I want a simple GUI to manage the store & output a static site & manage hosting with terraform files/CDN for any cloud vendor. Lambdas for billing & SQLite/Redis for storage.
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#22Honestly - don’t. Beyond the technical challenges, have you considered: - All the little tax issues for various countries/states - Security in processing payments, avoiding fraud and protecting customer data - Integrating payment processing for credit card companies, Payp et al. and NOT having to deal with constant “account freezes” due to stolen credit card payments, customer complaints etc. For selling software, I…
Just to note that several issues you cite are handled can be handled by the payment processor like Stripe.
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#23Woocommerce. Can you elaborate more on "ideological reasons"? I'm genuinely curious why you don't feel ok to pay less than $1/sale to shopify to keep your store up & running but are ok paying much more on fulfillment/shipping.
I've a multiple stores and some stores get 5 sales a month on $10 item and for that I can't afford Shopify. I am looking for something which I can host on my own as I've nearly free servers (I receive digital ocean credit through affiliate sales on the guides I wrote) so hosting is free for me and tinkering is free as there not much work where I working so I can fix my website in that time. Also I don't like to pay m…
OpenCart and Prestashop are open PHP/MySQL shops with a lot of available payment provider plugins.
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#24Openbazaar
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#25I'm surprised no one mentionned Prestashop here.
Aside WooCommerce this is a really solid solution since years now, that can scale and have real plugin official marketplace with verified contributors. WooCommerce has way more hassle ...
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#26If you're comfortable with PHP, Shopware & Sylius (both built on Symfony). For Python, look at Saleor. If you don't want to live in a world of pain (
see looping__lui), use a SaaS solution like Snipcart or BigCommerce (which has very competitive rates vs. Shopify). Use the time to learn how to market your product, run ads, create content and grow your business.
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#27Prestashop, WooCommerce, Snipcart, Magento, are all decent self-hosted solutions.
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#28Recently had some experience with nopCommerce and it's been neat to work with.
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#29Honestly - don’t. Beyond the technical challenges, have you considered: - All the little tax issues for various countries/states - Security in processing payments, avoiding fraud and protecting customer data - Integrating payment processing for credit card companies, Payp et al. and NOT having to deal with constant “account freezes” due to stolen credit card payments, customer complaints etc. For selling software, I…
OT: why have you omitted the last two letters from each of the company names?
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#30If you can't afford the shopify fees you don't actually have a business.