An online store that lives inside your own website.
HikaShop is a native e-commerce extension for Joomla and WordPress. You install it into the site you already run, and it adds a full shop: catalog, cart, checkout, payments, shipping, taxes, customers and reporting, all on your own server and all under your control.
In one sentence: HikaShop turns the website you already own into a complete online store, without renting space on someone else's platform.
It is not a hosted service or a separate app to log into. It is software that runs as part of your Joomla or WordPress site, so the shop shares your template, your users, your languages and your SEO instead of starting over somewhere else.
Sell anything you can put a price on.
Physical goods, digital downloads, subscriptions, bookings, even a full multi-vendor marketplace. One catalog model carries a three-item boutique and a thirty-thousand-SKU operation, so you never rebuild as you grow.
A catalog without limits
Categories, characteristics, variants, options, related products and custom fields, organised the way your range is actually shaped.
Digital downloads & files
Sell software, media or documents with secure, limited-access downloads attached to any product or order.
Subscriptions & rentals
Recurring billing, memberships and time-boxed rentals are built into the Business edition, no bolt-on required.
A whole marketplace
HikaMarket adds independent vendors, their own dashboards and commission splits, turning your shop into a marketplace.
Checkout that converts
One-page or stepped, guest or registered, with the fields, terms and payment branching your funnel needs.
Invoices & order docs
Branded PDF invoices, delivery notes and order emails, generated automatically and customisable to the line.
From extension to open shop, in six moves.
There is no platform to sign up for and no data to migrate later. A HikaShop store grows inside your existing site.
Install into your CMS
Add HikaShop to the Joomla or WordPress site you already run. No separate hosting, no second login.
Build the catalog
Create products, variants and categories by hand or import a spreadsheet. Add custom fields wherever you need them.
Set payment, tax & shipping
Connect a gateway, define tax zones and currencies, add carrier or flat-rate shipping. Configure the rules once.
Shape the storefront
Use your own template and override any view, email or checkout step so the shop matches your brand exactly.
Go live
Open the shop on your own domain, with guest or registered checkout that works on every device.
Grow
Layer on coupons, an affiliate program, subscriptions, a marketplace or auctions as the business scales.
Software you own, not a storefront you rent.
The biggest difference between HikaShop and a hosted store builder is where everything lives, and who is in charge of it.
| HikaShop | Hosted store builders | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | On your own Joomla or WordPress server | On the vendor's platform |
| Your data | Yours, on your server, exportable anytime | Held inside their platform |
| Transaction fees | None taken by HikaShop | Often a percentage of every sale |
| What you pay | Free, or one licence per year | Monthly, rising with your sales |
| Customisation | Every view, email and checkout step is overridable | Limited to the theme's options |
| Source code | Open (GPL), yours to read and extend | Closed |
| Lock-in | Move or self-host whenever you like | Leaving means a migration |
From cart to doorstep to repeat customer.
Three areas where HikaShop does the heavy lifting. Each has a page of its own; here is the short version.
Payment
60+ gateways out of the box, from Stripe and PayPal to local methods, with multi-currency and PCI-friendly hosted flows.
Explore payments →Shipping
Live carrier rates from UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS and more, plus weight, price and zone rules you set yourself.
Explore shipping →Marketing
Coupons, discount tiers, an affiliate program, waitlists and email-marketing integrations to bring shoppers back.
Explore marketing →Who builds with HikaShop.
One extension, many kinds of store. The same foundation suits a first boutique and a developer's hundredth client build.
Small businesses & boutiques
Launch a polished shop on a budget, starting free with the Starter edition and upgrading only when you outgrow it.
Agencies & freelancers
Deliver client stores that stay update-safe and fully brandable, with no core fork to maintain later.
Developers
A documented plugin framework, overridable views and an API to build whatever the brief needs. For developers →
Marketplaces
Run many independent vendors under one roof, with seller dashboards and commissions, using HikaMarket.
Digital & subscription sellers
Sell downloads, licence keys, memberships and recurring plans, with delivery and billing handled for you.
International stores
Sell in many languages and currencies with tax zones configured once, then shipped everywhere you support.
One family, when the basics aren't enough.
The add-ons extend the same store rather than replacing it, so nothing is thrown away as your needs grow.
HikaMarket
Turn your shop into a multi-vendor marketplace, with seller dashboards and commissions.
Discover HikaMarket →HikaSerial
Generate and sell serial numbers, licence keys, vouchers and coupon codes automatically.
Discover HikaSerial →HikaAuction
Add live bidding to any product, with proxy bids, reserves and timed closes.
Discover HikaAuction →Where to go next.
See it running, read how it works, or start building today.
Download free →
Get the Starter edition and build your shop today.
Live demo →
Click around a real HikaShop store, front and back office.
Documentation →
Step-by-step guides for every feature.
Compare editions →
Starter, Essential and Business, feature by feature.
For developers →
Plugin framework, API and view overrides.
Read the reviews →
Rated 4.9 by more than 300 shop owners on the Joomla Extensions Directory.