Can Zoho Commerce plug into my existing website?

Partly. Zoho Commerce is designed to run as a complete online store with its own site builder, so the usual approach is to run it on a subdomain such as shop.yourdomain.com and link to it from your main site. If you only need to sell a few items or take payments, Zoho Billing payment pages or buy links can sit inside your current site instead.

Zoho Commerce gives you a storefront, catalogue, cart, checkout, payments and order management, linked to Zoho Inventory and Zoho Books. Its pages are hosted by Zoho. You can connect your own domain or subdomain and match the design to your main site, so customers move from your site to the shop without a jarring change.

Embedding a full Zoho Commerce cart inside a website built on another platform is not the main use case. Zoho Commerce does offer APIs, so a developer can pull products or create orders from another front end, but that is a custom project. Check the current API scope before planning it.

For simple needs, such as selling a handful of services, taking deposits or offering subscriptions, Zoho Billing or Zoho Checkout payment pages and links are easier to place on an existing site. Decide based on catalogue size, how much stock control you need, and whether you want one platform or two.

Written by Flowpeak, a Zoho implementation partner. Zoho pricing and features change, so confirm current details on the official Zoho site. Free checklists | Ask us a question