Ask HN: What platform would you use if you launched a physical and online shop?
I do want them to be able to purchase through the a website as well and get things shipped if they couldn't make it in.
Managing inventory between online/offline sales seems pretty important and I'd like them to nicely talk to each other.
Looked at Stripe, Shopify, Square? And some seem to offer POS that speaks talks to their platform which seems ideal. I might have one or two employees working at the store (it's small) so keeping costs super low and being able to use a tiny stand to swipe cards seems nice. Minimal training.
Basically a low cost operation, but I'd need to fire up a site and wouldn't want to spend a ton of money or time here getting operational. Website is somewhat secondary, but I want it available. This is my job but want to keep this simple as I'd like focus on the core aspects of the business. I've implemented simple things like using the Stripe API before which was awesome, but feel like that's not the ideal situation here. I've only worked with 100% online stores and doing a brick and mortar although small adds complexity.
What's the go-to "bootstrap" method for this?
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