Guides to selling from a website you already have
Written for people with a site and something to sell, not for platform engineers.
Written for people with a site and something to sell, not for platform engineers.
Agentic commerce explained without the hype: what it means when AI agents shop and sell, what changes for a small shop, and how to be ready without a platform.
A practical guide to adding a shopping cart and checkout to an existing website: the options, what each costs, and the two-line way that works on any site.
What an ecommerce API should do for a small site: products, checkout, orders. How AddTheShop's storefront and merchant APIs work, with examples.
Headless checkout explained for people with a website, not a platform: keep your frontend, hand payment to a hosted checkout. How to do it with one script tag.
You built a site with Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Cursor. Here is how to add products, a cart and Stripe checkout to it in one prompt, and what to avoid.
Ecommerce as a service means renting the selling layer (catalogue, cart, checkout, orders) and keeping your own site. When it beats a platform, and how it works.
AI store builders generate a whole new store. If you already built a site with Lovable, Bolt or Cursor, you only need to add the shop. Here is how.
How to take payments with Stripe on your own website without coding: payment links for one product, or AddTheShop for a cart with several products, stock and orders.
Products, cart and Stripe checkout from one script tag. Free to start, 2% per sale. Your AI installs it and runs it.