🛒 Sonicstore: Your Own Online Store. Your Brand. Your Hosting. Your Sales.

Sonicstore is a complete, white-label online store you install on ordinary shared hosting in minutes. Sell products, take card payments through Stripe, manage orders, send newsletters, run a point-of-sale, and watch your traffic, all from one clean admin panel. No Composer. No build tools. No per-sale platform cut. No third-party subscriptions needed for newsletters or analytics.

Your store name, logo, colors, fonts, favicon and SEO details are all set from the admin. Nothing in the code is tied to a brand, so one package can power any number of stores.

⚡ Why Store Owners Choose Sonicstore

• ✅ You own everything. Your store, your customers, your data, on your own server.
• ✅ Runs on cheap shared / cPanel hosting. Vanilla PHP 8+ and MySQL/MariaDB. No special server needed.
• ✅ No card numbers ever touch your server. Payments run through Stripe's secure hosted pages and fields. Sonicstore never receives, logs or stores card data.
• ✅ No platform commission. Stripe's normal processing fee is the only cut taken from your sales.
• ✅ Fully white-label. Sell under your own brand, or install it for your clients.
• ✅ Safe one-click updates from inside the admin, with automatic backup and automatic rollback.

🛍️ A Storefront Customers Love to Use

• 🖼️ Beautiful shop grid with category browsing, search, sorting and pagination
• 🔍 Product pages with a gallery, click-to-zoom full-screen view and hover magnifier on desktop
• 🎛️ Live variation picker. Size and color selectors update price and availability instantly
• 🔗 Related products and a homepage that showcases your featured items
• 🕘 Recently Viewed row so shoppers can find their way back
• ⭐ Verified-buyer reviews with photos. You approve each review before it goes live
• 📱 Built for phones. Pill-style filters, two products per row, a working hamburger menu
• 🚀 Fast images. Small cached WebP copies are served at the right size for each screen
• 👤 Guest checkout or customer accounts. Shoppers are never forced to register
• 📦 Guest order tracking with an order number and email, plus a bookmarkable status link

🏠 A Homepage You Control, No Code Required

• 🎞️ Hero carousel with banner images, headings, optional buttons and links to a product, a category or any URL. Drag to reorder, with an optional animated glow
• 🛡️ Trust strip with four short promises under the hero (free shipping, easy returns and so on)
• 🧩 Category tiles with your own picture for each tile
• 🖼️ Scrolling gallery with captions and links, which pauses on hover and respects reduced-motion settings
• ✍️ Intro text block with a visual editor
• 🔗 Editable footer. Tagline, copyright, Instagram / Facebook / TikTok / X links and a custom link

📦 Powerful Product Management

• 🏷️ Simple and variable products. Create attributes like Size and Color, generate every combination in one click, then set price, SKU and stock per variation
• 💲 Sale prices with optional start and end dates
• 📸 Main image plus a drag-to-reorder gallery
• 📝 Draft / Published / Archived status, Visible / Hidden visibility and a Featured flag. Archiving never deletes your order history
• 🗂️ Categories and sub-categories with images and manual ordering
• ⚙️ Bulk actions. Publish, unpublish, archive or assign a category to many products at once
• 📋 Duplicate products, search, filter by status, category or stock, and sort by any column
• 🔁 Attribute presets. Save reusable Size and Color sets and quick-add them to any product
• 📉 Low-stock list on your dashboard, with a threshold you set for each product
• 👕 Apparel Library for shirt and print shops. Set up each style once, with brands, colors, sizes, per-size pricing and ONE shared stock count that updates across every product using it
• 🔗 Link shirts to transfers with "Available Shirt" buttons that connect related products both ways
• 🖨️ Customer print-image upload at checkout, with friendly warnings about resolution, format and transparency instead of hard blocks
• 🛡️ Image protection and watermarks. Block right-click and drag-saving, and stamp your text or logo watermark on full-screen product pictures. Originals are never changed

💳 Checkout and Payments You Can Trust

• 💳 Stripe Checkout with the hosted payment page. Cards, wallets and more, depending on your Stripe account
• 🔒 Payment confirmed only by verified webhooks. An order is never marked paid just because a browser landed on a thank-you page
• 📉 No overselling. Stock is reserved with database row locking the moment checkout starts, and tested under real simultaneous load
• 🧮 Live checkout totals. Tax, shipping and the total show as soon as the customer picks a state and shipping method
• 🏦 Delayed payments supported (such as bank debits). Stock stays held until the money clears
• 🛒 Smart cart. It survives return visits and is re-checked against live stock and product status every time it is viewed
• 🔙 Refunds with an exact-amount confirmation and your choice to restock or not. Full and partial refunds are tracked

🎟️ Coupons That Drive Sales

• 💸 Percent-off or fixed-amount discounts
• 🎯 Limit a coupon to certain products or categories
• 📅 Set a date window, a total usage limit and a minimum order amount
• 👤 Uses per customer. Set 1 for a first-order welcome code
• ✅ A usage is counted only after payment is confirmed, so abandoned checkouts never burn a code

🚚 Shipping and Tax, Fully Under Your Control

• 🌎 Shipping zones by country and state
• 📮 Flat-rate, free-over-a-threshold and local-pickup methods
• 🧾 Manual tax rates by state, with a simple on/off mode
• 🗺️ A state dropdown at checkout that always matches your tax and shipping rules

