Recommendations for small e-commerce

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I am also using Paddle happily for my store. I am German based, and Paddle is doing all the EU VAT handling for me.

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@Bazza I am on hold right now. @yuzool said they might have something coming out in March. He can correct me if Iā€™m wrong, but I donā€™t think @willwood uses RCP. He uses Paddle.

As @SteveB talks aboutā€¦ the added fees with everything is what I am trying to avoid. If Iā€™m willing to put the time in to build my store in RW, I wish there was a Stack I could use. Closest is Snap Chat, but it could be less cumbersome and I want to use Stripe vs Paypal.

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Are there any credit card fees on top of paddleā€™s 5% does anyone know?

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Nope itā€™s just 5%+50p

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There has got to be something cheaper than that. 5% for basically processing a transaction? Iā€™m apparently in the wrong business.

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They do the VAT thing for me as a german. I love to pay the fees. And of course, the price of a product has to include this fees. If it does not, you have not calculated your price.

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A couple of questions that have come up from investigating paddle:

Customers only seem to be able to buy one thing at once. This is a bit of a pain. Anyway around it?

Given that your transaction is with paddle (so they deal with all of the paperwork) how do you get customer details to populate your database? I donā€™t want to add paypal fees on top of what paddle charge.

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Well, a shopping cart would be welcome, but it isnā€™t that hurting.

You can generate CSV exports from all transactions.

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Thatā€™s the way modern stores tend to handle digital downloads. Think iTunes, Google Play and Amazon. You just click a button and download instantly. These services donā€™t have carts for things like software and MP3s.

This is also a good system to thwart off fraudulent transactions and chargebacks. It slows someone down from buying everything on your store and then filing a chargeback. If they have to buy each item separately and then file a separate dispute with PayPal, they are going to quickly give up!

Of course, you can still easily group multiple products together into 1-click bundles or offer subscription access for your customers.

I tend to keep everything online with Paddle. If I do need to download anything, I use the CSV export option.

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Are you using PayPal then Will?

Seems expensive with their fees and Paddleā€™s, or does the paddle fee include the PayPal charges?

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To repeat: no additional PayPal feesā€¦

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Pricing: Pricing | Paddle

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@yuzool and myself put together an eCommerce Demo based on Poster Stack and his various eCommerce Stacks:

http://posterdemo.instacks.com/parker/

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Yes, that is true, as pictures have to be aligned, payment options configured, etc.

Letā€™s see :slight_smile:

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Great work @instacks - cool demo of whatā€™s really possible :slight_smile:

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@yuzool would your cart stack work alongside @willwood 's paddle stack?

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@yuzool, sorry - got your Twitter reply. What I meant was could your cart stack be used to buy more than one digital download at a time through paddle, but it seems not.

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@yuzool please let us know what you answered. Others may be interested.

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Sure Doug!

Thanks @Bazza

I thought the question was can Paddle and Cart work on the same pageā€¦ the answer is ā€œyes!ā€ (that was the Twitter talk)

It was referring to @instacks cool demo of Poster Stack with Cart / Stripe Checkout:
http://posterdemo.instacks.com/parker/

But to answer the question now I think it would be best to just use Paddle?

Cart is PayPal only so best for physical products or services. To sell digital downloads you need to think about product updates, file delivery, piracy (hot linking) etc. I imagine @willwood Paddle Stack would allow more than one purchase - same with @instacks

If Paddle doesnā€™t allow multi products, then maybe have to do one and one at a time and then sell bundles for multiples?

What kinds of things will you be selling? How many items?

Forgive the plug, but we go over this briefly in our ā€œ5 steps to better weavingā€ free email courseā€¦ I think around week 4 - you can get that here

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Thanks. I think that Iā€™m going to need to look at bundles for more than one product.

Paddle have said they only do one at a time, but that some developers had managed to produce cart software to achieve this (though they didnā€™t give me any demos).

The cart for paddle would be a successful stack if someone were to produce it.