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Built openly, badged honestly.

Explore current capabilities and the work coming next. Shipped features are available in production within their stated setup and permission requirements. In-development and planned items are marked separately so you can see what is available and what is coming next.

Shipped today

What you can do this afternoon.

Use these capabilities through their merchant, customer or documented API surfaces, as applicable. Payment, shipping and email services require the relevant setup. See the changelog for ship dates.

Multi-tenant foundations

  • Staff sign-in and session handling
  • Owner/Admin/Staff base roles with permission presets and groups for delegated writes
  • Tenant memberships and org switching for staff who work across brands
  • Organization-scoped operations enforce tenant access; internal platform operations require separate staff authority

Catalog CRUD

  • Products and variants with create, edit, archive, and restore
  • Brand, vendor, and product family fields
  • Compare-at pricing on items and variants for sale presentation
  • Soft-delete + restore returns archived items to DRAFT for explicit re-publish

Product information management

  • Item and variant metafield text editors with inferred value-type badges
  • Per-channel publication metadata for your frontend to interpret
  • Custom field values; inferred badges do not enforce a typed schema
  • Product specification data your storefront can present on product pages

Collections + CMS pages

  • Collection create, edit, archive, restore, and item assignment/reorder
  • CMS page create, edit, archive, restore with preview-friendly status handling
  • Public APIs return updated collections and pages for tenant storefronts

Inventory + stock lifecycle

  • On-hand, reserved, and available stock tracked per variant
  • Reservation-aware stock, cancellation releases, and fulfillment deductions
  • Low-stock admin alerts and out-of-stock status exposed via API
  • Back-in-stock signup and email notifications with configured delivery

Pricing rules

  • Coupon codes with merchant CRUD and storefront cart-apply
  • Automatic discounts applied at the cart without a code
  • Sale windows with scheduled start/end price changes
  • Cart bundle and discount previews, with authoritative totals bound at checkout

Order management

  • Order statuses, line items, and a customer activity timeline
  • Status transitions, order notes, and a fulfillment status flow
  • Orders list with URL-driven status filter and line-item counts
  • Merchant order management UI in admin

B2B commerce documents

  • Quotes, invoices, contract packets, and wholesale or admin-created orders
  • Quote-to-order conversion without re-keying the customer or line items
  • Secure customer action links and signed-in account access to the right document
  • Server-authoritative payment and refund ledger with balance read-back

Tenant-owned Stripe payments

  • Connect and verify a tenant Stripe account from merchant admin
  • Direct charges settle to the tenant account; the tenant remains merchant of record
  • Saved cards, tax, webhooks, and refunds stay scoped to the processing account
  • Payment-account status and fail-closed readiness checks before checkout

Shipping

  • Configurable shipping zones and rates with merchant CRUD
  • Public read for storefront shipping-rate preview at the cart
  • Archived rates drop out of checkout immediately

Returns / RMA

  • Customer return request flow with a merchant approval state machine
  • Eligible original-payment refunds with pending and confirmed outcome states
  • Refund-required returns complete after confirmed refund processing
  • Restock of resellable items on receipt
  • Return lifecycle notifications with configured email delivery

Abandoned cart capture and review

  • Storefront cart capture with an optional contact address
  • Merchant API review of anonymous cart snapshots
  • Recovery emails are unavailable for these anonymous cart snapshots.

Catalog media

  • Signed upload URLs for tenant-scoped media storage
  • Item images and collection images with alt text and focal point
  • Image create, update, delete, and reorder APIs
  • Image removal is separate from stored-file retention and cleanup

Audit log

  • Append-only audit records persisted per tenant
  • Captures admin writes, auth events, API-key changes, and platform support access
  • Merchant-visible audit viewer in admin
  • Records include actor, tenant, action, target, timestamp, and metadata

Tenant settings + onboarding

  • Business profile and tenant settings persisted via merchant API
  • Onboarding checklist with state tracked per tenant
  • Read-only platform-admin view of tenant setup state

Signup and tenant onboarding

  • Signup requests with abuse filtering and the current approval policy
  • Tenant provisioning after the applicable approval checks
  • Operator-controlled signup and auto-approval settings
  • Free includes the full platform within its usage limits

