WordPress has become the standard for building a website - but its usual answer for selling anything is WooCommerce, a heavyweight, plugin-hungry platform built mainly for shipping boxes. If what you actually sell is streaming video, digital access, or a mix of physical and digital products, you're bending a shipping cart into shapes it was never designed for.
BARANT Shopping Cart is a self-contained WordPress plugin built from the ground up for exactly that mix. It runs today in production on westcoastwingchun.com, handling pay-per-view and rental video streaming, physical merchandise with shipping calculation, and rank-gated class content - all through Square, with no WooCommerce required.
- Streaming video access - sell unlimited access, a timed rental window, or a one-time purchase for any video, with signed, time-limited playback links so a purchased video can't be shared as a plain URL.
- Physical goods too - the same cart handles shippable merchandise alongside digital items, with weight/dimension-based shipping-rate lookups built in.
- Rank-gated content - restrict a catalog of videos to logged-in users whose account has been assigned a specific access tier, useful for membership or class-based content of any kind, not just video.
- Square payments - card payments through Square's Web Payments SDK, with a sandbox/production toggle and a built-in connection test so you can verify credentials before ever taking a live payment.
- A real admin section - Dashboard, Inventory, Orders, Settings and Payment Gateway screens, all inside WordPress's own admin UI. No database edits required to configure or run the store.
- Its own data model - cart, inventory, and order data live in the plugin's own tables, independent of WooCommerce or any other e-commerce plugin you may already have installed.
The best proof of a shopping cart plugin is a real store using it. Visit westcoastwingchun.com to see BARANT Shopping Cart handling real video-streaming sales, rentals, and physical merchandise checkout end to end.
BARANT Shopping Cart is headed for the official WordPress Plugin Directory. In the meantime, if you'd like early access, help installing it on your own site, or custom feature work, get in touch - BARANT Technology Group can also handle hosting and setup for you directly.