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Ok, thanks for the links! Just yesterday we increased of Pro product image limit to 12 images. We might be able to increase the Plus plan to allow 6 image, how does that sound?
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Your current site has (what Cartloom would consider) 4 product Groups. For sure we can now raise the Plus plan beyond 3 groups! No worries on this, thanks for pointing it out.
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Our Cartloom invoices can without a doubt “create a client, project, quote, invoice, contract, and receive payments through Stripe”. Sorry for any confusion! I’ve attached a screenshot of our create invoice process.
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ok. You’ve convinced me enough to set up the free service and see how it works 
I’m still not sure I will have enough places to put images, but I will check it out.
As you can see, subscriptions add up:
Website hosting
Client Gallery hosting
Quickbooks accounting
17hats CRM
CC fees
If I can do most of that in one place, I would be able to eliminate some of the others.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
thanks
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Great news, I just talked with Mike (lead Cartloom dev), starting tomorrow - we’re dropping all Group limits, and increasing the Plus plan image count to 6!
Definately checkout all features with your free account, we might be able to replace your use of 17Hats. Also you mention hosting… we have plans in store, but I can’t talk on that right now…
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Sounds good, thanks
I’m happy with Chillidog for hosting, but I can’t do my client galleries there, that I use Pixieset for, which I could use for a shopping cart, but that’s an added fee. As mentioned, everything has a subscription fee now, so it all adds up.
But I’ll check out and see what I can do.
Exactly. Which is why I was willing to spend 6 months building my Rapidcart… to avoid paying subscription and extra fees. Unfortunately, even that didn’t have enough options, and support was non-existent.
… sounds good Nick, the only thing that have held me back where the fees (%) but will have a good look to it for sure as you increased the Plus plan image count and dropping all Group limits. Good to know
I suppose it will work without any issues with Foundry yep?
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Cartloom is not reliant on the web building platform, so Wordpress, RapidWeaver, RW + Foundry - Cartloom will always work like a champ.
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Thanks @LSPhoto - you can see in the Cart demo you can add options like “colour” or “size”
http://demo.yuzoolthemes.com/cart/single-page.html
But options that then bring up a second set of options is not available in the cart stack I’m afraid. Maybe for more complex operations like that re-direct to an order form that can be made in a contact Form?
I guess Cart is a bridge between Rapidcart and self created buttons in PayPal so if Rapidcart doesn’t have those options I’m not sure about other solutions in RapidWeaver that will except for Cartloom
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@sharijos - the login is only for Cloud subscribers We sent this out in a few email newsletters. Sorry to hear that you are having navigation issues we think it’s much easier and a lot faster. There’s currently 5 products on sale at the moment so not much to navigate at the moment 
Paddle ist in fact the same thing what stripe is, they also charge per Sale, you get the details here:
Short: 5% + 50ct per Sale
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Well, I’m really no Paddle-Guru, but as far as I’m getting the whole idea behind it, its pretty much the same thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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When I get my store set up, I simply want to sell digital downloads (songs/videos etc) would I be better off persevering with Rapidcart or would people suggest I use paddle with one of the stacks?
I don’t expect to be shifting huge volumes.
Will any of your buyers of digital downloads be from within the EU? If so, then you will need to deduct VAT (the law says so) from each purchase - irregardless of what currency you trade in and where you are trading from. The amount of VAT varies, depending on where a person is buying from. 3 pieces of evidence also needs to be collected, to prove where the person is buying from. The collected VAT needs to be sent back to the member state quarterly. The customer needs to be in receipt of an invoice that clearly shows the amount of tax paid and your VAT registration details etc.
So taking the above into account, opting to use Paddle or another intermediary as the payment vendor might be a sensible move. They will handle all the tax and complicated paperwork on your behalf, ensuring your webstore is secure and operating legally. This could be beneficial to you, especially if you claim not to be shifting high volumes or big price-point units.
Setup of Paddle is easy. Customer support is very, very good. The cart is modern and people find it easy to use. My free PaddleBoard stack can enhance your storefront further. Paddle has no monthly fees - just a small percentage charge from each transaction.
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Thanks Will. As most of my site is your stuff, I shouldn’t need to worry too much about compatibility then!
Is your store made from your paddle stack?
@SteveB do your reservations above all apply to paddle? As I understand it, it’s an alternative to Paypal (so no additional fees other than the 5%+50 cents per transaction). Anything else I should be aware of?
I couldn’t agree more @SteveB. I’m very happy with the product and the support I’ve received from RapidCart.
5% + 50 cents seems a bit steep. I use Stripe, which is half what Paddle charges.
But if it’s handling all the EU bureaucracy, it might be a better solution.
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Paddle will automatically do the VAT handling for you, as also invoicing.
With that, Paddle is not like PayPal.
One of the selling points of Rapidcart Pro was that it could handle the EU VAT laws. Is no one else aware of this? I’ve had the non responsive Rapid cart and Rapid link set up for a while and they’ve plodded along without any problems.
@willwood uses paddle for his own store, but has also collaborated with Rapidcart on some of his themes. I wonder if he might give us some insight as to what prompted that decision?
@LSPhoto we seem to be in a similar situation. Have you decided what to do yet?
Regards
Barrie
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