BoxCart – Local Pickup & Click and Collect Ordering

BoxCart is a standalone click and collect ordering plugin for WordPress. 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.

Whether you call it local pickup, click and collect, store pickup, or order ahead, it is the same idea: customers order online and collect in person, at a time that suits them. BoxCart handles the whole flow, from storefront to time slots to order management, without the weight of a full e-commerce platform.

Built for: farm shops, bakeries, butchers, delis, greengrocers, fishmongers, florists, coffee roasters, pizza shops, meal-prep kitchens, and any business where customers order ahead and collect.

What you get in the free build

• Guided Setup – a five-minute wizard creates your shop pages, your collection point and time slots, your first product, how customers pay, and VAT.
• Click & collect ordering with configurable time slots on your pickup schedule. Set up one day, then copy its slots to the others.
• Order cut-offs your way – close orders a set number of hours before each slot, or at a set time before the collection day, such as 1pm the day before.
• One pickup location with its own address, collection instructions, opening hours, and per-slot capacity.
• Card-view storefront with category filters, search, and mini-basket. Optionally let customers hide out of stock products with a tick box.
• Sell by unit, weight, or pack – offer multiple quantity options per product, such as single units, 500g, 1kg, or a 6-pack.
• Customer accounts with order history, plus optional up-front registration. Sign-in, registration and password reset happen on your shop’s own pages and work with security plugins (CAPTCHAs, lockouts, two-step sign-in, hidden login pages).
• Admin order management with a status lifecycle (pending, processing, ready, completed, cancelled). Optionally complete orders automatically after the collection day. Delete cancelled orders, such as test orders.
• Order export to CSV from the orders screen, filtered by date, status, and location.
• Transactional email templates (order confirmation and status updates) with branding controls and a live preview editor. Plus a new-order email for your shop, in full or compact layout: reply to it to answer the customer. And an optional daily email listing the day’s collections, at a time you choose.
• Cash on collection and bank transfer payment methods.
• 5 Gutenberg blocks and 5 shortcodes for embedding BoxCart anywhere – products, basket, checkout, account, mini basket.
• Developer-friendly – 50+ action hooks and 45+ filter hooks, CSS custom properties throughout, zero external PHP dependencies.
• Cache-resilient – pages render as empty shells that hydrate via AJAX, with a bypass cookie for customer sessions. Compatible with Cloudflare, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, and similar.
• Translation-ready with a .pot file included.
• GDPR-aware – self-hosted fonts, optional full data cleanup on uninstall.

Why BoxCart?

• Standalone – no WooCommerce required. A single, focused plugin with its own data model.
• Time-slot ordering baked in. Configure your schedule, slot length, and capacity. Customers see live availability.
• Developer extensible – documented hooks, filters, and CSS custom properties.
• Not a stripped-down demo – the free build is a complete, working click & collect store.

Paid Pro upgrade (optional)

A paid Pro build is available from boxcart.dev with additional features:

• Multiple pickup locations
• Stripe card payments (with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, Klarna, PayPal, Afterpay)
• Table-view storefront
• Members-only pricing (hide prices and the add-to-cart button from logged-out visitors)
• Customer favourites and one-click reorder
• Two-way order messaging
• Customer-side order changes from their account, for a set number of hours or right up to the order cut-off, including orders paid by card: the difference is refunded automatically, or paid at collection. Items already ordered keep the price paid; extra items cost today’s price
• Card refunds from the order screen
• Holiday closures, special collection times for a date (such as shorter hours on Christmas Eve), and per-date capacity overrides
• Printable pick lists & packing slips
• Sales reports
• CSV product & category import/export
• 195+ customisation settings

Pro is optional – the free build will continue to receive updates and is genuinely useful on its own.

Live demo

Three demo stores at demo.boxcart.dev – a greengrocer, a bakery, and a butcher – each configured differently to show the range of what BoxCart can do.

Documentation

Full documentation at docs.boxcart.dev covering every admin workflow and the developer API.

External Services

This plugin uses the Freemius plugin framework (https://freemius.com/) for optional anonymous usage tracking, licence handling for the paid Pro upgrade, and update delivery for Pro customers. Freemius is a well-known WordPress plugin distribution platform and the integration is entirely standard.

What data is sent, and when:

• When you activate BoxCart, you are shown an opt-in prompt asking whether to share anonymous usage diagnostics. You can skip the prompt – the plugin works either way.
• If you opt in, Freemius receives: your site URL, admin email, WordPress version, PHP version, plugin version, activation/deactivation events, and non-personal environment data (e.g. active theme, locale). You can opt out at any time from BoxCart → Account.
• If you purchase the Pro upgrade, Freemius also handles your licence key, renewal state, and update delivery for the Pro build.
• BoxCart never sends your customers’ data, your orders, your products, or the contents of your store to Freemius or anywhere else.

Endpoints contacted: api.freemius.com, wp.freemius.com.

Freemius’s own privacy policy and terms:

• https://freemius.com/privacy/
• https://freemius.com/terms/