If you can't afford the shopify fees you don't actually have a business.
Just pointing out he said for ideological reasons.
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#32If 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.
Sylius should be seen more as a framework. And while it is full featured, it also is maintenance.
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#33Reading through these replies makes feel like the only person who doesn't sell something and made me curious about what people here are selling.
Slightly off topic I know, but anyone care to share what product or service they use these services for?
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#34If you can't afford the shopify fees you don't actually have a business.
I also sell 3d printed models online so I've made like 20+ e-commerce websites so far. Most of them are niche website and get 5-10 sales each and some even get zero sales but some websites are seasonal in nature and in some season or event, they blow up in sales.
I am trying to capture this windfall but Shopify is not good for this task.
They charge per store so I am limited to just having one store which is not good for niche work - exploration and discovery.
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#35So what would be the the most simple and cheap non-self-hosted shop and site architecture for small businesses that would enable sales globally?
Are there any tutorials/blog posts on this topic?
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#36Several people mentioned Magento already. For your project, I'd stongly add suggest you should ignore that. While Magento has loads of features build it, it also misses some, I'd consider important. You can not create a custom invoice template out of the box for example.
If you are a somewhat experienced developer, Sylius might give you a good experience and code quality. We build a shop on an earlier version, and it runs solid - not a single downtime in years.
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#37If you’re familiar with python and django, then saleor might be a good option: https://saleor.io/
I second that. Have used saleor for couple of Ecommerce stores. Has enough features to launch a store out of the box while lacking all the features that if incorporated would make the platform extremely complicated. You can take the community edition and extend it to meet your requirements.
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#38Several people mentioned Magento already. For your project, I'd stongly add suggest you should ignore that. While Magento has loads of features build it, it also misses some, I'd consider important. You can not create a custom invoice template out of the box for example. If you are a somewhat experienced developer, Sylius might give you a good experience and code quality. We build a shop on an earlier version, and it…
And talking about downtime, see that you get a solid webhost. A clients shop had ~1h downtime a day (!) that nobody could explain. Same setup on a new host runs for a couple of weeks now without issues.
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#39Drupal Commerce.
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#40Give a look st Sylius. https://sylius.com/
It written in PHP and has clean and modern codebase what is great if you need some custom development