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 deploy sets up an environment with D1, an R2 archive, Access and the root secret; npm create orbcart starts a new project.

Licensed under Apache 2.0. A managed offering is a future direction; there are no cloud plans or pricing commitments today.

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