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A lean, self-hosted CMS for people who sell their own thing — any page becomes a product with one shortcode. Your checkout, your data, no marketplace in between.

Built on Symfony, installs with one command, and runs on your own server.

Why Tallyst exists

I needed a CMS with the usual essentials — pages, posts, media — plus one thing I kept failing to find without reaching for a bloated plugin: a form builder wired directly to a payment processor. Something simple, but capable.

Most CMS and e-commerce tools are built for stores — catalogs, inventory, teams. But a lot of us aren't running a store. We're solo developers selling our own software, or small businesses with one product or a handful of services. Do we really need a full e-commerce suite to sell that?

Tallyst is my answer. You build a payment-enabled form, drop [form id=N] into any page, and that page becomes a product. The buyer checks out through your Stripe or PayPal account; the order and customer data live in your database. No marketplace in between, nobody taking a cut, nothing to outgrow a plan.

Key features

• Core CMS — pages, posts, categories, media library, nested menus, a Tiptap content editor.
• Form builder → payment — the signature feature: [form id=N] turns any page into a product, checking out through Stripe or PayPal.
• Orders — order lifecycle with manual fulfilment, refunds, price variants, and inclusive tax + CSV export for your accountant.
• Themes — auto-detected (drop a folder into themes/), with a child-theme parent chain.
• Built in — full-text search, maintenance mode, a deployment-readiness panel, e-mail templates, and a modular architecture (features ship as self-contained bundles).
• Production-grade auth — admin/editor roles, optional TOTP two-factor, password reset, and login throttling — because it handles payments.

Quick start

composer create-project tallyst/cms my-site
cd my-site
php8.5 bin/console app:install

1. create-project downloads Tallyst and silently compiles its front-end assets (via a post-create hook).
2. app:install is an interactive wizard — it validates your database connection, writes .env.local, runs migrations, and creates your admin account. Open /admin and log in.

If your default php is older than 8.5, run Composer through the right binary: php8.5 $(which composer) create-project tallyst/cms my-site

A detailed installation guide (server setup, the background worker for e-mail/orders, going live) is coming in docs/INSTALL.md.

Requirements

• PHP 8.5+
• MySQL or MariaDB
• Composer

What Tallyst is not

Honest boundaries, so you can tell in 30 seconds whether it fits:

• Not a marketplace. It's your site selling your things — not a multi-vendor platform. This is deliberate.
• Not a merchant of record (in v1.0). You connect your own Stripe/PayPal and handle your own tax/VAT. MoR integrations (so a provider handles global tax for you) are planned for a future release.
• No subscriptions or comments yet. Planned as future modules — Tallyst v1.0 is one-time payments.
• Not a full e-commerce suite. By design. If you need catalogs, inventory, and a team workflow, reach for a platform built for that. Tallyst is for selling your own product or services, simply.

Roadmap

v1.0.0 — released. Core CMS, form-to-payment, orders/refunds/variants/tax, themes, search, the installer, and the readiness panel.

Planned for future releases:

• Merchant-of-Record integrations (e.g. Lemon Squeezy / Paddle) for global tax compliance
• Subscriptions & recurring billing
• Automated digital delivery (download links / licence keys / access grants on fulfilment)
• A WordPress importer + portable content packs
• Optional modules (comments, …) and paid add-on modules

Tallyst follows semantic versioning from v1.0.0 — the core API is the contract for add-on modules.

Screenshots

Coming soon.

License

MIT © 2026 Sve je dobro j.d.o.o.