Ask HN: What is a good hosted shopping cart with an API?

7 points·vortico··7 comments

I have my own store website with my own "Buy" buttons, and I want those buttons to direct the user to a cart page at another domain where they can either go back or continue to enter their credit card and email. Once they complete the purchase, I should be able to call API endpoints to scan for new purchases.

Have anyone had positive experiences with services like these?

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Not sure if it fits but Shopify have a JavaScript API as well as "buy buttons" that will show a sidebar cart on your site.

This is actually closer to my original plan than Stripe. Click "Buy now" at https://www.shopify.com/buy-button and it does exactly what I need. Documentation at http://shopify.github.io/js-buy-sdk/examples/. Pricing is different than Stripe but within reason.

You should use stripe checkout

Look like this is the best option so far. I'll need to write my own "cart" in Javascript to display in the sidebar, but the fees are low and the checkout modal is simple.

Look at Moltin (https://moltin.com), YC W15:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/moltin-yc-w15-wants-to-simplify-...

Thanks, this looks great, and I'm much more likely to choose YC alumni. But I can't really figure out exactly what Moltin does by its homepage. Lots of BS per page fold. It looks like it has a server API, but what I want to do shouldn't require server API calls at all. A URL on my static site should just go to a page on the service's website, and I shouldn't need to make any more API calls after that.

https://gethelium.com/ is one that I've found, which opens a cart to the side when you click "Live Demo".

Ecwid

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