Ask HN: E-Commerce Platform for Small Enterprises?

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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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

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

1oooqooq 2y ago ↗

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