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Ask HN: E-Commerce Platform for Small Enterprises?

3 points by Madimini 2y ago

Hi everyone, I have been searching for an e-commerce platform/service that allows me to sell digital art (e.g., Shopify). However, since Shopify and others seem to be quite pricy for small businesses (I guess I'll sell a maximum of 10 pieces/month at $1$), I was wondering if anyone can recommend any alternatives that are more suitable for small enterprises with little traffic? Thanks in advance!

throwaway888abc 2y ago
You can to this with Wordpress and Woocommerce easily.
- fallinditch 2y ago
  This is my recommendation too. You can do a lot with Woocommerce, for no cost apart from hosting it and paying for premium plugins (sounds like you may not need many or any of these).
eastbayjake 2y ago
If you are just trying to process the transaction and don't need eg catalog or inventory management, Stripe Payment Links probably does the trick: https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links
- Madimini 2y ago
  Thanks, great advice! I already created an account and looked around a bit. However, it seems that I need to make a payment link for each digital image (correct?), because I'd need to use the forwarding functionality to forward the user to the download link after the payment.
eonpi 2y ago
Definitely give Stripe a chance, besides payment links, you can have your product catalog, and create pricing tables that you can embed in a static web page, and Stripe takes care of the rest. Documentation here: https://docs.stripe.com/no-code/pricing-table https://docs.stripe.com/no-code/pricing-table
1oooqooq 2y ago
10 pieces at $1? just use a blog and all then to pay you whatever way. Venmo, PayPal, Amazon wishlist. etc.