Self-hosted commerce
It runs on your server. No monthly fee, no cut of your sales, nobody reading your customers’ data. And four things you cannot buy from Shopify at any price.
Yours, on your server. One command with Docker, then a six-step wizard.
Not with a plugin, not with a paid tier, not in 2026. Each one is in the code today — and the proof is written underneath it.
Your catalogue speaks the agents' protocol: they search it and recommend with real price and stock, and the buy link always points at your site.
3 herramientas: buscar_productos, ver_producto, informacion_tienda
Enforceable from 2 August 2026. Fines up to €15M or 3% of worldwide turnover. Notice in three languages, machine-readable header, and a record of having shown it — without storing a single personal datum.
Modelo soporte_aviso_ia · cabecera X-AI-Generated · minimización RGPD 5.1.c
A theme is a website that talks to the store over HTTP. Eight stacks supported. The others tie you to their template language.
Tabla STACKS: next, astro, nuxt, sveltekit, remix, vite-react, vue, eleventy
Eight providers, including one that runs on your own machine at zero cost. The key never leaves your server, and the daily cap is in euros — not in requests, because a request has no fixed price.
8 proveedores · tope diario configurable (5 € por defecto) · 18 modelos tarifados
Nobody starts from zero. You are on Shopify or WooCommerce, you have a catalogue that works and, above all, you have positions on Google that took years. Changing platform is not a technical decision: it is deciding whether you are willing to lose that.
More than half of platform moves lose Google traffic, and almost always for the same reason: old URLs that stop existing without saying where they went. So we don't ask you to export anything: you connect your shop with read-only keys and it comes across on its own — catalogue, customers, SEO titles and the order history a CSV cannot carry.
How the move actually goesRead-only keys and it fetches the lot: catalogue, customers, orders, coupons, reviews and blog posts. No file to generate, nothing that comes out half-finished.
It brings twenty of each thing so you can see how your catalogue looks here. If you don't like it, one button undoes it — and tells you what it couldn't undo.
In nginx, Apache, JSON and CSV, downloadable before you import anything — because you need it before you touch the DNS. Your SEO titles come across too.
Days pass between migrating and switching DNS, and your old shop keeps selling. Run it again and only the new arrives. Nothing duplicates: not products, not customers, not history.
Every comparison table on the internet is written by the winner. This one ends with a section called what we do not have yet, because you are going to find that out on day one anyway — and it is cheaper for both of us if you find it out now.
Four things you cannot get from Shopify, WooCommerce or PrestaShop today — not with a plugin, not with a paid tier.
| Feature | Shopify | WooCommerce | PrestaShop | pcreative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sells through ChatGPT and Claude, checkout stays yoursYour catalogue speaks the agents' protocol: they search it and recommend with real price and stock, and the buy link always points at your site. | Not available | Not available | Not available | Built in |
| EU AI Act Article 50 compliance built inEnforceable from 2 August 2026. Fines up to €15M or 3% of worldwide turnover. Notice in three languages, machine-readable header, and a record of having shown it — without storing a single personal datum. | Not available | Not available | Not available | Built in |
| Themes in the stack of your choiceA theme is a website that talks to the store over HTTP. Eight stacks supported. The others tie you to their template language. | Not available | Not available | Not available | Built in |
| AI with your own key and a spending capEight providers, including one that runs on your own machine at zero cost. The key never leaves your server, and the daily cap is in euros — not in requests, because a request has no fixed price. | Not available | Not available | Not available | Built in |
Others can do it — with plugins, with add-ons, or not at all in Spain.
