Ask HN: E-Commerce Platform for Small Enterprises?

3 points·Madimini··6 comments

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!

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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

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

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.

10 pieces at $1? just use a blog and all then to pay you whatever way. Venmo, PayPal, Amazon wishlist. etc.

You can to this with Wordpress and Woocommerce easily.

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).

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