📋 Order Management Made Easy

• 🚨 "Orders to ship" panel. Paid orders waiting to go out, oldest first, with NEW tags and plain-English status
• 🔎 Searchable, filterable orders by payment status and fulfillment status
• 📬 Order status workflow. Pending, Processing and Shipped, with a tracking number and an automatic email to the customer at each step
• 🗒️ Internal notes on every order, which you can mark customer-visible
• 📈 Sales summary boxes and a Paid vs Pending chart by day, week, month or year
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Customer list with order counts and lifetime value, plus full order history for each customer
• ✉️ Automatic emails. A receipt to the customer and a "new order" alert to you

🧾 Built-In Point of Sale, Quotes and Invoices

• 🏪 Sell in person or by phone from the admin. Search or add a customer, ring up catalog or custom items, and add a discount and sales tax
• 💳 Take a card through Stripe's secure field (the card number goes straight from the browser to Stripe), or record cash, check or other payments
• 📄 Send professional invoices with your logo, item thumbnails, totals and a Pay Now button
• 💬 Send quotes with a valid-until date. The customer clicks Accept & Pay and the quote becomes an invoice
• 🔁 Resend, convert, mark paid or cancel from the order page, and print invoices from any order
• 🆕 New customers get an account automatically with a secure set-your-password link

📧 Marketing Tools Included. No Extra Subscriptions.

• 📰 Built-in newsletter. There is no Mailchimp bill. Visitors subscribe from your homepage, and every email carries a one-click unsubscribe
• 🧱 Block-based email composer. Drag text, product, image, button and divider blocks. Product blocks always show the current price and link
• 👀 Live preview and test sends before you send to everyone
• ⏰ Send now or schedule for a date and time. Big lists are sent in safe batches, and nobody gets the same email twice
• 📊 Open and click tracking for your campaigns
• 🛒 Abandoned-cart recovery emails. Two automatic reminders, one for shoppers who started checkout and one for signed-in customers who left items in their cart, each sent once with a "Finish Checking Out" button
• 📣 Share buttons with click tracking on products

📊 Self-Hosted Traffic Analytics

• 🟢 Live now. See who is on your site this minute, what page they are viewing, where they came from and what device they use
• 📅 Today, 7 days, 30 days, 12 months and All time views of visitors, visits, page views, orders, revenue and conversion rate, each compared with the previous period
• 🧭 Traffic sources (direct, search, social, email, paid, referral), top pages, a shopping funnel, devices and countries (when behind Cloudflare)
• 🔐 Privacy-friendly. No third-party scripts and no IP addresses stored. Crawlers and bots are not counted, and your own visits are ignored

🔍 SEO Built In

• 🌐 Canonical URLs, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags on every page
• 🏷️ Product structured data with price and availability, plus sitewide Organization data
• 🗺️ A live sitemap.xml generated from your products, categories and pages, plus a sensible robots.txt
• ✔️ Google Search Console and Bing verification, GA4, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel fields
• 🔖 Custom favicon, title suffix, default description and default social-share image
• 🚧 A "discourage search engines" switch while you build

🎨 Total White-Label Branding

• 🎨 Seven-color palette with live preview. It drives the storefront, the admin, the login page and every email
• 🔤 Google Fonts for headings, body and menus, or the system font to load none
• ⬜ Corner style. Choose sharp, rounded or very rounded
• 🧩 One-click presets, a low-contrast warning and Reset to defaults
• 🔢 Your own order-number prefix

📄 Pages and Content

• 📝 Editable pages such as About, FAQ and Contact, with Visual, HTML code and Preview tabs. Paste ready-made HTML and it is saved exactly as you pasted it
• ⚖️ Shipping, Returns and Privacy Policy pages are pre-created and linked in your footer

👥 Team, Roles and Security

• 🧑‍💼 Employee role with per-section permissions. Give staff only the screens they need (orders, POS, products and more)
• 🔑 Staff sign in from the normal storefront login and land in the admin with only their allowed sections
• 🚫 Sign-up spam protection. Email verification, a hidden bot trap, automatic flagging and deletion of unverified accounts, disposable-email blocking, rate limiting and automatic IP bans, with a summary email to you
• 🔐 Hardened by design. CSRF-protected forms, rate-limited logins, signed cookies, and a package-upload system that can never overwrite your config or storage
• 👤 My Account. Every admin and employee can update their own name, email and password

🔄 Easy Install, Safe Updates, Room to Grow

• ⏱️ Guided web installer. Enter your database, store name and admin account, and your store is live. The setup files then delete themselves
• 🛟 Self-updating from the admin. Upload a package, review the release notes, click Install. Sonicstore backs up the files it is about to replace and your database, enters a brief maintenance window, installs, migrates and reopens. If anything fails, it restores everything automatically.
• 🔌 Plugin system. Add-ons install from Admin > Plugins and sit inactive until you activate them, with an "Available plugins" list so you always know what you have
• 🧰 No Composer, no Node, no build step. Upload and go
• ⏲️ Simple cron endpoints for cleanup, abandoned-cart emails and newsletter sending, with the exact URLs shown in your settings

🖥️ Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or newer
• MySQL or MariaDB
• A free or paid Stripe account for card payments
• Any ordinary shared, cPanel, VPS or dedicated host. Optional: GD with FreeType for text watermarks

🎁 What You Get

• 📦 The complete Sonicstore package, ready to install
• 📖 A full written guide for setup, Stripe, cron jobs, tax, shipping and order emails
• 🔄 Update packages you can install from your own admin panel

🚀 Ready to Own Your Store?

Stop renting your business from a platform that takes a cut of every sale. Install Sonicstore, make it yours, and start selling today. Built by SonicServe.

👉 Get Sonicstore now and launch your store this week.