How to process payments
Hi there,
I am trying to make a site where I can sell my HTML templates. Here are the steps I know I have to deal with:
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Buying a domain (.com) - preferably from GoDaddy.
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Making the site myself with HTML, CSS, JS and maybe some other framework.
- I don't like Wordpress as it takes away my freedom and also I don't know PHP much to integrate my site into WordPress and I don't want to use templates. Do you think WordPress is a good idea?
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Hosting the site - I think AWS free tier should do it. But AWS itself is kind of confusing (EC2 and S3).
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Managing payments - Stripe, PayPal or something else?
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I will be hosting the demo sites too.
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I will be sending the source code through email just as payment confirmation occurs. Not sure how to implement this.
My queries are-
(A) Am I missing something?
(B) According to you what is the smoothest way to navigate through each of these steps? What method have you adopted?
(C) Do you think I should just use SHOPIFY or something? The reason for avoiding Shopify is that it charges too much.
Thank you for your time.
"Do you think I should just use SHOPIFY or something"
Yes. Start out with this, if it takes off => then build something yourself.
Hey hey!
I don't like to be all pushy with products but we're building Mavenseed just for this! https://mavenseed.com
Or you can create a simple website (even on Github) and add a line of code from Gumroad. It's very, very easy.