Cartrop is everything Shopify charges rent for — catalog, inventory, orders, returns, discounts, analytics, storefronts — rebuilt as one fast, open platform. Flat pricing. 0% transaction fees. We're opening it to founding merchants first.
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Gross sales
$31,204
+18.4%
Orders
412
+9.1%
Conversion
3.8%
+0.6pt
Inventory ledger
3 locations · reconciled
ledger commit · SKU TEE-BLK-M
on_hand 214 → 212 · committed +2
immutable · 09:41:02.114
Platform fees this month
$0.00
0% of GMV. Always.
Built with independent brands, for independent brands
0%
Transaction fees, on any gateway
<120ms
p95 storefront response, global edge
1,000+
Variants per product, 3 option axes
100%
Of your data, exportable any day
The average Shopify store runs 12–20 paid apps just to do commerce basics. Cartrop ships the entire stack natively — one codebase, one bill, no plugin roulette.
Write a rule once — tag, price, vendor, stock level — and products flow in and out automatically, in real time. No manual tagging, no nightly sync jobs.
WHEN tag contains "linen" AND stock > 0
→ 34 products matched · updated 0.6ms ago
On hand, committed, reserved, incoming, damaged — every movement is an immutable entry, per location. Flash sales can't oversell what the ledger won't allow.
+120 incoming · PO-2214
−2 committed · order #1042
= 212 available
Three option axes, 1,000+ variants per product. Rename an option and SKUs, barcodes, and inventory links all survive — no collisions, no orphans.
Stacked codes, automatic promotions, and issued gift cards with full balance history — the things other platforms outsource to three different apps.
Approvals, exchanges, refunds, and restocks in one flow — each writing back to the ledger and the customer timeline automatically.
Sales, conversion, repeat rate, sell-through by location — computed on live data, drillable to the order. When you do want raw data, export everything with one click.
No card, no contract, no sales call. Join the queue, and when your batch opens you get a real migration and a real person behind it.
One email address and your position is locked — nothing else is asked of you, and nothing is charged.
We open early access in batches so every founding merchant gets a real migration and a real human when something goes sideways.
Connect Shopify or upload a CSV. Products, variants, images, inventory per location, and customers land automatically — while your current store keeps selling.
Preview the storefront behind a password until you are happy, then point DNS. Founding pricing is locked for the life of the account.
Platform fees, app subscriptions, per-store licenses, gateway penalties — what you pay today, against what Cartrop charges at launch.
| Capability | Cartrop | Shopify Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Transaction fee on external gateways | 0%, always | 0.5% – 2% penalty |
| Apps needed for commerce basics | Zero — all native | 12 – 20 paid apps |
| Extra store instances | Included, unlimited | ~$2,300/mo each |
| Multi-location inventory ledger | Native, immutable | Third-party app |
| Storefront response (p95) | Under 120ms at the edge | 800ms+ with app scripts |
| Data ownership & export | Full export, any time | Proprietary silo |
Comparison figures are Shopify's published Plus pricing and widely reported app spend, as of this page's last update.
The price you join at is the price you keep — through every plan change, every funding round, every year you stay. It does not reset at renewal.
A real person runs your import: products, variants, images, per-location stock, customers, collections. You review the mapping before a single record is written.
A shared channel with the people writing the code. Bugs get triaged the day you report them, and the roadmap is still soft enough for your answer to change it.
Full export in open formats from day one, on your own domain, against an uncapped API. The door out is built before you walk in — that is what makes staying a choice.
The early-access queue for Cartrop, an independent commerce platform. We are opening it in batches so every founding merchant gets a real migration and a real answer when something breaks. Joining costs nothing, commits you to nothing, and reserves your place in line.
Founding-merchant onboarding starts as soon as your batch opens; general availability follows. We would rather move an estimate than move a broken product, so instead of a countdown you get build notes every two weeks and an email the moment your spot is live.
Locked-in founding pricing for the life of the account, a hands-on migration from your current platform, a direct line to the people building the thing, and real influence over the roadmap while it is still soft.
Yes. Cartrop charges a flat subscription and takes no cut of your sales, on any payment provider. There is no penalty for using Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, PayPal, cash on delivery, or your own merchant account. That is the whole point of the product.
Export your Shopify CSV or connect an Admin API key, and Cartrop maps products, variants, images, per-location inventory, customers, and collections automatically. Your existing store keeps selling the entire time — you only flip DNS once you have looked at the result and are happy.
Joining gets you a personal link. Every merchant who signs up through it moves you forward in line. No purchase, no social posting quota, no gimmick — just the queue, reordered.
It is stored so we can tell you when your spot opens, and — only if you tick the box — send build notes. It is never sold, never rented, never handed to a data broker. Ask us at any time and we will take you off the list entirely.
One email address reserves your spot. No card, no commitment, and a one-click way out of every message we ever send you.