Autonnel v0.1.0

Picocart

An open-source headless commerce backend.

A drop-in replacement for the parts of Shopify and WooCommerce that Autonnel needs. Shopify Admin API-compatible. Apache-2.0.

Currently in Phase 0. Track progress on GitHub.

Why this exists

Autonnel currently depends on Shopify or WooCommerce as the source of truth for products and orders. Both work, but they're heavyweight for the small subset of API surface that Autonnel actually uses — and they each come with their own hosting, billing, and admin UI.

Picocart implements exactly that subset, runs on the same Cloudflare Workers + Postgres edge stack as Autonnel, and ships under the same Apache-2.0 license. Autonnel ships a built-in Picocart adapter — point it at your Picocart Worker and the funnels-to-orders path works without any integration code to write.

AUTONNEL ↔ SHOPIFY / WOO
Two different runtimes.
SaaS fees or PHP hosting.
Adapter against an external API surface you don't control.
AUTONNEL ↔ PICOCART
Same edge stack, twice.
Cloudflare free tier covers both.
Built-in adapter, Apache-2.0 end to end.

What it does

01 · Catalog

Products, variants, multi-currency pricing

Products with arbitrary variants. Per-currency price tables for cross-market funnels.

02 · Inventory

Single inventory counter per variant

Optional and explicit. No multi-location, no warehouse routing — just one number you can trust.

03 · Orders

Orders & customers

Order create / paid / shipped / delivered / refunded. Customer records. Webhooks for downstream sync.

04 · API

Shopify Admin API-compatible

The subset Autonnel actually calls. Drop-in for adapters already targeting Shopify.

What it doesn't do (yet)

  • No payment processing — Autonnel handles that.
  • No shipping rate calculator.
  • No tax engine.
  • No storefront UI — Autonnel pages render the store.
PICOCART-SAAS

Apache-2.0. The hosted Picocart-SaaS will be free forever for individual stores.