SHSelfHostIndex
CA

Cartridge

Django shopping cart for the Mezzanine CMS

E-commerce Platforms ★ 710 stars Medium setup BSD-2-Clause

Cartridge is a lightweight, open-source shopping cart application built on the Mezzanine CMS for Django. It adds e-commerce capabilities such as products, orders, and discounts to a content site.

Official siteSource code

Key features

  • Integrates with Mezzanine CMS
  • Product variations and discounts
  • Lightweight footprint
  • Django admin management

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Simple and minimal
  • Good for content-driven shops

Trade-offs

  • Limited active maintenance
  • Niche ecosystem

Is Cartridge secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Cartridge's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Cartridge replaces

Self-hosted Shopify alternativesSelf-hosted WooCommerce alternatives

Health badge

Maintain Cartridge? Add its health score to your README. The badge links back to this page.

SelfHostIndex: 12 · at risk

Markdown
[![SelfHostIndex health score for Cartridge](https://selfhostindex.com/badge/cartridge.svg)](https://selfhostindex.com/app/cartridge/)
HTML
<a href="https://selfhostindex.com/app/cartridge/"><img src="https://selfhostindex.com/badge/cartridge.svg" alt="SelfHostIndex health score for Cartridge"></a>
reStructuredText
.. image:: https://selfhostindex.com/badge/cartridge.svg
   :alt: SelfHostIndex health score for Cartridge
   :target: https://selfhostindex.com/app/cartridge/

The score is recomputed on every nightly rebuild from public repository data — see how it is calculated.

Compare Cartridge

5 head-to-head comparisons.

Similar e-commerce platforms apps