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Snipcart 3.0 — Custom e-commerce for developers. New cart & customization.
Snipcart is a shopping cart developers can easily integrate into any website in minutes. This new version (v3.0) pushes cart & checkout customization much further.
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Hey PH, I’m Francois from Snipcart! 👋
Our product lets you add e-commerce to any site in minutes. It’s HTML/JS-based and works with tools you love: SSG, headless/traditional CMS, JS frameworks, SPA, etc.
In this version, we focused on our client-facing JS shopping cart :
- It doesn’t depend on any third-party libraries in the global scope (bye jQuery). We used modern tools like Vue.js, but worked hard so you don’t have to deal with them while integrating.
- This new design is sober, built to fit most websites with little changes. We followed best UX practices for a conversion-centric checkout flow. Also used a mobile-first approach.
- We made it easier to inject your aesthetics through the checkout. From colors and animations to adding or deleting fields, you can do lots of stuff. We now have an HTML-like syntax making it easy to play with cart components.
- You can easily override templates for a full-page cart, a small, centered modal, or a slide-in, right-sided one, etc.
Snipcart still offers a hosted dashboard for store management: discounts, abandoned carts, payment gateways, shipping, invoicing, multi-currency, taxes, & more.
We have an SDK coming up, and a couple features to reach v2.0 parity, but this version is 100% ready to hit production. 🚀
Feel free to check out our new documentation! Snipcart is forever free in Test mode. https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/
We’re offering a discount for Product Hunters—hit the website via this product card to get it.
Happy to answer questions! 🙇♂️
@jcasoft Thanks 😊
Unfortunately, we are not the ones developing third party plugins for Snipcart - so I can't answer your question precisely.
Maybe contact the Joomla plugin creators directly?
@imknight I'd love to discuss nocode with you a bit, if you're down. Where can I reach you?
@the_fln sure you can ping me on twitter( same username as my producthunt ) or drop me an email knight@productizehq.com
I loved Snipcart, great little product. Except the default cart experience seems to have gone backwards? The demo seems really clunky to me? The old desktop modal, and full screen mobile experience was much easier.
Still stellar product if you're looking for cart functionality.
@jonmarkelley thanks for the input - we're fine-tuning a couple of things. But I'm surprised about the mobile feedback. Would love to get more details on what you feel is clunky > francois@snipcart.com, I'd be more than happy to offer you a couple of free months if you go Live with a store.
@giron aaah yes, thanks! BTW these still look great https://cl.ly/0c4036 😁
Pros:
- Default cart looks much better than v2.0
- Simple checkout flow
- Full-screen mobile checkouts way better than v2.0
- More control over customization
- Fresher documentation, few spots to improve though
Cons:
- Would've liked to play with standalone SDK but I understand it's coming
- Multi-lingual support needed for my projects, but again, coming
@kvlt_grobert Thanks! We'll the launch's momentum to keep working on these missing features for sure. 🙇♂️
The brand new design is very helpful, congrats! 👏
PS : proudly crafted in Saint-Roch, Québec City- Canada : we love it!
?makers How would you recommend going about using Snipcart + an SSG + a headless CMS to create a store with hundreds of products?
I read a few of your tutorials on pairing Snipcart with Hugo, Jekyll and 11ty, but all of them use a store with only a couple of products as a demo.
What happens when you need editors to be able to upload products in bulk (perhaps by importing a CSV file)? Which headless CMS would you recommend for such a use case?
@anna_0x Good question! If the attributes needed for Snipcart products (https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/set...) are already modelled inside your headless CMS, you could probably upload products in bulk in the CMS using a JSON or CSV file.
Looks like this could work with Sanity and DatoCMS:
- https://www.sanity.io/guides/gui...
- https://www.datocms.com/docs/imp...
Maybe a bit more work involved with Strapi, from what I'm reading quickly:
- https://github.com/strapi/strapi...
- https://strapi.io/blog/how-to-cr...
These are the CMS we often recommend, but there are tons of other very cool tools like Statamic, Ghost, GraphCMS, Directus.
@dan_barak1 Thanks Dan - hopefully we'll do another awesome collabo with Stackbit. 😊
Hey! Good job to the Snipcart team. The new design feels really good and I'm sure I won't be the only one to appreciate the removal of jQuery dependency :)
Is there a list of features missing for v2 parity somewhere?
@olivier_rousseau1 Thanks for the kind words! We're so stoked that jQuery isn't a dependency anymore.
Yes, we do have a list of features we still have to implement, you'll find them at the bottom of this page: https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/
Hi! Congratulations to the team. I am stocked with this release and to see all these new features 🤘
@thibaut_dupont thanks man! We learned a lot from you back in the days. See you at the next JAMstack Québec meetup! 😃
Its awesome but can you please help with more documentation around cart template customization
@tanvi_rajadhyaksha It's most definitely coming, on the roadmap. You're not the first to ask for more explicit guidance on this point - we'll get to it!
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