So - in order to proceed with Elements, I need both a blog and a shop
It would appear that RW will cover the blog with it’s CMS - when will there be something that resembles a blog ?
Webshop was something I bought into after RapidCart died - they promised a plug-in for Elements but now blame RW for not providing the necessary tools to allow a port. Please - what’s the story here ?
Jol
Yes, the Elements CMS will allow you to build a blog, and much more. There will be a free project on the marketplace soon that contains a pre-built blog setup for the Elements CMS.
We don’t currently have our own built-in solution planned, but Elements works well with third-party services like Snipcart, Shopify, or Ecwid, which give you far more flexibility and scalability than the old RapidCart plugin ever did. We’re not ruling out a native shop component in the future, but for now the focus is on the CMS and the main site-building features in the App.
Understood, I did ask a question about the promised Webshop add-on, which apparently needs your support in order to be. So having spent money on that promise - as is often the case with third party tools, you get let down.
These are all £20 - £25 / month for the base case. Rapidcart and Webshop (and Paysnap I guess) all promised functionality at a fee without on-going overhead - which as you know I’m wary of.
You could take a look at Vibralogix: Shopping Cart for Paypal & Stripe
It supports Elements. 
Jol
I use Cartloom and it’s just a case of copying and pasting snippets. What is link to “webshop” and I’ll have look at it and see if it can work for you.
Here it is Paul - it was promised as an Elements add-on, but so far only works with Classic. Devs blame RW - I dunno. Thanks if you can take a squint
Yes I am a vibralogix fan - very good work
Got about 40 products at Trumpetstudio.com
Got 600+ products at PlayTheBlues.com
Very happy was a rapidcart pro user….
This looks a standard cart face very similar to Cartloom. The “sell/buy buttons” can you get an html code for if so this is simple to recreate in ELEMENTS better still if you can get a snippet for while of “product” container even better.
If you can post a snippet here and I’ll help you.
when I had a shop I just used my PayPal account
I set a form up with all the info I needed…when I received it I then just went to PayPal and created an invoice which I emailed them. It give the choice to pay by credit card or PayPal and the best part….doesent cost a penny…..you can also create buttons for shopping carts etc if you wanna go down that route but I found it easier just use a form and invoice. PayPal keeps all the invoices etc if you need to print etc for the dare I say it….tax man
you can set up a PayPal business account but you pay a percentage of sales so I didnt bother.
all these cartloom rapid cart etc charge….why when just as easy to use PayPal for nothing
In UK the HMRC ask for digital returns. Even the new self employed rules coming very soon are driving accountants out of business with their complexity. So does your method do digital returns?
youll have to look at PayPal site….the business account probably. it will be chaos for the HMRC as I used to be self employed but I had an agent who done it all for me…it was online service and she was very good,
[I dont hit that threshold – which is currently £50000 in online sales, declining to £20000 in online sales in 2027 (as I understand).]
However, you gave me an idea - I’m missing a shop … there are simply no good cheap options for Elements. However, I see that Paypal will now allow you to build a ‘shop’ in a Paypal business account. Formerly you could make a button there to take a payment - but now I see it’s been fleshed out and contains your product images and descriptions etc and even a simple shopping cart. So - I’m thinking - perhaps I remove the shop entirely from Elements and just allow Paypal to handle the sales page. What am I missing here ? SEO issues ? I wouldn’t have to pay anybody for the shop tech and it’s then project agnostic - so I can move it to Elements easily.
Cartloom is approx £222 per annum, thats just over 1% of your £20K sales in 2027 I would class this as very cheap. Cartloom is written in Tailwind but all you do is copy and paste code snippets which work easy in Elements for your shop. Option 1 is do all shop work in Elements and copy button code across or do everything in Cartloom and copy product snippets across. If you look at my site compression.solutions - not trying to sell you anything and click shop all and drill down one product this is Cartloom product snippet. This is done in F6 and RW8. but I am currently rewriting whole site in Elements. I use Stripe and Paypal so accept ALL forms of payments including bitcoin and Apple Pay/Google Pay and I am NOT a coder just a copier and paster type person. That was until I started using ELEMENTS and now learning quite a bit about code at nearly 70 years old - youre never to old to learn!