I was asked by my sister for advice on building a web e-commerce solution which set me thinking about if I could sell some “merch”. Here are my notes. …
WordPress supports Shopify, or vice versa, who seem happy for you to wrap their functionality in your site.
It seems that 3rd party fulfilment is now called dropshipping. Shopify has a dropshiping page They point me at Oberlo and their dropshipping and mugs pages. It makes me wonder if they auction the fulfilments? (Surely not?)
- Can i prototype this for free?
- Is my investment in Photobox any use? i.e. do they sell through Oberlo.
- Will this fly?
I decided that making the site beautiful was also important, I had assumed that WP themes would be enough, but I found these sites too.
- https://www.shopify.com/blog/11863377-30-beautiful-and-creative-ecommerce-website-designs
- https://platt.edu/blog/top-20-beautiful-websites/
- and of course CSS zen garden, this one Verde Moderna looks cool
- and Theme Forest
Business Model
Have I missed my opportunity? More from Shopify, on how to do it, and an article from Medium on why it’s too late and the margins are shit, although what I want to do is merely low level incremental income. My problem is can I make something that would ship? I am not looking to live on this. I was assuming a higher margin than 5%.
I added the following, “Have I missed my opportunity? More from Shopify, on how to do it, and an article from Medium on why it’s too late and the margins are shit, although what I want to do is merely low level incremental income. My problem is can I make something that would ship? I am not looking to live on this.”