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Shopify is so expensive and for a small-time shop hosting and paying the shop fee eat up your first 2-10 sales easily, where is the free platform that only char

by sova 7y ago

Shopify is so expensive and for a small-time shop hosting and paying the shop fee eat up your first 2-10 sales easily, where is the free platform that only charges per sale?

thrownaway954 7y ago
Wordpress + WooCommerce You can say all you want about bad the platform is, but the fact of the matter is that you can setup and start selling on a proven platform for almost nothing.
- dwd 7y ago
  I would say not. You have hosting and you have to deal with maintenance, security and backups. Your Shopify fees cover that and the payment processing fees are comparable. Unless there is some feature that WooCommerce can throw in for free that would require paying a Shopify developer an ongoing fee (wishlist functionality is probably one) your monthly fees are going to be similar.
nspady 7y ago
Square's online store is probably the best for being able to sell without paying a platform fee for most features. But it is much less feature rich than Shopify.
itsyogesh 7y ago
Take a look at Reaction Commerce[0]. They are pitching themselves as an open-source Shopify competitor which you can host on your servers. [0]https://www.reactioncommerce.com/ https://www.reactioncommerce.com/
- victor106 7y ago
  From their docs “Reaction is built with JavaScript (ES6), Meteor, Node.js and works nicely with Docker.” Is Meteor still being actively developed?
  - no_wizard 7y ago
    Yes, it appears so: https://github.com/meteor/meteor https://github.com/meteor/meteor looks like they're a monorepo now: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/devel/packages https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/devel/packages but its slow going, from the looks of it perhaps. I think the meteor community is a shell of what it used to be, though. I wonder how Smile Software is handling it, they were 'all in' on meteor when they announced their subscription pricing model.
mkorfmann 7y ago
Will your business be viable if you can't even afford Shopify?
- sova 7y ago
  Have you heard of economies of scale?
  - mkorfmann 7y ago
    Have you heard of homeless people?
    - sova 7y ago
      Yes, there are many Rough Sleepers 'round these parts.

by sova 7y ago

Shopify is so expensive and for a small-time shop hosting and paying the shop fee eat up your first 2-10 sales easily, where is the free platform that only charges per sale?

thrownaway954 7y ago

Wordpress + WooCommerce You can say all you want about bad the platform is, but the fact of the matter is that you can setup and start selling on a proven platform for almost nothing.

dwd 7y ago
I would say not. You have hosting and you have to deal with maintenance, security and backups. Your Shopify fees cover that and the payment processing fees are comparable. Unless there is some feature that WooCommerce can throw in for free that would require paying a Shopify developer an ongoing fee (wishlist functionality is probably one) your monthly fees are going to be similar.

nspady 7y ago

Square's online store is probably the best for being able to sell without paying a platform fee for most features. But it is much less feature rich than Shopify.

itsyogesh 7y ago

Take a look at Reaction Commerce[0]. They are pitching themselves as an open-source Shopify competitor which you can host on your servers. [0]https://www.reactioncommerce.com/ https://www.reactioncommerce.com/

victor106 7y ago
From their docs “Reaction is built with JavaScript (ES6), Meteor, Node.js and works nicely with Docker.” Is Meteor still being actively developed?
- no_wizard 7y ago
  Yes, it appears so: https://github.com/meteor/meteor https://github.com/meteor/meteor looks like they're a monorepo now: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/devel/packages https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/devel/packages but its slow going, from the looks of it perhaps. I think the meteor community is a shell of what it used to be, though. I wonder how Smile Software is handling it, they were 'all in' on meteor when they announced their subscription pricing model.

mkorfmann 7y ago

Will your business be viable if you can't even afford Shopify?

sova 7y ago
Have you heard of economies of scale?
- mkorfmann 7y ago
  Have you heard of homeless people?
  - sova 7y ago
    Yes, there are many Rough Sleepers 'round these parts.