commerce Pro</a></strong>:</p>
<p><strong>🤖 AI Support Chat</strong><br />
Embed an OpenAI-powered live chat widget on your storefront. The AI recommends products, handles order status enquiries (verified by both Order ID and checkout email for security), captures visitor contact details as leads automatically, and generates a plain-text customer overview after every conversation. View all captured leads under <strong>Kitbix Commerce <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> AI Leads</strong> in wp-admin.</p>
<p><strong>🔄 Subscriptions & Licensing</strong><br />
Sell recurring monthly or yearly subscriptions with Stripe billing. Includes free trial periods, grace periods after failed renewals, automatic renewal via WP-Cron, and optional per-site license key generation. Customers get a direct checkout link for each subscription product.</p>
<p><strong>📥 Digital Downloads</strong><br />
Sell eBooks, software, music, or any file with secure tokenised download links. Set per-file download limits and expiry dates. Customers receive their download links by email automatically after purchase. A dedicated Downloads tab appears in the customer account area.</p>
<p><strong>👤 Customer Accounts</strong><br />
Give customers a secure <code>/account</code> portal to view their order history and manage their downloads — all inside your own WordPress site.</p>
<p><strong>⭐ Product Reviews</strong><br />
Collect verified reviews from real buyers and display star ratings on product pages. Fully customisable section headings, subheadings, and empty-state messages.</p>
<p><strong>🎨 Storefront Design Presets</strong><br />
Switch between 30+ curated layouts for product grids, product detail pages, cart, and checkout — no coding needed. Activate any preset instantly from the Design Presets admin panel.</p>
<h3>🔧 For Developers</h3>
<p>Kitbix Commerce is built with modern PHP practices and a clean architecture:</p>
<ul>
<li>PSR-4 autoloading via Composer.</li>
<li>Full REST API for products, orders, customers, and payments.</li>
<li>Hook system (<code>do_action</code> / <code>apply_filters</code>) for every major event.</li>
<li>Addon contract interface — build and register your own addons.</li>
<li>Custom payment gateway interface — integrate any provider.</li>
<li>Shortcodes and Gutenberg blocks for flexible page placement.</li>
</ul>
<p>📖 Developer docs: <a href="https://commerce.kitbix.com/docs" rel="nofollow ugc">commerce.kitbix.com/docs</a></p>
<h3>💡 Who Should Use Kitbix Commerce?</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Small business owners</strong> who want a fast, simple store without WooCommerce complexity.</li>
<li><strong>Freelancers and agencies</strong> building client stores that need to stay lean and maintainable.</li>
<li><strong>Digital creators</strong> selling eBooks, courses, or software files (with Pro).</li>
<li><strong>SaaS founders</strong> selling WordPress plugin licenses with recurring billing (with Pro).</li>
<li><strong>Developers</strong> who want a clean, hookable eCommerce foundation to build on.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🌱 Start Selling Today</h3>
<p>Install Kitbix Commerce, add four shortcodes to your pages, and you have a fully working online store — in under five minutes.</p>
<p>👉 <strong><a href="https://kitbix.com/kitbix-commerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">kitbix.com/kitbix-commerce/</a></strong></p>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<p>  Shortcode<br />
  Purpose</p>
<p>  <code>[kitbix_commerce_products]</code><br />
  Product listing / shop grid</p>
<p>  <code>[kitbix_commerce_product]</code><br />
  Single product page</p>
<p>  <code>[kitbix_commerce_cart]</code><br />
  Shopping cart</p>
<p>  <code>[kitbix_commerce_checkout]</code><br />
  Checkout page</p>
<p>  <code>[kitbix_commerce_cart_count]</code><br />
  Cart item count badge</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>Kitbix Commerce connects to payment providers <strong>only when those gateways are enabled</strong> inside <strong>Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Payments</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Stripe</strong> – loads <code>https://js.stripe.com/v3/</code> on checkout and sends customer/order details to Stripe’s PHP SDK when charging cards. See the <a href="https://stripe.com/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe Terms</a> and <a href="https://stripe.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe Privacy Policy</a>.</li>
<li><strong>PayPal</strong> – communicates with <code>https://api-m.paypal.com</code> or sandbox endpoints to create and complete orders. See the <a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/useragreement-full" rel="nofollow ugc">PayPal User Agreement</a> and <a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full" rel="nofollow ugc">PayPal Privacy Statement</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>No data is sent to any external service unless the respective gateway is explicitly enabled by the site administrator.</p>


Kitbix Commerce – The Fastest Way to Start Selling on WordPress

Lightweight WordPress eCommerce plugin — sell products online with Stripe, PayPal, and a modern React-powered admin dashboard.

