Ecommerce components in Bootstrap Studio? Looking for feedback

[jo-r]

So will we be limited in how many we can host then? Similar to the site hosting being only 5? Will there be fees for the service?

[hackers_84]

I guess we will all find out when the BSS devs are ready to share more info, so we shouldn’t jump to conclusions just yet.

[jo-r]

Not jumping to conclusions here, just asking very pertinent questions as it may change how I look at the usefulness of it if I have to (or client has to) pay a fee to use it or if I can only do X number of shops for my clients and that’s it. I think those are pretty viable questions.

[hschneider]

Ecommerce components would be awesome. They would allow us to build small product-selling landingpages in situations whenever setting up a shop will mean an overhead of costs.

It would be enough to focus on the basic requirements:

• A logic to calculate VAT for physical and virtual goods, after the user entered his delivery address.
• Beside PayPal, paying by Bank Transfer should be an alternate option for those who do not want to use PayPal.
• If the customer is an EU member and enters a valid VAT ID, a zero tax rate needs to be applied (EU law).

There is one special thing here in Germany and maybe other countries:
The final buy-button has to be deactivated until the user checks the “I agree to the serller’s terms and conditions”.

If you add some clever Javascript hooks to this basic checkout process, it would be possible for us to add such features like voucher codes or automatic order processing by other systems. Maybe as reusable Extensions, coded by Bootstrap Studio users.

Even the EU or german market related things mentioned above, could be submitted by the community, if such hooks exist.

[martin]

@jo-r Unfortunately we won’t be developing a self-hosted version. We haven’t yet decided on the final pricing, but the ecommerce components will be free for small shops (less than 100 sales per month) and there won’t be a limit to how many stores you create.

For large stores there will be a monthly fee (in the order of $9-$19/m per store depending on number of sales). Charging for the service is the only way to make the service viable long term. I hope that the price is not too high ($9/m for a store with up to a thousand sales sounds reasonable I think).

@hschneider Thank you for the feedback! We’ll think about ways to make hooking custom logic possible.

[jo-r]

Sounds pretty reasonable so far so hopefully it will stay that way before it’s finished Looking forward to seeing this in action!

[bss_user]

How will things such as, Data, Privacy, Cookies, GDPR, etc., be handled considering BSS will be an additional piece along with the providers?

Also thanks for being so accessible within this thread @martin.

[hackers_84]

For the price that sounds very reasonable and for a subscription user, the more you sell, the more profit you would make to cover the sub cost.

Sounds like this this be a similar model to shopify? Very intrigued by this

[emmasweet]

Brilliant idea! Thank you for you continuous improvement of your wonderful software. It is appreciated.

[bsphil]

I work with JTL-Shop, it’s great solution, works with a combination from php, js, smarty and use bootstrap, would be great to design the frontend in BSS …greets

[dickykreedz]

Amazing idea, its brings more horizons to BSS

[chriscrespo]

Hi, I also agree to think it’s an awesome idea and feature to have. Hope you decide to do it. Thanks!

[elevenelks]

This is so amazing. I will use it extensively. Also, all our ideas can be heard, but left alone the possibility to use BSS for ecommerce projects shows the wide view and flexibility of your team.
Shops needing to be lightweight, seldomly found so definitley a number one for me again.

[richards]

@martin have you looked at snipcart.com? It is very easy to integrate. Basically add a js file and css file from their cdn, add a hidden field and then a button with a minimum of 4 data fields.

This will probably save you months of development.

I Just knocked this example up in about 30 minutes

https://snippets.bss.design/snipcart.html

(It may give some errors on checkout as I’m playing with the currency settings at the moment)

[bss_user]

@richards

@martin have you looked at snipcart.com? It is very easy to integrate.

@richards, yes snipcart was one of the ones I mentioned above and he responded to.

@martin

@bss_user Thank you for the suggestions! Gumroad, Paddle, Snipcart, Selz and Ecwid are store management/ecommerce platforms, and they already have a way to let you embed their stores in your site by including JS or embedding iframes. Instead we want to go a different route with our ecommerce components. We want to integrate with payment providers directly, and let your site become the store. You can embed components like product listings, “Add to Cart” buttons, “Shopping Cart Viewer”, “Product Search” field and others. This way you have complete control on how your store functions and how it is structured by just combining different components that work great together.

Instead they are building a hosted service on the BSS servers.

@martin

@bss_user The backend for the new components will be hosted on our servers, like our other cloud features (smartforms and bss sites).

[guygon]

Great improvement, thank you

[yystephens]

@martin

jo-r Unfortunately we won’t be developing a self-hosted version. We haven’t yet decided on the final pricing, but the ecommerce components will be free for small shops (less than 100 sales per month) and there won’t be a limit to how many stores you create.

The ecommerce components project looks very interesting. Can I ask if you would consider a PAYG option too for those situations where sales are more than 100 but substantially less than 1000? That could help in those situations of seasonal peak demand or those growing their business.
Thanks

[aleksandarpejas]

Great Idea, and looks so nice, I hope that soon we can add digital products like videos