The whole store. One lightweight plugin. Your hosting.
North Commerce gives you a complete ecommerce stack — checkout, catalog, payments, shipping, tax — in a single clean-coded plugin you install on your own WordPress hosting. Fast by design, built to extend, and yours top to bottom. Your server. Your code. Your data.
The Creator Handbook
A real store shouldn’t cost you a stack of plugins.
Adding commerce to WordPress usually means assembling it piece by piece. One plugin for a checkout that actually converts. Another for the payment flow you want. One for upsells, one for shipping rules, one for the thing that should have been there from the start.
Each one adds code to every page load, another line in the update queue, and another way for something to break the morning of a launch. The store works — but now you maintain a machine made of parts that were never designed to run together.
One plugin. Checkout, catalog, payments, the whole job.
Built to run together from the first request — less code on every page load, fewer things in the update queue.
Built lightweight on purpose.
North Commerce does the whole job — checkout, catalog, payments, variants, shipping, tax, analytics — in one clean, well-built plugin. Here’s what that gets you.
Lightweight by design
One plugin instead of a stack of them. Less code loading on every request means a faster store and a faster site — no caching gymnastics to hide the weight.
Code you’d be happy to inherit
Clean, modern, block-native. It uses the WordPress editor you already know instead of bolting on a separate page builder, and it stays out of your way when you customize.
A checkout that doesn’t bounce buyers
Creator Checkout embeds directly in your page — buyers complete the purchase inline, on your domain, instead of getting redirected to a third-party cart. Fewer steps, fewer drop-offs.
Fewer moving parts, fewer things to break
When the core does the job, you stop stacking plugins. Cleaner updates, fewer conflicts, and mornings you don’t spend untangling code you didn’t write.
Host it literally anywhere
If it runs WordPress, it runs North Commerce. Your VPS, your managed host, your client’s box, the provider you already trust. No forced platform.
Own the store and the data
It’s a plugin on your server. Orders and customers live in your own database. Connect your own Stripe and keep 100% of every sale — North never sits in the payment flow taking a cut.
Live in an afternoon, not a sprint.
No DevOps. No platform onboarding. No sales call to “unlock” the real features.
Install the plugin
Upload and activate on any WordPress site — same as any plugin you’ve installed a hundred times.
Connect your Stripe
One click. Run a test order before you go live.
Add products and launch
Build your catalog or drop a Creator Checkout into an existing sales page. Customize as deep as you want from there.
The whole platform. Nothing held back for a higher tier.
Everything in North Commerce, running on your hosting:
The self-host plugin is the same product we host for Charter customers. No “lite” edition. No core feature paywalled behind a higher tier.
Two ways to run the same plugin.
Same plugin. Same features. The only question is whether you’d rather run the hosting or own it.
Same plugin. Same features. The only question is whether you’d rather run the hosting or own it. Want it hosted for you instead? See Charter →
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.
Common questions.
Annual license + product updates. The same plugin we host for Charter customers, running on your own hosting.
- One license. One plugin. Your server, your Stripe.
- 0% of your sales taken — no per-transaction cut
- No monthly platform bill, no stack of separate renewals
- 30-day refund
North Commerce – Self Hosted
Annual license + product updates. The same plugin we host for Charter customers, running on your own hosting.