Install Cartless

Cartless installs like any WordPress plugin and needs one thing from you before it can take money: a Stripe account and a restricted API key, which Settings walks you through in three steps.

Install the plugin

1. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New and search for Cartless.
2. Install and activate it. A Cartless menu appears in the sidebar.
3. Freemius will ask whether you want to share basic site information. You can decline; the plugin behaves identically either way.

Connect Stripe

1. Go to Cartless → Settings. The three-step checklist tells you exactly which permissions the restricted key needs and why — Cartless never asks for your full secret key.
2. Paste the restricted key. Once it is accepted, paste the publishable key.
3. Cartless registers its webhook with Stripe for you and shows the endpoint it created.

Take a test payment

1. Add a product under Cartless → Products: a name, a price, and — if you know it — what it costs you.
2. Create a funnel under Cartless → Funnels. It builds the pages for you.
3. Put [cartless_button funnel="your-funnel"] on any page, or use the Cartless blocks in the editor.
4. Open the checkout with Stripe in test mode and pay with card number 4242 4242 4242 4242, any future expiry, any CVC.

The order appears under Cartless → Orders. You are set up.