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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Weekend Warrior project returns! $9 shopping cart: material.com


When first setting up a website for ecommerce, there is a natural trend to spend hours on end designing, formatting, laying out, and so on. Today though, I tried a "Beta" version of a site called Material, and have never been more impressed in such a short time. I like to locate sites like this through Stripe's integration page: https://stripe.com/works-with

Pro's
In less than 30 minutes, I had the entire site layout done with 5 products added to the site, which met the free store maximum. The layout editor & theme selector was very simple, adding products was one page with 4 lines, and setup on the back end with payments and shipping took less than 2 minutes. Overall it is the most simple webstore builder I have ever seen.

Con's:
There are a few lacking features, such as the ability to charge extra per item for shipping, and only accepting Stripe payments. There is only a flat rate and free shipping model, but this is not a huge deal for someone like me that can ship 3-5 items for slightly more than 1.

I have not experienced the full monty of the store since I only used the free account, though I am tempted to change that in the coming week just to see what options I have.

Keep in mind, Material.com is still a beta site. They will make many changes based on feedback from users.
Check out 30 minutes of work:
https://Video-Warehouse.mymaterial.com


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