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Give your customers a polished pickup-ordering experience with configurable time slots, a modern card-view storefront, customer accounts, and a built-in admin dashboard - all without WooCommerce.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Built for:<\/strong> farm shops, bakeries, butchers, delis, greengrocers, fishmongers, florists, coffee roasters, pizza shops, meal-prep kitchens, and any business where customers order ahead and collect.<\/p>\n\n<h4>What you get in the free build<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Click &amp; collect ordering<\/strong> with configurable time slots on your pickup schedule.<\/li>\n<li><strong>One pickup location<\/strong> with its own address, collection instructions, opening hours, and per-slot capacity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Card-view storefront<\/strong> with category filters, search, and mini-basket.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Customer accounts<\/strong> with order history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Admin order management<\/strong> with a status lifecycle (pending, confirmed, ready, collected, cancelled).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seven transactional email templates<\/strong> (order confirmation, status updates, cancellations, modifications, customer messaging) with branding controls and a live preview editor. Plus three admin notifications.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cash on collection<\/strong> and <strong>bank transfer<\/strong> payment methods.<\/li>\n<li><strong>5 Gutenberg blocks and 5 shortcodes<\/strong> for embedding BoxCart anywhere - products, basket, checkout, account, mini basket.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developer-friendly<\/strong> - 20 action hooks, 11 filter hooks, CSS custom properties throughout, zero external PHP dependencies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cache-resilient<\/strong> - pages render as empty shells that hydrate via AJAX, with a bypass cookie for customer sessions. Compatible with Cloudflare, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, and similar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Translation-ready<\/strong> with a <code>.pot<\/code> file included.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GDPR-aware<\/strong> - self-hosted fonts, optional full data cleanup on uninstall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Why BoxCart?<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Standalone - no WooCommerce required.<\/strong> A single, focused plugin with its own data model.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time-slot ordering baked in.<\/strong> Configure your schedule, slot length, and capacity. 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Optionally add a fourth <strong>Account<\/strong> page if you want customers to be able to sign in and view past orders (BoxCart works as guest-checkout-only without it). Assign them all in <strong>BoxCart &rarr; Settings &rarr; General &rarr; Page Setup<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>BoxCart &rarr; Locations<\/strong> and add your pickup location, opening hours, and time slots.<\/li>\n<li>Add your products under <strong>BoxCart &rarr; Products<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Place a test order end-to-end to verify everything is wired up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>Full step-by-step walkthrough at <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.boxcart.dev\/getting-started.html\">docs.boxcart.dev\/getting-started<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"do%20i%20need%20woocommerce%3F\"><h3>Do I need WooCommerce?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. BoxCart is fully standalone with its own products, orders, payments, and customer accounts. 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