I used wordpress (with woocommerce plugin) to build a website for my wife's business, selling a dozen or so products, intergrated with online payment (paypal initally for credit/debit card, even without a paypal account - will change to another processing firm when it starts taking a reasonable number of online payments).
I'm not a web developer/code monkey, but had some experience maintaining an existing wordpress site - updating versions, adding content, etc.
It was fairly straight forward to build a site from scratch. Just need a decent wordpress theme and a few plugins. Once it's up, adding products is easy enough.
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Previously on "Simple to use website engine for listing and selling crafty goods"
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Once you have somewhere to sell, then you can put things on places like Craftjuice (run by a friend of mine) to advertise them for free - but you need a link to where to buy things.
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If you can deal with the hassle of pricks returning everything that they buy because they don't understand the concept of "hand-made", and you fit the right profile, you could also try Not On The High Street, but you'd need some kind of website as well to show what you can do.
And they are very picky about what they take. They will also ALWAYS side with the customer - a friend had £150 worth of hand-made cards returned because the customer didn't like the design. The same design that is on the website and they knew when they ordered them. If they were mass produced, then you could handle it, but to have spent a week busting your arse making them all by hand only to have them returned isn't nice.
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Originally posted by TestMangler View PostLook at cubecart then, as stated above :-)
If you register with a marketplace, then at least you might be able to get traffic to your stuff through their search engine.
I'd still recommend having your own site as well (and if you can sell through there as well then fantastic), but you need somewhere that people can find you easily like Etsy / Folksy / MISI / Artfire (OK, maybe not the last two).
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Originally posted by eek View PostNope which is why I need to find something. Its not what I do and as I have no interest in small scale standard websites or facebook I just want options. Something that allows her to upload an image from her phone, add a small amount of text and attach a buy button would be perfect but I don't have a clue where to begin looking.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostHas she already got any kind of web presence, would be interested to see what she does (PM if you prefer)?
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostHave a look at Folksy - it's a UK-run site rather than an American one. My wife has been selling on both for quite a few years now.
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Has she already got any kind of web presence, would be interested to see what she does (PM if you prefer)?
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostI would as well.
I only found the Etsy site a couple of months ago but have bought quite a bit off it now. Some great stuff. Last purchase was some cufflinks made from watch innards. Bloody great they are and always attract comments. Some great stuff on there.
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostI'd bet on it being Etsy.
I only found the Etsy site a couple of months ago but have bought quite a bit off it now. Some great stuff. Last purchase was some cufflinks made from watch innards. Bloody great they are and always attract comments. Some great stuff on there.
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Cubecart. Starter version is free. Piss easy to install and add products. If you want a hosted solution, pm me :-)
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If she wants her own website, WP is good.
The wife bought a piece of bespoke jewellery from some bespoke-craft-eBay site in the US, I can ask who it was?
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Simple to use website engine for listing and selling crafty goods
Those reading TPD they will know mrs eek has given up her job to make craft items all the time.
So she needs a web presence that is easy to use and doesn't require a large amount of my time to set up.
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