This is super cool! I can imagine a million use cases and a million feature requests to go along with it. What will you guys be focusing on? What's on the roadmap coming up?
@ronradu Thanks!
Next up where focusing on preorder + subscription support, as well as integration 3 party providers such as TaxJar, ShipStation, Printful, etc and more payment gateways.
Stay tuned for our Extend SDK
beautiful designs and seems like a sleek product, however 3% plus payment (usually 2-2.9% for cc) is a bit lavish. The developer in me wants to give it a go but I know no startup with a decent volume would sign a constant 0.5-1% off every sale to a new platform that easily. Hope you guys reconsider your pricing, Id like to see this a hit.
@adhambad Thanks for the kind words. We have 2 monthly plans which offer 1% per transaction & 0.5% per transaction. We're also planning on releasing a 0% transaction fee at a later date. Trying to get revenue in quickly since we're currently bootstrapping everything :)
What we we like about our standard plan is the fact it lets you try out the platform without any upfront costs and our success is dependent on your success i.e. when you make money, we make money.
The 2/3%, 1%, and 0.5% options are pretty common in the eCommerce space - for example shopify's plans are
$29 + 2% per transaction
$79 + 1% per transaction
$299 + 0.5% per transaction
Hopefully we can drop our pricing when we see more $ moving through the platform, but at this stage we have to keep it where it currently is.
Wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts on alternative pricing models you'd like to see.
Thanks again!
@devankoshal thanks for taking up on me, I get the price modelling from your point of view :)
but i've been there with a lot of startups at the stage to choose the right platform to sell their products and I know how the pros and cons weighing go on with this decision, which as a cto you'll have to live with and defend for long! my honest opinion :
- any company who can afford 300$ license per month will not happily sign off another 0.5% next to the payment fees. I've seen them all as they grow, everyone exhaustingly negotiates every 0.1% with their payment provider as it really hurts revenue once the numbers go up, growth startups will always prefer fixed costs over scaling ones. Which makes using your platform has a hight potential to migrate later;
- Im happy to hear you're changing the price model once cash flows in, however migrating the shopping infrastructure midways is a killer for companies; therefore experienced people happily take a good deal knowing it works for them the next 2-3 years than gambling on such an important piece of infrastructure.
- I never used Shopify, but what i understood their 2% is including the payment gateway and yours not. Even if its not the case, my honest evaluation before even reading your comment you have to be at least half shopify's price since they have double the experience (im sure you guys are great devs, but experience in ecommerce not so uncommon ecommrece problems is invaluable).
you'll need patience from your first users of course till you get there, however the arguments to move in given all the available "relatively maturer" platforms (magento, opencart, moltin, keystone, simplecart) given the price are not that attractive.
Im not a biz dev guy to give you a constructive price modelling suggestion, im just letting you in on my thoughts as a customer. Hope the insight is useful!
@shrutikaushikit We're more of an api based/cloud competitor to those platforms. Unlike woocommerce we work on can work on any CMS and you don't have to deal with Wordpress's backend admin, and we're quicker to integrate than Magento (you're not making an existing codebase work around your website)
You can get an idea of how easily it fits around your code here - https://gist.github.com/dvnkshl/... :)
@devankoshal I see. Seems pretty cool. I'll take a better look in a while. :)
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Does this support Apple Pay? Also, a wizard setup would be nice, making it easier for designers than developers, as it stands. Really awesome work here, congrats!
@andreioprisan Not yet, but we're working on it. We've were actually hoping to have a wizard setup and ready to go for this release, but didn't want to hold the release back any longer. Thanks for the kind words!
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Great work guys! This looks amazing. Can't wait to get a site up and running on this API
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