Modern Tribe, Inc.

Tammie Lister

Jonathan Brinley

Luke Carbis

Geoff Graham

mr_speer

Tom Fanelli

mlkilderkin

joshliston

yuenvision

nickioa

BigCommerce

Vincent Listrani

Nate Stewart

Jamie Paul

ericbher

John

kdiplas

Moises_Gaspar

iliabaum

Karen

<p>BigCommerce for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to scale ecommerce further than ever before on WordPress. Scale your business with WordPress on the front-end and free up server resources from things like catalog management, processing payments, managing fulfillment logistics and more with BigCommerce on the back end.</p>
<p>Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, you get access to our native ecommerce features from a single plugin, the ability to sell across multiple channels and marketplaces from a single location, and best of all, an embedded checkout experience that takes on PCI compliance and customer security on your behalf.</p>
<h4>Quick Start!</h4>
<p>Look at details from the latest release, including new features and enhancements here: https://github.com/bigcommerce/bigcommerce-for-wordpress/releases</p>
<p>Dive into how you set up and customize your site using BC4WP using our guides here: https://developer.bigcommerce.com/bigcommerce-for-wordpress/getting-started/introduction</p>
<p>Have a suggestion for how we can be better? Ping the team! wordpress-suggestions@bigcommerce.com</p>
<h4>DIFFERENT FROM YOUR TRADITIONAL PLUGIN</h4>
<p>We’ve taken a very different approach to ecommerce in WordPress. We set out to build our plugin the WordPress Way: deliver value to the community, build it with WordPress experts and make something developers can call their own.</p>
<p>The BigCommerce for WordPress plugin leverages the best aspects of both platforms, allowing WordPress to manage content and BigCommerce to manage ecommerce.</p>
<h4>SCALABLE ECOMMERCE FOR WORDPRESS</h4>
<p>Continue to tap into the unrestricted customization of WordPress while pairing it with the most scalable SaaS ecommerce engine. BigCommerce lets you build complex catalogs, manage large volumes of concurrent traffic, orders and analytics.</p>
<p>The BigCommerce plugin ports over a copy of your product catalog and stores products as custom post types in WordPress. It also creates pages for your cart, checkout, account profiles, sign in, shipping & returns, gift certificates and order history.</p>
<p>The key difference to our approach is that you don’t need to install additional extensions to get access to common ecommerce features. Instead, you get instant access to many common (and advanced) features, such as complex catalog support, global payment gateways, currency handling, taxation, shipping calculations and centralized channel management; all out-of-the-box.</p>
<h4>OFFLOAD BACKEND RESOURCES</h4>
<p>Our philosophy is that processing orders and running your store shouldn’t affect the uptime and speed of your site — which can hurt your SEO, conversion, and brand. The BigCommerce plugin does the heavy commerce lifting, letting you scale your ecommerce without losing speed or uptime.</p>
<h4>LET US HANDLE PCI COMPLIANCE</h4>
<p>Taking on your own PCI compliance comes with a huge amount of liability and risk. BigCommerce powers the full checkout experience, assuming the burden of PCI compliance for you.</p>
<h4>EXTENSIVE PAYMENT GATEWAYS</h4>
<p>BigCommerce has over <a href="https://www.bigcommerce.com/payments/" rel="nofollow ugc">65 payment gateway integrations</a> available out-of-the box, serving 100+ countries and over 250 local payment methods.</p>
<p>To help you reduce costs, we’ve <a href="https://www.bigcommerce.com/paypal-rates/" rel="nofollow ugc">pre-negotiated special credit and debit card processing rates with PayPal</a>, our preferred payment solution. The more you grow with BigCommerce and upgrade your plan, the lower your rates can go.</p>
<h4>HIGHLY SCALABLE PRODUCT CATALOG</h4>
<p>BigCommerce is built for large, complex catalogs with up to 600 SKUs per product, and 250 product values for a single option. Our native catalog structure treats single products (including variants, details, SKUs, etc.) as a single API call, making inventory syncing with ERPs, PIMs (and WordPress) fast.</p>
<h4>MULTI-CHANNEL SELLING & MANAGEMENT</h4>
<p>With the core BigCommerce platform, you now have access within the control panel to sell across multiple marketplaces simultaneously, such as eBay, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Google Shopping, Square and more! Save time and eliminate errors and overselling with bulk listing, automatic inventory syncing and unified order and fulfillment management.</p>
<h4>USE YOUR FAVORITE WORDPRESS THEME</h4>
<p>BigCommerce for WordPress will work with any WordPress theme, but it may require some styling to make it fit perfectly. Are you a theme developer? We’d love to promote your BigCommerce for WordPress compatible theme. <a href="mailto:topher.derosia@bigcommerce.com?subject=WordPress%20Theme%20Developer" rel="nofollow ugc">Get in touch with us here</a>.</p>
