Vendwick is a commerce plugin for EmDash CMS. You can sell plugins, themes, downloads, services and events with it. It takes the payment, issues license keys for software and delivers every update, all on Cloudflare Workers with D1 and R2.
Or $59 per year. Version 0.1.0 is out, and theinstall guide covers setup.
Your checkout page works out the plan, coupon and tax before the buyer pays. The buyer then continues to the payment gateway you connected.
Every sale can come with a license key, and Vendwick runs the license server too. Each key knows which sites it’s active on and how many it’s allowed.
You publish a release once and licensed sites get it. In the admin, you upload a build, check the version and hash, then publish. How the release reaches the buyer depends on what you sell.
Buyers download signed ZIP files from their account. Installed copies see new versions in the WordPress dashboard through a drop-in PHP updater you ship with the product.
your-plugin.php
require_once __DIR__ . '/includes/class-vendwick-updater.php';
vendwick_updater( array(
'store_url' => 'https://store.example.com',
'item_slug' => 'acme-forms',
'file' => __FILE__,
'version' => '1.5.0',
) );Vendwick serves a private, npm-compatible registry from your store. Buyers point their project at it, use their license key as the token and install with pnpm.
.npmrc
@acme:registry=https://store.example.com/_vendwick/npm/
//store.example.com/_vendwick/npm/:_authToken=${VENDWICK_LICENSE_KEY}Terminal
pnpm add @acme/forms
pnpm update @acme/forms
Buyers help themselves in the portal. It signs them in with a private link sent to their email, so there are no passwords to store or reset.
Vendwick is a native EmDash plugin, so you run the store from the admin you already use.
Version 0.1.0 is the first release. You download it from your account here after you buy. This is what it does today and where it stops.
This is a first release. Each gateway you use should get a test-mode purchase, renewal and refund before you take money.
There are two ways to buy, and both include unlimited site activations. The buttons go straight to checkout.
$249 one time
One payment, no renewal.
$59 per year
The lower price to start, paid once a year.
The Yearly License costs less up front. If you expect to run the store past 4 years, the Lifetime License costs less overall, because 5 yearly payments come to $295.
After you buy, you download Vendwick 0.1.0 from your account here and follow the install guide. It is wise to read the known limits above before you buy, and the documentation has the rest of the detail.
Yes. Version 0.1.0 is the first release. After you buy, you download it from your account here, and the install guide on vendwick.com walks through setup. Its known limits are listed above.
6 product types: WordPress plugins, WordPress themes, EmDash plugins, digital downloads, services and events. Software and downloads can carry license keys, and services and events sell without them. Physical goods aren't in 0.1.0, which has no shipping, stock or delivery addresses. They're planned, so a store that depends on them should wait.
EmDash is Cloudflare's CMS built on Astro. Vendwick is a native EmDash plugin. It runs on Cloudflare Workers and keeps its data in the D1 database and its files in R2 storage, alongside your site.
Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay and Polar. All 4 handle one-time payments and recurring subscriptions, and you can run them in test mode before going live.
Yes. WordPress plugins and themes are product types. Buyers get signed ZIP downloads, and installed copies update from the WordPress dashboard through a drop-in PHP updater that you ship with your product.
Vendwick serves a private, npm-compatible registry from your store. Buyers add 2 lines to their project's .npmrc, with their license key as the token. They run pnpm add to install and pnpm update when you publish a release.
Both licenses include unlimited site activations. The Yearly License is $59 per year and the Lifetime License is $249 once.
Gaurav Tiwari makes Vendwick. It's a standalone port of the Core Commerce module in Core Forms, his WordPress plugin, rebuilt as a native plugin for EmDash.