We’ve opened up the Freewebstore Store API to every plan, including the free Community plan.
Until now, API access was reserved for our top tier. That’s changed. Whether you’re on Community, StartUp, Pro, or Ridge, you can now generate an API key and connect your store directly to other systems. No upgrade required to get started.
What an API actually lets you do
The API is a way for code — yours, a developer’s, or an app you use — to read and update your store directly, without anyone clicking around the control panel. In practice that means you can:
- Sync stock with your warehouse or supplier, so what’s on your shelves matches what’s on your store.
- Push new orders straight to a dropshipper or fulfilment service the moment they come in.
- Connect your store to the tools you already use — accounting, email marketing, spreadsheets, a custom dashboard.
- Automate the repetitive stuff — bulk price changes, low-stock alerts, daily sales summaries.
- Build your own app on top of your store data.
You get programmatic access to your products, categories, orders, customers, pages, brands, reviews, gift cards, store settings, and analytics. The possibilities really are endless — and that’s not marketing fluff, it’s just what an open API is.
What’s available on your plan
The API works the same way on every plan. The difference is how many requests you can make per day — higher plans get more headroom for busier stores and heavier integrations:
| Plan | Requests per day (per store) |
|---|---|
| Community (free) | 5,000 |
| StartUp | 25,000 |
| Pro | 100,000 |
| Ridge | 250,000 |
For most stores, 5,000 requests a day is plenty to keep stock and orders in sync. This daily limit applies to your whole store and is shared across all of your API keys, so creating extra keys won’t give you more headroom. If you’re running a high-volume integration or building something ambitious, that’s a good reason to move up a plan.
How to get your API key
- Log in to your control panel.
- Open the API page (you’ll find it in the footer navigation).
- Click Request an API Key.
That’s it. You can give each key a name and a short note about what it’s for, so they’re easy to tell apart. Your key appears straight away, and you can start making requests immediately. Need to revoke a key or issue another one? You can do both from the same page — each store can hold up to 10 keys, and you can see how many requests each key has made and when it was last used.
Full documentation — every endpoint, parameters, and example code — lives at api.freewebstore.com.
A note on premium features
A handful of API actions match features that are part of a paid plan. For example, creating discount codes needs StartUp or above, and the deeper analytics endpoints need a paid plan — the same as in the control panel. If you call one of those on a plan that doesn’t include it, the API tells you exactly which plan you need. Everything else — managing products, orders, customers, and pages — works on every plan, free included.
Using AI assistants with your store
If you use an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT, you can connect it directly to your store through our hosted integration at api.freewebstore.com/mcp. Once it’s connected, you can ask it to do real work — “show me everything low on stock”, “mark these orders as dispatched”, “add this product” — and it talks to your store through the same API, securely. No local setup required.
Third-party apps can also request access to your store on your behalf through a standard, consent-based sign-in, so you stay in control of what they can see and do.
Start building
Your store has always held your data. Now you can do more with it, on whatever plan you’re on.
Head to the API page in your control panel, request a key, and take a look at the docs at api.freewebstore.com. We can’t wait to see what you connect.
Already building something with the Freewebstore API? We’d love to hear about it — get in touch through your control panel.
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