<p>To start, we recommend choosing a cross-browser compatible WordPress ecommerce theme, since the theme options included will better match what an online store requires.</p>
<h4>ECOMMERCE WITH GUTENBERG</h4>
<p>We’re big supporters of Gutenberg and built our plugin to support both the classic editor and Gutenberg. Whether you’re inserting shortcodes in classic mode or product blocks in Gutenberg, we will continue to enable support for both.</p>
<h4>SECURED USER ACCOUNTS & LOGINS</h4>
<p>In addition to offering you peace of mind with a secure checkout experience, we also extend this level of security to your shoppers, their accounts and logins, and payment information — all managed by BigCommerce.</p>
<h4>GLOBAL SHIPPING STREAMLINED</h4>
<p>We <a href="https://support.bigcommerce.com/s/article/Shipping-Setup" rel="nofollow ugc">support</a> all major global carriers, offer real-time carrier quotes, allow for free shipping, flat rates, dropshipping and more. With our deep ShipperHQ integration, you can even specify rates by product, category, customer group, quantity, destination, dimensions and more.</p>
<h4>FLEXIBLE SHOPPING CART</h4>
<p>We are bringing over a decade of focusing on building online stores to every WordPress website. Through this we bring our flexible shopping cart, along with it’s extensive customization options, so can offer enterprise grade promotions and discounts within a fully responsive layout, without additional extensions that other WordPress ecommerce plugins require.</p>
<h4>MULTIPLE SITES; ONE CONTROL PANEL</h4>
<p>Even if you sell across multiple WordPress sites, you shouldn’t have to manage them all in separate places. BigCommerce gives you a single control panel to manage your catalog, orders and shipping, all from one place. Streamline your admin experience and spend less time managing ecommerce on WordPress.</p>
<p>Beyond WordPress, the endpoints we’ve opened on our platform allow you to build commerce into any sort of experience. Looking to launch a site in React? Interested in developing a mobile app? Want to integrate with an in-house POS? <a href="https://developer.bigcommerce.com" rel="nofollow ugc">All of these can be built</a> and managed from within the BigCommerce Control Panel.</p>
<h4>COMPLEX ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS INTEGRATIONS</h4>
<p>A huge benefit of having a SaaS ecommerce engine behind the scenes is that the core platform is already built for mid-market and enterprise use cases. Natively connect to your existing ERP suites, PIM software, OMS solutions, POS systems or marketing automation tools right out of the box.</p>
<h4>AMP SUPPORT</h4>
<p>Unique to most WordPress ecommerce plugins, BigCommerce for WordPress also includes support for Accelerated Mobile Pages. To activate, install the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/" rel="ugc">official Google plugin</a>.</p>
<h4>SUPPORT AND SERVICES</h4>
<p>All of our BigCommerce customers have access to our <a href="https://www.bigcommerce.com/features/247-support/" rel="nofollow ugc">24/7</a> live phone, chat, and email support, run from our headquarters in Austin, Texas. For larger enterprise customers, we offer dedicated account management and implementation management services as part of your plan. We also have an ever-growing collection of help, support, and how-to guides in our <a href="https://support.bigcommerce.com/s/article/BigCommerce-for-WordPress-Resources" rel="nofollow ugc">help center</a>.</p>
<h4>BUILT WITH DEVELOPERS IN MIND</h4>
<p>BigCommerce for WordPress was built by WordPress developers, with developers in mind. Our plugin is open source and available for you to fork, extend and modify as your needs require.</p>
<p>Our plugin supports WordPress’ standard method of overriding template files so you can modify out-of-the-box designs. Customize your product cards, lists and shopping cart without risking plugin updates that will undo your changes.</p>
<p>Additionally, there are many <a href="https://developer.bigcommerce.com/bigcommerce-for-wordpress/extending-the-plugin/code-reference" rel="nofollow ugc">hooks and filters</a>, so you can manipulate content to your heart’s content.</p>
<h4>JOIN OUR BIGCOMMERCE COMMUNITY</h4>
<p>All BigCommerce customers get access to our ever-growing online <a href="https://support.bigcommerce.com/s/community" rel="nofollow ugc">community</a> to answer questions, discuss ecommerce strategies, learn about the latest product updates, contribute ideas and more.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in contributing to BigCommerce for WordPress, head over to our <a href="https://github.com/bigcommerce/bigcommerce-for-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a>.</p>


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