Genesis - Digital Products Marketplace PHP Script

Genesis is a storefront for selling digital products: WordPress themes and plugins, PHP scripts, templates, documents and any other downloadable file.

Buyers get what they expect from a modern store: search with suggestions, filters, quick view, side-by-side comparison of up to four products, wishlist, reviews and buttons for live preview and documentation. Payment goes through Razorpay (UPI and cards) or PayPal with server-side verification, and files are delivered through expiring download tokens only after the purchase is confirmed.

It is built on PHP 8.1+ and SQLite with Tailwind CSS. No Composer and no Node build step, so it runs on shared hosting.

Who it is for

• Theme and plugin developers
• Script and template sellers
• Creators selling PDFs, presets or assets
• Agencies with their own product line

What is in the download

• Full PHP source code
• Admin panel and front end
• Auto-created SQLite database
• .htaccess rules
• HTML documentation
• Licence and changelog

Good to know

• The live demo is a working store; the demo products are not included.
• Images and articles in the live demo are for preview only and are not part of the download.

Features

Storefront

• Featured, recent and trending product sections
• Categories, tags, filters, sorting and AJAX search suggestions
• Quick view and compare up to four products
• Wishlist, cart and mini cart
• Live preview and documentation buttons per product
• Reviews, ratings, related and frequently bought together items
• INR and USD price display

Payments

• Razorpay for UPI and cards
• PayPal
• Server-side payment verification
• Manual order fallback

Protected downloads

• Private file storage for ZIP, RAR and 7z
• Purchase check before download
• Download tokens that expire
• Buyer download history

Accounts and admin

• Registration, login, profile and avatar
• Password reset flow
• Order and download history
• Product, order, customer and settings management in admin
• SEO-friendly URLs, schema and sitemap

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or newer
• PDO and PDO SQLite extensions (enabled on almost every host)
• mbstring, fileinfo and cURL extensions
• Apache or LiteSpeed (Nginx works with the rules in the documentation)
• Shared hosting, cPanel or VPS
• HTTPS recommended

Instructions

1. Download the ZIP from Codester and extract it on your computer.
2. Upload the contents of the source folder to public_html (or a subdomain folder) using File Manager or FTP.
3. Make the data and uploads folders writable (755, or 775 if your host needs it).
4. Open your domain in a browser. The SQLite database and default tables are created on the first visit.
5. Log in to the admin panel with the default login listed in README.txt inside the package, then change the password straight away.
6. Add your logo, site name, contact details and other settings.
7. Add your own content and remove the demo data.

The Documentation folder inside the download has the same steps with screenshots, plus answers to common questions.