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What does "Gateways are Shopify and PayPal" mean?

Do you need a PayPal account and dabble with their API to set up this type of solution?

Or is a Shopfiy account enough?

Shopify lets you choose which payment options you'll let customers check out with. Examples are Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments, Google Pay, etc. A Shopify account is enough to get started, you won't need to dabble with any APIs.

However, if you're wanting to sell digital products, it may not be the best option for you. I've had to do a bit of extra work to get it to work for my situation.

Thanks. So at least in theory it is possible to just set up a Shopify account and start selling digital goods. Good to know. But yes, I would probably try Stripe first.

Aren't your prints also like digital goods? I would expect you do not print them yourself but forward the image and order data to some whitelabel printing solution?

Yeah we do use a print on demand service, and the main reason we use Shopify at all is because the printer (Printful) has a good Shopify app that handles all the product syncing and fulfillment automatically.

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