I have had a request from a potential client to build a site for her jewelry business.
She needs to sell her handmade jewelry online but every piece is unique so once it has sold she will replace it with another piece.
She needs to be able to replace each item herself as she sells one, so I guess I will need some form of CMS as well as the “shop”
This will be my first ecommerce site so your advice would be very much appreciated. I have heard of mals but have no experience of it. Is it easy to build the site? etc etc. Do you build the site in Freeway and “add” Mals or how does it work. I am experienced with Freeway and I using v5.4.2
One other point; she does not want to offer PayPal as she is setting herself up as a credit/debit card merchant.
As much as you might want to do all this through Freeway, this type of
problem is a very neat fit for BigCartel, Etsy, or Shopify, all of
which offer considerable customization (where you might still get your
design chops into gear) but which allow an unskilled client to do
single-item sales like this with a high degree of security and visual
style, all for a fairly reasonable nick off the sales price. Doing it
yourself will require a CMS to be sure, but also a back-end store
system that can deal with individual items for sale. This is 180° away
from the usual store, where there are SKUs with stock > 1, and
everything is geared around creating a product and then selling a
bajillion of them. Etsy in particular would be great for this, since
it caters directly to the craft market, where everything is unique.
Walter
On Jun 11, 2010, at 6:56 AM, MarkSmith wrote:
Hi Everyone
I have had a request from a potential client to build a site for her
jewelry business.
She needs to sell her handmade jewelry online but every piece is
unique so once it has sold she will replace it with another piece.
She needs to be able to replace each item herself as she sells one,
so I guess I will need some form of CMS as well as the “shop”
This will be my first ecommerce site so your advice would be very
much appreciated. I have heard of mals but have no experience of it.
Is it easy to build the site? etc etc. Do you build the site in
Freeway and “add” Mals or how does it work. I am experienced with
Freeway and I using v5.4.2
One other point; she does not want to offer PayPal as she is setting
herself up as a credit/debit card merchant.
Julie
On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
As much as you might want to do all this through Freeway, this type of problem is a very neat fit for BigCartel, Etsy, or Shopify, all of which offer considerable customization (where you might still get your design chops into gear) but which allow an unskilled client to do single-item sales like this with a high degree of security and visual style, all for a fairly reasonable nick off the sales price. Doing it yourself will require a CMS to be sure, but also a back-end store system that can deal with individual items for sale. This is 180° away from the usual store, where there are SKUs with stock > 1, and everything is geared around creating a product and then selling a bajillion of them. Etsy in particular would be great for this, since it caters directly to the craft market, where everything is unique.
Walter
On Jun 11, 2010, at 6:56 AM, MarkSmith wrote:
Hi Everyone
I have had a request from a potential client to build a site for her jewelry business.
She needs to sell her handmade jewelry online but every piece is unique so once it has sold she will replace it with another piece.
She needs to be able to replace each item herself as she sells one, so I guess I will need some form of CMS as well as the “shop”
This will be my first ecommerce site so your advice would be very much appreciated. I have heard of mals but have no experience of it. Is it easy to build the site? etc etc. Do you build the site in Freeway and “add” Mals or how does it work. I am experienced with Freeway and I using v5.4.2
One other point; she does not want to offer PayPal as she is setting herself up as a credit/debit card merchant.