An ecommerce backend that lets Astro stay fast and yours.
Build your product pages in Astro. WireGum looks after the cart, live stock, Stripe Checkout and everything that follows an order.
See the Astro starter kit
- Astro
- Fast product pages, content and design.
- WireGum
- Live catalog, cart and commerce operations.
- Stripe
- Checkout and payment in the merchant account.
Astro owns the page. WireGum owns what is sellable.
Store product stories, images and SEO in Astro content collections, a headless CMS or another source. Give each page a stable WireGum product reference for the data that must stay live: variants, price, availability and checkout.
Static pages remain static. WireGum validates the current cart, price and stock when checkout begins, then creates a Stripe Checkout Session on the server.
Add a cart without turning the whole site into an application.
Load the WireGum script and add data attributes wherever Astro renders a price, variant selector or cart control. It works with static output and keeps your components and CSS in charge of the experience.
Need a custom island or design-system component? Fetch public catalog data and create checkout through the versioned storefront API. A read-only key also supports catalog requests during static builds.
Read the Astro integration guideMore than a Stripe payment button.
Stripe Checkout handles payment well. A physical-product store still needs a reliable record of variants, inventory, orders, shipment status and customer communication. WireGum keeps those responsibilities together without taking over the frontend.
- Variants, SKUs, prices and inventory
- Server-validated Stripe Checkout sessions
- Stock reservations and paid-order processing
- Shipping labels and tracking
- Localized order and shipping emails
- A dashboard for day-to-day operations
A backend you can reuse, not another storefront to restyle.
For studios and freelance developers, WireGum turns the least reusable part of a small ecommerce build into a stable service. Start from the Astro kit, adapt the storefront to the project and hand daily operations to the merchant.
WireGum is focused on physical products sold by one merchant through a custom website. Marketplaces, subscriptions, multiple warehouses and enterprise ERP workflows call for a broader platform.
A few practical questions
Can Astro remain fully static?
Yes. Product pages can be statically generated. The widget loads live price and stock, or a build can fetch catalog data with a read-only key. Checkout validation happens on WireGum's backend.
Do I need React or another UI framework?
No. The storefront widget works with HTML data attributes. A custom island can use any framework supported by your Astro project.
Does WireGum replace Stripe?
No. Stripe runs checkout and payment in your own account. WireGum supplies the catalog, cart validation and operational workflow around it.
Where does product content live?
Wherever it makes sense for the website: Astro content collections, a CMS or another content source. WireGum stores sellable commerce data rather than replacing editorial content.
Build the storefront in Astro. Leave commerce operations to WireGum.
Connect a product, test the cart and follow an order through fulfillment before choosing a paid plan.