| Feature | Shopify | WooCommerce | PrestaShop | pcreative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moving in from Shopify or WooCommerceEveryone imports a CSV. Here you connect the shop with read-only keys and it fetches the lot on its own — catalogue, customers, SEO titles, coupons, reviews, blog posts and the order history a CSV cannot carry. Orders come in as history: they move no stock, charge nothing and send no email. And you get what nobody hands you: one permanent redirect per old URL, in nginx, Apache, JSON and CSV, downloadable before you import anything, because you need it before you touch the DNS. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in |
| Customer consent survives the moveCustomers come over with their addresses, and only whoever said yes explicitly in the file arrives subscribed — blank, odd or missing is a no. If the same address appears twice and one row says yes and the other no, the no wins. What the file said is stored alongside, with the row it came from: a yes you cannot trace is worth nothing if anyone ever asks. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in |
| Card-free payments out of the boxThe five big card gateways are here too (Stripe, Adyen, Mollie, MONEI, PayPal). What is unusual is the rest: bank transfer, cash on delivery, Bizum and crypto on your own server. For sectors where the big gateways close accounts without warning, that is not a checkbox — it is being able to exist. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in |
| Spanish tax invoicingInvoice series, issuer and customer tax IDs, and VAT broken out of a VAT-inclusive price — which is how Spanish retail actually prices. Attached to the confirmation email automatically. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in | Built in |
| Barcode stock controlGoods in, goods out, full stocktake with differences, and binding a new barcode to a product without losing the scan. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in |
| Abandoned cart recoveryDetection, email and recovery rate are there; the automatic trigger is not — today it is sent by hand. | Built in | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on |
| No commission per saleShopify charges a monthly fee AND a cut of every sale if you do not use their gateway. WooCommerce and PrestaShop do not charge commission either — this one is about Shopify. | Not available | Built in | Built in | Built in |
Table stakes. Nothing here is a reason to switch on its own.
| Feature | Shopify | WooCommerce | PrestaShop | pcreative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admin panel | Built in | Built in | Built in | Built in |
| Theme catalogue | Built in | Built in | Built in | Built in |
| Customise a theme without codeThe form is generated from what each theme declares, so it works the same whichever stack the theme is written in. Your settings live apart from the theme: updating it never overwrites them. | Built in | Built in | Built in | Built in |
| Visual page editorDrag and drop over the real storefront, with desktop/tablet/mobile preview — home page only for now. | Built in | Built in | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on |
| Plugin APIA published list rather than open hooks: 9 events, 6 filters, 5 panel slots. What is on the list is a promise; removing it takes a major version. | Built in | Built in | Built in | Built in |
| Blog and content | Built in | Built in | Built in | Built in |
| Several stores from one panel | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in | Built in |
| Multi-currency | Built in | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in | Partial, or needs an add-on |
| Multi-language storefrontTwelve storefront sections translated, catalogue translated from the panel with your AI, and the main language keeps clean URLs. Until recently this row said «no»: it was in the list of what was missing. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in | Built in |
Ordered by how much it hurts. You are going to find this out on day one anyway — better here than after you have paid.
| Feature | Shopify | WooCommerce | PrestaShop | pcreative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five-minute install on shared hostingThis needs a server with Docker. One command brings up the whole thing and a six-step wizard finishes the job — but it is not uploading a folder by FTP, and it never will be. | Built in | Built in | Built in | Not available |
| Extension marketplaceThe plugin contract exists and is tested. The shop to install them from does not. | Built in | Built in | Built in | Not available |
| Subscriptions and point of sale | Built in | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on | Not available |
| Supplier cost and marginsUnder construction. Nobody in this table has it, and it is where the back office gets genuinely useful — real supplier cost, margin against recommended retail price. | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Managed hosting | Built in | Not available | Partial, or needs an add-on | Not available |
WooCommerce installs in five minutes on any shared hosting because PHP is already running there. This is not that. It needs a machine with Docker — a €5 VPS is enough to start.
What we can promise is that from there it is one command, and then a wizard that shows you the real log instead of a fake progress bar, and puts a button to fix it next to each error instead of a code and a link to a forum.
How installing actually goesThe whole thing, one command
$ docker compose -f docker-compose.full.yml up -d31 pages, written next to the code and versioned with it. If the product could not back up this page, the docs would give it away immediately.