The store, built into the site that sells it.
North Commerce gives creators and service sellers a hosted commerce site where your content, product pages, checkout, and payments live on the same domain. No stitched stack. No platform that owns your audience and a one-click escape hatch if you ever want out.
The Creator Handbook
Your content is doing the selling. Your stack is taking the credit.
You write the post that builds the trust. You publish the page that warms up the buyer. You send the email that gets them ready to pay.
Then you hand them off to a cart tool on a different platform, a checkout on someone else’s domain, a brand the buyer’s never seen before. Your conversion drops on the last click, and every month you keep paying for the stitching.
One site. One CMS. One checkout. One bill.
A managed site with commerce already built in — on your domain, behind one login.
A hosted commerce site where everything lives in one place.
North gives you a managed site with commerce already built in. Products, checkout, Stripe, cart, orders, starter templates configured, on your domain, behind one login. Hosting and updates handled. You write the content, list the offer, and take the payment without leaving the building.
- 01Managed hosting handled for you
- 02Commerce installed and configured out of the box
- 03Stripe checkout on your domain
- 04Starter templates for the offers you actually sell
Launch checklist
2 of 5 completeMost platforms own your business. We don’t.
Every other platform on this page makes leaving expensive, your subscription customers stay with them, your URLs break, your data is held hostage.
North Commerce gives you two ways out, both built in.
See the self-host plugin →Self-host your North Commerce store.
Our $199/yr WordPress plugin runs the same store on your own server. Same checkout, same product pages, same content — just hosted by you.
Take your customers with you.
We never become the Merchant of Record. Your Stripe account is yours. Your customer list is yours. Your domain is yours — from day one.
- Stripe account in your name
- Customer list exports as CSV anytime
- Your domain stays with you
If you ever outgrow hosted — or just want to take everything with you — you can.
From a new site to your first test order in under 30 minutes.
Five steps. No plugin scavenger hunts, no theme conflicts, no hosting research. We’ve already made the boring decisions for you.
Get your hosted site
We spin up your managed site with North Commerce installed and configured.
Add your first product
Name, price, image, type. Publish.
Connect Stripe
One click. Test mode and live mode included.
Run a test checkout
Buy your own product. See exactly what your customer sees.
Publish and start selling
Share the link. Track orders inside your admin.
Your content and your checkout belong in the same place.
Write the article. Publish the landing page. Show the product. Take the payment. Manage the order. All on one site. North keeps the commerce layer close to the content that’s actually doing the selling so the buyer never feels handed off, and you never wonder why your conversion dropped on the last click.
- →Product pages and content pages in one editor
- →SEO-friendly URLs and structure on a domain you own
- →Native block-based editing — no separate page builder
- →Self-host path available if you ever outgrow hosted
- →No platform transaction fees from North
How I found my first 100 paying customers without paid ads.
Built for simple stores where content does the selling.
Digital products
Ebooks, guides, audio downloads.
Templates and resources
Notion templates, swipe files, content packs.
Coaching packages
Strategy sessions, multi-session containers.
Workshops and live events
Single-ticket or cohort, with date and seat counts.
Consulting offers
Fixed-scope service packages with clear deliverables.
Simple physical products
Small catalogs, light fulfillment, single warehouse.
If your business needs POS, warehouses, advanced fulfillment, or a giant app marketplace, North isn’t the right tool yet. North is for creators with simple offers who want a clean checkout on a site they own.
Don’t want to set it up yourself? We’ll do it for you.
Our team will set up your North Commerce store, write your product pages from your existing content, and have you live in as little as 7 days.
DFY Express
- 1 product page + checkout
- Page based on your logo, colors, & fonts
- Stripe + tax connected
DFY Standard
- Up to 3 product pages
- Homepage + sales page + lead-magnet page
- Stripe + tax + email opt-in wiring
DFY Pro
- Up to 5 product pages
- Homepage + sales + about + blog template
- 3-email welcome sequence wired
- Migration from Kajabi / Gumroad / Stan included
Pay after we have something to show you. Available to all Charter customers.
Where North Commerce fits and where it doesn’t
We’re not trying to replace every platform. Choose the right one for your business.
Choose Shopify if your business is a pure online store with a big catalog. Choose ThriveCart if funnels and affiliates are the core need. Choose WooCommerce if you have a developer and love control. Choose North Commerce if your content already sells the offer and you want the checkout to live on the same site, without becoming your own IT department.
Charter Pricing: $199 for your first year.
The first 100 hosted stores get the platform at $199 for year one. After that, it’s $39/month and your rate stays locked at the charter price for a second year if you stay.
- 01$199 for the first 12 months (then $39/mo)
- 02Second year at charter pricing if you renew early
- 03100 spots total — closed batch
- 04Everything in Hosted Starter, no feature downgrades
- 0530-day refund, no questions
What you don’t get: mandatory onboarding calls, weekly office hours, or a community Slack to keep up with. Charter Pricing is just the price. Show up when you need help, build at your own pace.
Then $39/mo after year one. Cancel anytime.
Charter customers help shape the product while we grow and expand the feature set more methodically.
Pay when you go live. Not before.
Three plans, one rule: you’re billed the day your custom domain points at your store. Until then, build, design, and run test orders on staging — free. No card to start.
Charter
- No credit card to start
- $199 billed the day you point your domain at your store
- Then $39/mo after the first year
- First 100 hosted stores · rate-locked for year two
- 30-day refund starts after you launch
Self Hosted
- Paid in full at checkout
- Plugin license for your own WordPress install
- Annual license + product updates
- Community support & documentation
- 30-day refund — no questions
Self Hosted
- For freelancers, studios & small agencies
- Spin up unlimited* client sites in staging — free
- Billed only when a client domain goes live
- Agency dashboard
- Priority support & partner directory
What North is not — yet.
The first hosted version is intentionally narrow so it can be reliable. Here’s exactly what it doesn’t try to be:
If any of those is a dealbreaker, this isn’t the right tool for you. If none of them are, claim your Charter spot below.
Why I rebuilt North.
The first version of North Commerce was ambitious and had a wide scope of features. People loved the checkout and the design. They struggled with the WordPress setup.
So I made a call: stop competing on every feature with every platform. The hosted version does one thing — give creators a place to sell from a site they own, without becoming their own IT department.
Fewer features. Cleaner setup. A narrower promise — and pricing that rewards the first 100 people who trust the rebuild.
— KELLEY MURO, FOUNDER
FOUNDER – KELLEY MUROCommon questions.
Want your store live on a site you actually own?
Charter Pricing is open to the first 100 hosted stores. $199 for year one. 30-day refund after you go live. No mandatory calls, no community to keep up with — just the platform at a price that rewards trusting the rebuild early.
30-day refund · No credit card required to claim · Year-two rate lock if you renew early