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Iteration Podcast

All About eCommerce Development πŸ€‘

E-commerce Episode

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

  • John Intro β€” My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.
  • JP Intro β€”Β 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 β€œfull stack”

Stacks / Services

Inventory and More (full stack)

  • Shopify
  • BigCommerce
  • Magneto
  • Solidus
  • Spree

Simple / digital only

  • Instagram + Paypal
  • Gum road

Saas Solutions

Picks

References

Episode source