The commerce platform you own.
Not the one you rent.
SwiftCart is a self-hosted commerce engine for dev shops, agencies, and technical founders. Built with FastAPI, React, and Flutter. Deploy to your infrastructure, customize the source code, and stop paying the Shopify app-tax.
Stop stitching it together.
SwiftCart ships a broad set of commerce capabilities as part of the platform itself. Designed specifically for technical teams who want the speed of SaaS but the ownership of open-source.
More than a storefront.
A platform you control.
Source Ownership
You get full access to the underlying repository. The code is yours, meaning you are never held hostage by a closed-source vendor.
Deployment Control
Host on AWS, Vercel, or anywhere you prefer. Keep your data within your own VPC and scale your infrastructure on your own terms.
Source-Level Customization
No restrictive APIs or limited plugin hooks. You can edit the core logic directly to support any business model or complex requirement.
White-Label Ready
Designed from day one to carry your brand identity. The entire platform can be themed to match your exact visual language in minutes.
Built-in Commerce
Includes all the features that normally require a dozen disparate plugins, deeply integrated into the core platform for maximum performance.
Native Mobile
Deploy natively to iOS and Android sharing the exact same unified backend logic, with seamless React Native integration.
Everything your
store needs.
Don't stop at checkout.
Built-in retention tools.
Loyalty Program
Award points for purchases, reviews, and signups. Configure conversion rates dynamically.
Store Wallet
Process refunds instantly to wallet for higher retention, or allow top-ups for quick checkout.
Advanced Coupons
Percentage, fixed amount, or free shipping. Tie to specific categories, minimum spends, or user segments.
Abandoned Cart
Automated recovery sequences with dynamically generated single-use discount codes.
Customer Experience
Everything you need to keep customers engaged.
Product Reviews
Collect photo reviews and verified purchase tags automatically. Build high-converting social proof with customizable display widgets on every product page.
Product Q&A
Community-driven questions answered by your staff or past buyers. Build a searchable knowledge base directly on the product page to reduce support tickets.
Wishlist
Allow customers to save favorite items for later. Automatically trigger price drop and low-stock alerts to recover sales and drive repeat purchases.
Notifications
Keep customers engaged with automated order updates, promotional broadcasts, and abandoned cart reminders delivered seamlessly via Email, SMS, and Push.
Global Ready
Native multi-currency display via real-time exchange rates. Seamless integrations with TaxJar and Stripe Tax for compliant, automated checkout calculations.
Support
Customer messages arrive pre-categorized (refunds, product questions, delivery issues) with a full status pipeline and internal notes your team can track from open to resolved.
Push Notifications
Send targeted or broadcast messages to your customers — order updates, promotions, price drops — with a live preview of exactly what they'll see before you hit send.
Under the Hood
Powerful built-in capabilities that keep your storefront fast, discoverable, and easy to manage.
Content Management
Built-in blog, dynamic pages, and rich text editors for marketing teams without relying on WordPress.
SEO Infrastructure
Automated sitemaps, canonical tags, schema markup for products, and fully server-side rendered storefronts.
Progressive Web App
Installable on desktop and mobile browsers. Service workers for offline fallback and fast consecutive loads.
Know what is happening inside your store.
Real-time analytics, order routing, and platform configuration in one place.
System Status
Live Branding
Configure primary colors, logos, and brand names directly from settings. It applies instantly everywhere.
Turn the platform into your platform.
Brand Configuration
Live Theme Editor
Not a mockup. Change 4 values, save, and your entire storefront and admin panel re-skin instantly.
One codebase.
Three ways to build a business.
License for Yourself
Buy once, host on your own infrastructure, and build your bespoke e-commerce experience without platform risk.
Resell as a Service
Spin up instances for your clients. Brand the admin panel as your own agency's proprietary commerce engine.
Project Delivery
Use SwiftCart as a robust starting point for complex enterprise commerce builds, saving months of backend setup.
For Dev Agencies
Stop building carts from scratch for every client. Deliver a premium, source-owned commerce solution in a fraction of the time.
For Platform Founders
Building a niche commerce platform? Start with a foundation that covers 90% of your baseline requirements out of the box.
Technical Note
Single-Tenant Architecture
SwiftCart currently runs as a single-tenant platform — each deployment gets its own database.
