So, if you need to convince your managers or yourself to spend effort/money/time on accessability, SEO and traffic from search may be convincing if other reasons are not.
Depending on the juristiction your customers operate in, any accessibility issues could also expose them to legal liability for non-compliance with various laws (eg ADA in the US, the Web Accessibility Directive in the EU for public sector bodies)
I built this initially for my wife. She owns two online stores in Shopify. With her Lite plan, she only pays $9/month/store versus the Basic plan for $29/month/store. Since the Lite plan doesn't include an online store, TinyStore allows merchants to have one.
The app is still new. I appreciate any feedback.
Thanks!
I've tried clicking on products from a few places and it always seems to show in a modal (with no pushState, FF 89).
I can definitely think of people who this would be great for – it's almost like headless commerce for the extreme low end. I'll be interested to see if you build this out further and what you decide to add. I'm surprised more haven't attempted to build full, wholesale replacement of Shopify's frontend outside of enterprise alternatives like Shogun Frontend.
A simple theming system and more customization would be a natural next step.
My wife is a good example where she doesn't need a fancy storefront. She gets her customers from Instagram/Facebook. She only needs a super basic/low-end storefront for her customers to do their purchase.
there's plenty of Shopify merchants and partners who aren't even aware of the Lite plan, and if they know it's there, are unclear of the limitations. - 100% agree.
> Whether you’re on WordPress, Squarespace, Tumblr, or anywhere else, with just a few clicks you can turn your website into an online store.
I went to "live demo" to check it out. Scrolled to bottom and clicked on LED Hightops. Read the description. Hit "back." Suddenly I'm not at the "store" demo anymore, now I'm back at the landing page, which would be the previous site if this was a real store. Fuck, that's annoying. Clicked live demo again, remembered the site it broken so I have to open new products in a new tab, long pressed another product, no context menu comes up so no way to open in new tab (because, according to another poster products links are not links).
I give up, I'll buy something else somewhere else.
I would just pay $29/month for Shopify basic plan. Is the $20 difference worth self hosting and tweaking a custom thing? You’ll quickly lose that $20 in time better spent running your business. I’d rather have reliable hosting...
Not to bash a cool side project. Just want to say it’s not a panacea.
I do see a niche for tinystore, but, like you, I also see that anyone making some real money off their store will gladly pay some extra's for more reliability and less fuss.
-- [0] the ones now often reaching to woocommerce or equivalents. A hobby-, bootstrapping, "try this idea, see if it sticks".
They have obviously made the decision that it doesn't make sense for a $134b company to solve this problem. But it probably makes sense for a guy solving his wife's problem to create this solution.
$15/month savings can be spent in FB/Instagram ads or something that can drive more customers. In 3 months, you save $45 or $180/year.
I'm also planning allow users to add multiple stores. The site is hosted in DO and can scale up easily.
I am setting up an online store for my parents. I can host and manage it at least for the initial days where they can validate the idea.
These two looks promising.
1. https://woocommerce.com/ 2. https://magento.com/
Found more alternatives https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/best-woocommerce-alterna...
Wondering anyone has experience/feedback on any of these projects. Thanks.
Try the Blocksy theme with Woocommerce.
Woocommerce is built on Wordpress, which is one of least secure platforms out there. You'll have to apply patches at least weekly.
Use a hosted service, like Shopify or Squarespace or anything really.
Shopify Lite is Shopify's Cheapest Plan. It does not include a hosted storefront but they do give you a "Buy Now" snippet which takes you straight to a checkout page.
TinyStore gives you a hosted storefront to display and customize all those "Buy Now" snippets like a full-blown ecommerce website.
The combined price ($9 for Lite and $5 for TinyStore) is cheaper than Shopify's Basic Plan ($29).
You're charging $5/month for the front end and hosting of the tiny store/website and on top of that I need to have the additional $9/month shopify lite plan correct?
If you need the POS, I think it's included in all plans (including the Lite plan).
Two important JS libraries from Shopify: - Shopify BuyButton.js for the product modal, cart and checkout - Shopify JavaScript Buy SDK for product pagination
Could add a favicon.
What do you think it contravenes in those rules?