Optional hosted checkout

  • Hosted checkout with tenant branding and server-priced totals
  • Choose litecheckout or build your own checkout against the API
  • Payment confirmation follows authoritative server/provider results

Customer accounts and directory

  • Customer sign-in, profiles, addresses, order history and supported account actions
  • Optional hosted account pages alongside your own storefront
  • Merchant customer directory and profile foundations; expanded stewardship tools remain on the roadmap

Checkout API for custom storefronts

  • Server-priced checkout sessions and payment handoff for custom frontends
  • The server binds the final total before handing off to payment
  • See Developers for storefront API key access and import scopes

Shipping labels and shipment preparation

  • Compare services, quote before purchase and buy labels with a configured shipping provider
  • Prepare selected order lines and packages, then record physical carrier handoff
  • Buying a label does not mark a shipment handed off or delivered
  • Carrier-event automation and expanded return shipping remain separate work

Transactional email customization

  • Edit supported email subjects, body copy, sender name and reply-to
  • Preview templates and send tests with configured delivery
  • System links and compliance content remain controlled by the platform

Product reviews and ratings

  • Customer review submission and published review/rating reads
  • Merchant moderation and verified-purchase support

Newsletter capture and subscriber lists

  • Opt-in signup and confirmation with configured email delivery
  • Merchant subscriber lists and export
  • Campaign authoring and sending are outside the current capture tools

See our customer examples for different brands and workflows using the same backend.

On the roadmap

What's next.

Badges distinguish active development from planned work. Features are included on every plan as they become available; limits and support differ. Release scope and availability are confirmed at launch.

In Development

Taxes at Checkout

Calculate checkout tax through the merchant's verified Stripe account when the tax provider is enabled and ready.

In Development

Bookings and Scheduling

Services, availability, calendar holds, deposits, and reschedule/cancel policies.

In Development

Customer Subscriptions

Recurring customer plans, billing cycles, subscription changes, and access tied to each subscription.

In Development

POS and In-Person Sales

Sell in person from a mobile device, with payments, inventory, and sales connected to the same store.

In Development

Self-Service API Key Management

Manage server-side API keys, scopes, and integration access from merchant admin, with clearer setup tools for your agent.

In Development

Manual Checkout Recovery

Review incomplete hosted checkouts and send eligible shoppers a manual reminder to return to the storefront cart. No automatic sending or exact cart restoration.

Planned

Customer Profile Tools

Expanded profile editing, notes, tags, and customer relationship tools beyond the existing customer directory.

Planned

Guided Catalog Migration

Source-platform connectors, guided catalog imports, validation, and clear import progress.

Planned

Promotion Controls and Storefront Previews

Expanded merchant controls and storefront previews for promotion eligibility and sale exclusions.

In Development

Carrier Tracking Automation

Carrier-event updates for labels bought through litecommerce, building on the shipping-label and shipment-preparation tools available today.

In Development

Payment-Method Controls

Choose which payment methods you offer, with clear availability rules across checkout and recurring billing.

In Development

Storefront-to-Checkout Analytics

Consent-aware continuity and attribution between storefront and hosted checkout, beyond the existing hosted-checkout analytics setup.

Planned

Buy Online, Pick Up In Store

Offer pickup choices online and coordinate store stock, pickup readiness, and customer handoffs.

Planned

Expanded Returns and Return Shipping

Additional return options and return-shipping workflows beyond the existing return approvals and original-payment refunds.

In Development

Storefront Sandbox Testing

Test tenant-hosted storefronts and checkout with isolated commerce data, building on the Admin environment foundation. Full storefront and test-payment adoption is still in progress.

In Development

Plan Billing and Usage Controls

litecommerce-managed plan subscriptions, billing periods, invoices and entitlements, with Stripe providing payment and Tax services. Paid launch and the remaining plan-management tools are still in development.

Planned

Managed Email and Newsletter Connections

Managed email controls and Newsletter subscriber/preference sync, with Klaviyo first. This remains planning work; campaign creation and sending stay with your email service.

Early access

Want a tenant now?

Request access and, once approved, we'll provision your tenant on Free — then walk you through the API and your storefront options.

Free includes the full platform within its usage limits.