If you're running an e-commerce store built on Framer, the export conversation is meaningfully different from a marketing or portfolio site — the store functionality itself doesn't come along for the ride.
What actually depends on Framer's backend
Product listings, cart state, checkout, and payment processing on a Framer store run through Framer's own commerce infrastructure (or a connected provider, depending on setup) — none of that is static markup you can export and have keep working. A runtime-stripped HTML export of a Framer store gets you the design — product pages, layout, branding — with none of the actual buying functionality intact. Add-to-cart buttons and checkout flows will not work against exported static output.
What this means practically
For a store that's actively selling: exporting the design isn't a real path to "leave Framer while keeping the store running" — you'd need to rebuild commerce functionality against a different platform's backend (Shopify, a headless commerce API, Stripe Checkout directly) and wire the exported design up to it, which is a genuine development project, not a one-click conversion.
For a landing page or catalog with checkout elsewhere: if your "store" is really a product showcase that links out to a separate checkout flow (a Shopify Buy Button, a Stripe payment link), the export story is much closer to a normal marketing site — the showcase pages export fine, since they were never depending on Framer's own commerce backend to begin with.
The realistic path if you want to leave Framer commerce specifically
- Decide on your actual commerce backend first (Shopify, WooCommerce, a headless setup) — this decision matters more than the export tooling.
- Export the Framer site's design for reference and for any pages that are genuinely static (about, FAQ, non-commerce content).
- Rebuild the storefront pages against your chosen commerce backend, using the exported design as a visual reference rather than expecting it to plug in directly.
This is meaningfully more work than exporting a marketing site, and worth knowing upfront rather than discovering after an export that your checkout button does nothing.