ORBCART DOCUMENTATION
Project status
What works today, what is being built and what comes next.
Status as of 27 September 2026.
The project is pre-release: nothing is on npm yet and the repository is not public. This board lists what the source proves today, what is being built and what comes next.
Works today
- Carts, signed Quotes and Orders through the same API for storefronts and agents.
- Merchant Offers, stock checks and reservations, Order delivery with retries.
- EU VAT for Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and France; shipping rules and exclusions.
- Stripe card payments, 3-D Secure, wallets and supported redirect methods.
- Discount codes, including redemption limits.
- Identified buyers through your own identity system, shared Carts and buyer Order lists.
- A framework-free client, server-side Admin SDK and React checkout kit.
- Order reads, fulfillment, acknowledgment and partial refunds.
- A public test shop. Nothing is charged or shipped.
Being built
- The merchant surface for the first release. A theming contract and default labels per language for the kit.
- The Nordgrat shop. The final checks on the deployed demo: purchases with 3-D Secure, accessibility and performance.
- PayPal. The adapter already runs against PayPal's sandbox; it becomes a built-in provider.
- The order explorer. An overview, the order list and order details, behind Cloudflare Access. It is not deployed for use yet.
Next
- A legally complete checkout. Legal texts, an order confirmation email, an order page and a withdrawal button.
- Events to your systems. Signed events delivered to your webhooks.
- More payments. Adyen, invoice and bank payments, then Mollie, Unzer and PAYONE.
- Agent protocols. UCP checkout and order endpoints and AP2 merchant signatures. The mappings exist in code and tests; they are not served yet.
- Setup in one command.
orbcart deploysets up an environment with D1, an R2 archive, Access and the root secret;npm create orbcartstarts a new project.
Licensed under Apache 2.0. A managed offering is a future direction; there are no cloud plans or pricing commitments today.