Ryan Mauldin

Co-Founder @GetCartGenie 🧞 Building the future of ecommerce on Webflow

[Ryan Mauldin @RMauldin]

"Moving to @GetCartGenie cut my time spent on order fulfillment in half. Their shipping integration is more advanced than competitors, plus the ability to collect custom information at checkout streamlined our entire ecommerce process. Ecommerce isn’t just functionality — it’s part of the brand experience, and CartGenie helped us make it ours."

— John Swain, founder of @ZipRunning

[Webflow @webflow]

From art books and athletic gear to school uniforms and sports tech — modern brands are blending content and commerce using Webflow and powerful Apps like @shopyflow, @GetCartGenie, @stripe, and @smootifyapp.

Discover how four innovative businesses are selling products, services and subscriptions, and scaling ecommerce experiences without sacrificing creative freedom https://t.co/YPdzflvdm8

[Ryan Mauldin @RMauldin]

Checkout is where ecommerce stores lose the most money. Not homepage design. Not product photos. Checkout.

Customers abandon their cart because you made them work too hard to finish buying.

Extra form fields. Manual coupon entry. Credit card details they've already typed into 40 other stores this year. Every tap between "I want it" and "it's mine" is another chance for your customer to bounce.

So this release for @GetCartGenie was built around one idea: remove steps between intent and purchase.

⚡ Express Checkout — Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal buttons right in the cart or top of the checkout page. Tap, confirm, done. No name. No address. No typing.

🛒 Cart-prefill links — Drop a URL in an email or ad and land your buyer on-site with the product already in their cart.

🔗 Auto-apply coupons via URL — The discount is already applied before they hit the page. No more "where do I enter the code?" support tickets.

➕ Multi-product buy buttons — Sell bundles, kits, and pre-configured packages in one click instead of three.

READ MORE 👉👉 https://t.co/kvvGb9WKyH

BONUS: 🖼️ Automatic alt text for product images — SEO-ready images out of the box, pre-filled with your store, product, and variant names.

Plus a few behind-the-scenes wins for merchants:
- Cleaner customer vs. shipping data
- Automatic Stripe refund sync into CartGenie (instead of only initiating in CartGenie)
- And real order data in Zapier setup flows (instead of just dummy data when setting up a Zap)

Every one of these is live now, on every plan — free or paid.

Most of it still isn't possible in Webflow Ecommerce natively. That's exactly why CartGenie exists.

#Webflow #Ecommerce #WebflowEcommerce #ConversionRate #NoCode

[Ryan Mauldin @RMauldin]

We're bringing the magic 🪄 back to #ecommerce on #Webflow one release at a time.

[CartGenie @GetCartGenie]

We just removed 80% of the friction from setting up accurate ecommerce analytics on Webflow.
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#Webflow #Ecommerce #Analytics #Startups #SaaS #BuildInPublic

[Ryan Mauldin @RMauldin]

@recap_david CALICO

[Webflow @webflow]

Component Canvas is officially rolling out.

If you’ve ever managed components at scale, you know how quickly things can get complicated.

Jumping between pages. Hunting down the main component. Context switching between breakpoints, variants, and states. Making a change… and hoping it didn’t quietly break something somewhere else.

As design systems grow, that complexity only compounds.

The Component Canvas is a dedicated space for designing and managing components with multiple contexts visible side-by-side, so you can move faster and more confidently, without compromising consistency.

Rolling out to all workspaces this week.

[Summer Yue @summeryue0]

Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The real story here is worse than a fumble. It’s a three-step own goal.

January 9: Anthropic locks Claude Code OAuth tokens, killing every third-party tool that built on Claude subscriptions. OpenClaw, which recommended Claude Opus 4.5 as its default model, wakes up to a broken integration. No warning. No partner outreach.

January 27: Anthropic’s legal team sends the cease-and-desist over “Clawdbot” sounding too similar to “Claude.” Steinberger complies at 5 AM on a Discord call. During the 10-second window where he releases the old GitHub and X handles, crypto scammers hijack both accounts and run a $16M pump-and-dump scheme. The chaos reflects on the entire Claude ecosystem.

February 15: Steinberger announces he’s joining OpenAI.

So Anthropic had the fastest-growing open source project in AI history (145K+ GitHub stars, 2 million visitors in a single week), built by a guy who sold his last company for ~€100M, whose tool literally recommended Claude as the default model to millions of new users.

Their response was to cut off his API access and send lawyers.

Steinberger spent last week in San Francisco meeting with every major lab. He explicitly said he could have built OpenClaw into a massive company but chose OpenAI because he wanted “the fastest way to bring this to everyone.” Meanwhile OpenClaw has already spread to China, with Baidu planning direct integration into its main app.

This is a project that was essentially a free distribution channel for Claude. Millions of developers installing a tool that defaults to your model. The growth marketing team at Anthropic should have been sending gift baskets, not legal notices.

Sam Altman just got handed an open-source agent framework with global distribution and a brilliant founder, because Anthropic’s legal department moved faster than their partnerships team.

[Ryan Mauldin @RMauldin]

https://t.co/HbGMB8Itzv

[Ryan Mauldin @RMauldin]

If your Webflow store sells internationally and you're still only offering credit cards at checkout — you're leaving money on the table.

Here's what we just shipped in CartGenie:
🇳🇱 iDEAL — the #1 payment method in the Netherlands
🇧🇪 Bancontact — the standard for Belgian online shoppers
💳 Afterpay / Clearpay — The buy now, pay later method most requested by our Australian stores!

Plus: Advanced currency formatting controls💲💶 💴 so prices actually look right to customers all over the world (even very unique formats like in India!).

In the Netherlands, ~70% of online transactions go through iDEAL. If you don't offer it, most Dutch shoppers won't even try to check out.

Same story in Belgium with Bancontact.

The fastest way to increase international conversion isn't a redesign — it's letting people understand prices and pay the way they already want to.

All of this is live now and included on every CartGenie plan. No add-ons, no extra fees.

Full breakdown 👉👉 https://t.co/g4t0mi29qO

#Webflow #ecommerce #WebflowEcommerce #CartGenie