CS-Cart REST API

Name: CS-Cart REST API API
Brand: CS-Cart REST API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentE CommerceStorefrontbasic8 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Read products, orders, users, and categories from a CS-Cart store through a small set of REST endpoints under /api/2.0.

Quickstart

Get started with CS-Cart REST API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"list CS-Cart products"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with CS-Cart REST API API.

List the products on a CS-Cart storefront with pagination and basic filtering

Retrieve a single product by its ID with full attribute payload

List orders placed against the store, useful for reporting pipelines

Look up customer users on the store to attach orders to CRM records

GET STARTED

Start building with CS-Cart REST API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for CS-Cart REST API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for CS-Cart REST API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. This is a slimmer slice of the CS-Cart REST surface focused on read-heavy access to products, orders, users, and categories under the /api/2.0 base path. The eight catalogued endpoints suit reporting, lightweight catalogue browsing, and read-mostly automations rather than full storefront management.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use CS-Cart REST API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Catalogue Export for Search Indexing

Export every product on a CS-Cart storefront into an external search index like Algolia or Elasticsearch. The agent pages through GET /products and pushes each record into the index, refreshing the index on a schedule. Because this slice is read-mostly, it suits unattended nightly jobs that should not have write capability.

Page through GET /products with limit=100 and push each item into the search index, persisting the last seen page cursor.

Reporting Pipeline

Pull orders into a data warehouse for finance and operations reporting. The agent calls GET /orders on a schedule, transforms each record, and writes it to BigQuery, Snowflake, or Postgres. Because the surface is small, the integration is easy to lock down with a dedicated read-only API key without exposing write endpoints.

Call GET /orders with a date filter for yesterday and write the resulting rows into the warehouse staging table.

CRM Customer Enrichment

Enrich CRM contacts with their CS-Cart purchase history. The agent looks up customers by email through the users endpoint, then fetches their orders and computes lifetime value or last-order-date attributes. This keeps the CRM aligned with what the storefront knows without granting write access.

Call GET /users with an email filter, then GET /orders with the matching user_id, and compute lifetime value for the CRM record.

AI Agent Read-Only Catalogue Access

An AI agent answering customer or merchandiser questions about catalogue and order state can use this slim slice without ever needing write privileges. Through Jentic the agent searches for the right read operation, loads its schema, and executes against credentials in the vault. The minimal surface area limits blast radius if a prompt injection coerces the agent into unintended calls.

Search Jentic for 'list CS-Cart products' and execute GET /products with a category filter to answer a merchandiser's question.

Key Endpoints

8 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for cs-cart rest api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/products

List products in the catalogue

GET

/products/{id}

Retrieve a single product

GET

/orders

List orders for reporting

GET

/users

List users and customers

GET

/categories

List storefront categories

GET

/products

List products in the catalogue

GET

/products/{id}

Retrieve a single product

GET

/orders

List orders for reporting

GET

/users

List users and customers

GET

/categories

List storefront categories

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

CS-Cart admin email, API key, and store domain are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem). Agents receive scoped access tokens and never see the raw Basic auth pair, so a leaked agent transcript cannot expose write privileges.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (for example 'list CS-Cart products' or 'export CS-Cart orders') and Jentic returns the matching read operation with its input schema.

Time to first call

Direct CS-Cart REST integration: 1 day for Basic auth, store domain templating, and pagination handling. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Shopify API

Hosted e-commerce platform with managed REST and GraphQL admin APIs

Choose Shopify when the merchant prefers a hosted platform rather than a self-hosted CS-Cart store.

Alternative

Magento API

Open-source e-commerce platform with a similarly broad REST surface

Choose Magento when the workload needs richer B2B features and the team is comfortable operating a heavier stack.

Complementary

CS-Cart API

The full CS-Cart 2.0 REST surface with write operations across 57 endpoints

Use the main CS-Cart API alongside this slice when the agent needs to write back to the store as well as read from it.

FAQs

Specific to using CS-Cart REST API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for CS-Cart REST API?

CS-Cart does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call CS-Cart REST API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the CS-Cart REST API use?

This slice uses HTTP Basic authentication with the admin email as username and a generated API key as password, against the store's own domain at /api/2.0. Through Jentic the credentials and store domain are stored in the vault.

Can I create products with this CS-Cart REST API slice?

This catalogued slice is read-mostly and exposes GET endpoints for products, orders, users, and categories. For write operations, use the broader CS-Cart API (api_slug: main) which exposes POST and PUT across the same resources.

What are the rate limits for the CS-Cart REST API?

CS-Cart does not publish an application-level request rate limit; throughput is governed by the host's PHP-FPM and database capacity. Spread bulk reads across off-peak windows and use limit and page parameters on /products and /orders.

How do I list orders for reporting through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'list CS-Cart orders' and execute the loaded GET /orders operation with date filters. Jentic supplies the Basic credentials and store domain from the vault and returns the rows for downstream warehouse loading.

Is the CS-Cart REST API free?

The REST API is included with every CS-Cart license; there is no per-call fee. License pricing is published at https://www.cs-cart.com/buy-license.html.

How do I page through products?

Pass page and items_per_page (or limit) query parameters to GET /products and increment until the response returns fewer items than the page size. CS-Cart returns the total count in the response so progress can be tracked deterministically.