CubeCart is one of the longer established PHP and MySQL e-commerce products, first released in 2003 and now used by tens of thousands of stores worldwide.
The core has grown steadily, but the CubeCart developers have always kept it deliberately slim rather than trying to be all things to all stores. That is the right call, and it is why third party plugins exist: they let you add exactly the functionality your store needs without carrying everything you do not.
CubeCart 5 introduced code hooks, which let a developer run their own code at defined points without touching a single core file. That matters more than it sounds. It means you can upgrade CubeCart as soon as a new version is released without a developer having to reapply changes, and it is the reason a well written plugin survives upgrades.
Since 5.2.0 small changes can also be made through Code Snippets using the same hooks, without writing a full plugin at all. If what you need is genuinely small, ask us before buying anything.
These are our own plugins, written and supported by Havenswift Hosting. Prices are shown in our client area, which is where the buy links go. If you host your CubeCart store with us, support for these is included.
| Plugin | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
| Attached Documents | Attach documents such as datasheets, certificates or manuals to customers, orders and manufacturers. | Buy |
| Category Product Options | Show product options on the category listing page, so customers can choose a size or colour without opening the product. | Buy |
| Checkout Improvements | A set of practical checkout changes: a “how did you hear about us” field, and the ability to hide the shipping dropdown, the standard checkout button or the coupon box. | Buy |
| Cloudflare | Control Cloudflare from inside the CubeCart admin. Purge the whole cache or single files, switch on Development Mode or Under Attack mode, and purge a page automatically when you save a product, category or document. Advanced screens reach every zone setting and DNS record. | Buy |
| Compress Store Images via TinyPNG | Compress JPEG and PNG images automatically through the TinyPNG API, in bulk across the existing catalogue and on new uploads. | Buy |
| Customer Account Number Lookup | Look a customer up by account number rather than by username, for stores that trade on account. | Buy |
| Drop Shipping | A full supplier and dropshipping manager: CSV or REST supplier feeds, one-click product import with SKU matching, live inventory sync, margin pricing, automatic order routing to the supplier and tracking numbers synced back to the customer. | Buy |
| Duplicate Order Emails | Send a copy or blind copy of any store email to another address, so accounts, the warehouse or a manager get what they need. | Buy |
| Enhanced Admin Order Entry | Makes manual order entry usable: create a customer mid-order, search existing customers on far more criteria, and calculate correct tax and shipping from the address entered. Adds printable proforma invoice, packing list and invoice templates. | Buy |
| Enhanced Manufacturers | Display manufacturers in a dropdown, a list or both, choose which appear where, and give each manufacturer its own page listing their products. | Buy |
| Enhanced Sorting | More control over how products are sorted, both in the storefront listings and in the admin. | Buy |
| Google Merchant Centre Feed | Generate a Google Merchant Center product feed from your catalogue, ready for Google Shopping. | Buy |
| Structured Data & SEO Markup | Replaces the skin’s schema.org markup with a complete JSON-LD graph: full Product and Offer coverage, variants, shipping and returns, plus the Open Graph product tags CubeCart omits. No skin edits needed. | Buy |
| Group Site Documents | Group site documents and place the links where your skin needs them, rather than in one fixed list. | Buy |
| Skin Configuration | Configure our skins from the admin instead of editing template files, so your customisations survive a skin upgrade. Included free with every skin we supply. | Buy |
| Multiple Category Documents | Assign more than one document to a category. | Buy |
| Multiple Homepage Documents | Show several documents on the homepage in addition to the designated homepage document, positioned where you want them. | Buy |
| Product Image Rollover | Show a second image when the mouse hovers over a product, useful for front and back views. Also adds multi-image upload with ordering. | Buy |
| Store Messages | Add informative messages to the storefront without editing the skin. | Buy |
| Vertical Menu | A vertical category menu for skins that suit one. | Buy |
| Wishlist & Giftlist Registry | Guest wishlists that survive as cookies and merge on login, one-click AJAX adding with variations, multiple named lists, shareable and collaborative registries with purchased-item tracking, and price-drop email alerts. | Buy |
| WordPress API to Smarty | Pulls content from a WordPress site through its API and exposes it to your CubeCart skin as Smarty objects. | Buy |
| Adrecord Affiliate Module | Integration with the Adrecord affiliate network. Free. | Buy |
| CubeCart Plugin Installation | Not a plugin: our installation service, if you would rather we installed and configured one for you. | Buy |
Tell us what you are trying to achieve rather than which plugin you think you want. Fairly often the answer is a setting you already have, a small code snippet, or nothing at all, and we would rather say so than sell you something.
We also write custom plugins. If you need CubeCart to do something no existing plugin covers, that is a conversation worth having.
See also our CubeCart skins, and our CubeCart hosting plans.