Today
- •Single-tenant
- •1 DB per deployment
- •SQLite / PostgreSQL
For Multi-Tenant SaaS
- ○Tenant isolation
- ○Tenant-scoped data
- ○Subdomain routing
- ○Per-tenant settings
Why not a plugin stack?
Core features (CMS, SEO, Reviews, Accounts) are built-in so your store never breaks. For external tools, we use reliable event-driven webhooks instead of injecting bloated 3rd-party code.
The hidden cost of renting.
The base platform is cheap. The ecosystem to make it usable is not.
Monthly App-Tax
How we compare
| Feature | SwiftCart | Shopify | WooCommerce |
|---|---|---|---|
| B2B & Wholesale Logic | Plus Only ($2k/mo) | Needs Plugins | |
| 100% Data Sovereignty | |||
| Custom Omnichannel POS | Extra Fees | Needs Plugins | |
| Source Code Ownership | |||
| No App-Tax | |||
| Modern Tech Stack (React/Next) | |||
| Native Mobile App | |||
| Built-in RBAC | Plus Only | ||
| No Transaction Fees |
1-Click Shopify Migration.
Zero downtime.
Export Data
Export your products, customers, and orders from Shopify/WooCommerce as CSV/JSON.
Upload & Map
Use the SwiftCart admin importer to map your legacy fields to the new schema.
Continue Building
Your data is now in your own PostgreSQL database, ready to be extended.
Technology Stack
Backend
Storefront
Mobile Apps
Database
Security
Payments
Source ownership comes with responsibility.
Unlike SaaS platforms where security is abstracted away, owning your source code means you own your infrastructure security.
- Parameterized queries
- Argon2 password hashing
- JWT rotation
- Strict RBAC
- Server hardening
- Database encryption at rest
- Network security
You never touch raw card data.
Enterprise buyers can't afford to store raw PANs in a self-hosted database. SwiftCart architecturally mandates tokenized checkout flows (Stripe Elements, Razorpay). Your servers only handle payment intents and webhook confirmations.
PCI Level 1
FastAPI & Postgres
Built-in Fraud Tooling
Basic velocity checks and IP tracking are built into the SwiftCart core. For advanced machine-learning chargeback protection, webhooks seamlessly feed into Radar or Signifyd.
SAQ-A Compliant
Because your server never touches, transmits, or stores raw card strings, your deployment qualifies for the simplest PCI compliance self-assessment questionnaire (SAQ-A).
Tested to 10,000 req/sec.
We don't use fluffy terms like "engineered for scale." We use k6. SwiftCart's FastAPI backend delivers <50ms latency under heavy concurrent load on a standard $40/mo VPS.
The foundation is built.
The platform can keep getting bigger.
Multi-Tenant SaaS Support
Database architecture changes to support unlimited isolated tenants.
Additional Gateways
Native Stripe and PayPal integrations with webhook handlers.
Push Notifications
Firebase integration for the native mobile apps.
Multi-Currency & i18n
Dynamic pricing based on region and full storefront localization.
Object Storage + CDN
S3 adapters for media uploads instead of local file storage.
Honest Architecture Report
We believe in full transparency. Here is exactly what the platform can and cannot do today.
What exists today
- Single-tenant PostgreSQL/SQLite database
- Complete REST API via FastAPI
- Razorpay Payment Gateway integration
- Next.js App Router Storefront
- Local file storage for media
Coming next (Roadmap)
- Stripe & PayPal integrations
- Multi-tenant SaaS support out of the box
- AWS S3 / Google Cloud Storage adapters
- Multi-currency support
Trusted by technical founders
See how dev shops and enterprise brands are using SwiftCart to bypass Shopify's limitations and build their own commerce platforms.
"SwiftCart allowed us to completely bypass traditional platform limitations. We built a fully customized, scalable commerce architecture that perfectly aligns with our unique business needs, all while maintaining complete ownership of our code."
Frequently Asked Questions
Licensing Options
Source code access for your specific use case.
Website SaaS
Complete access to the high-performance React storefront and the underlying operations dashboard.
Mobile SaaS
Full access to the native iOS and Android apps powered by our robust backend.
Web + Mobile (Both)
The ultimate package. Get complete access to the web storefront, admin, and native mobile apps.
Stop renting the foundation of your commerce business.
Commerce infrastructure for merchants, agencies, developers, and platform builders.