Cartly
Sell Shopify Products on Your ExpressionEngine Site
Sell Shopify Products on Your ExpressionEngine Site
Love ExpressionEngine. Love Shopify. Hate duct-taping APIs together.
Cartly is the clean bridge between Shopify’s commerce engine and ExpressionEngine’s templating power. It lets you sell Shopify products directly inside your EE templates while Shopify handles checkout, inventory, and order management.
No iframe hacks. No headless build required. No theme lock-in.
Just Shopify + ExpressionEngine, done right.
Why Cartly?
Shopify is incredible at commerce. ExpressionEngine is incredible at structured content.
Cartly gives you the best of both worlds:
- Pull Shopify products into EE templates
- Fully control markup and layout
- Use native EE tags and conditionals
- Sync products locally for speed
- Keep checkout 100% powered by Shopify
You get flexibility without sacrificing stability.
What You Can Do
Display Products Anywhere
Use simple EE tag pairs to:
- Filter by collection, vendor, tag, or type
- Sort by price, title, or date
- Limit and paginate
- Loop through variants
- Loop through images
- Show sale and sold-out states
- Access raw and formatted pricing
All rendered through your templates, your markup, your design system.
Render a Complete Buy Button
Drop in a single tag and get:
- Variant selector
- Quantity selector
- Add-to-cart functionality
- Cart drawer interaction
When a user adds an item, the cart updates instantly and persists across page refreshes using Shopify’s cart ID.
Build a Full Storefront
Cartly includes a complete storefront tag with:
- Client-side filtering
- Vendor filters
- Product type filters
- Price range filters
- Sorting controls
Fast. Responsive. Fully customizable.
Add Live AJAX Search
Drop in {exp:cartly:search} and get real-time product search with:
- Image
- Title
- Price
- Vendor
Debounced, clean, and fast.
Collections, Single Products, Quick Tags
Display:
- Product grids
- Single product pages
- Single-value fields like title, description, or pricing
- Collection listings
- A collection with its products
Everything you need to build a fully custom shop experience inside EE.
Cart Experience Built In
Cartly includes:
- Floating cart icon with item count
- Slide-in drawer or modal cart style
- Subtotals and line items
- Direct checkout option
- Persistent cart state via localStorage
The experience feels native, not bolted on.
Sync for Speed
Cartly syncs Shopify products and collections into your local EE database for fast rendering.
You can:
- Run manual syncs
- Enable real-time webhook updates
- View detailed sync logs
- Monitor product and collection counts
No live API call on every page load. No storefront performance issues.
Just fast templates.
Secure by Design
- Storefront tokens are public and read-only
- Admin tokens stay server-side
- Webhooks verified with HMAC-SHA256
- Cart mutations require CSRF tokens
- Read-only endpoints protected appropriately
Commerce security without extra complexity.
Full Control Panel Integration
Cartly adds a complete CP section including:
- Dashboard with sync overview
- Connection testing
- Display and cart settings
- Appearance and branding controls
- Currency configuration
- Product and collection browsers
- Sync history log
It feels native to ExpressionEngine because it is.
Flexible Theming
Cartly uses CSS custom properties so you can:
- Set primary brand color in the CP
- Override variables in your own CSS
- Match your existing design system instantly
No rigid UI. No styling fights.
Built for Agencies and Developers
Cartly is perfect if you:
- Build custom EE sites but want Shopify checkout
- Need Shopify power without Shopify theme constraints
- Want structured content + structured commerce
- Manage multiple client stores
- Need fast, maintainable builds
It removes friction between two powerful platforms.
Database Cleanliness
Cartly creates only what it needs:
- Products
- Variants
- Collections
- Pivot tables
- Settings
- Sync logs
Uninstall it and everything is removed cleanly.
No leftover debris.
The Bottom Line
Cartly lets you design your storefront in ExpressionEngine while Shopify handles the heavy lifting of commerce.
You stay in control of:
- Templates
- Layout
- Branding
- Content structure
Shopify stays in control of:
- Checkout
- Inventory
- Orders
- Payments
That’s the balance you’ve been wanting.
Backed by tripleNERDscore
Built by a team that lives in ExpressionEngine daily and understands real-world production environments.
Questions? [email protected]