E-commerce Episode

John: Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design.

• John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.
• JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer.

What is e-commerce?

Build vs. Buy (roll your own vs. e-commerce software)

Nitty-Gritty

• How to model purchases
• Model Payments
• How to test payments
• Gotchas when building e-commerce
• Discounts
• Sales
• Coupons
• Refunds
• Inventory vs digital goods
• Headless vs “full stack”

Stacks / Services

Inventory and More (full stack)

• Shopify
• BigCommerce
• Magneto
• Solidus
• Spree

Simple / digital only

• Instagram + Paypal
• Gum road

Saas Solutions

• Stripe Checkout
• Paddle
• Fast Spring
• Chargify
• https://recurly.com/

Picks

• JP: https://hotwire.dev/ (hehe)
• John: https://linear.app/

References

• Acts as shoping cart gem
• Pay gem
• Foundation

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