# Block Cart Product Features

Block Cart turns your Notion workspace into a complete ecommerce system—syncing your data to a live storefront with no second platform to manage.

## How Block-Cart Works

Products

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Storefront UI

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Orders & Customers

## Notion as Your Storefront

Manage products, customers, and orders inside the workspace you already use. Your store syncs every hour.

- Products in Notion → auto-synced
- Customers + orders tracked in real time
- Structured Notion databases become your CMS

## A visual storefront builder — no coding required

Customize layouts, product cards, collections, and detail pages using a drag-and-drop builder.

- Live preview updates
- Theme controls (colors, spacing, grid)
- Mobile-friendly layouts

## Headless API for full control

Use Block Cart as the backend and build any frontend — React, Next.js, Svelte, mobile, anything.

- REST API for products, customers, orders
- Idempotent order creation
- Fast CDN-cached product catalog
- Multi-store support for agencies

## How Block Cart fits into your stack

Block Cart exists for creators who already run their systems in Notion.

| Feature                | Shopify                    | Gumroad                    | Block Cart                          |
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| Data model             | Custom admin + theme files | Hosted product list with no CMS | Notion-native database as your CMS  |
| Where you work         | Separate dashboard and workflows | Simple dashboard for quick launches | Lives inside your Notion workspace  |
| Customization          | Highly customizable themes, dev-heavy | Limited customization   | Visual builder + headless API       |
| Ownership              | Platform-hosted data      | Platform-hosted files + customers | Your data lives in your Notion workspace |
| Best for               | Retail brands scaling operations | Simple digital product sellers | Creators who think in systems       |

## Build your store on your terms

Your data. Your workflow. Your storefront.