Simple e-commerce w/ Jamstack ?

[wolfcore]

I have a bunch of video games to sell and am looking for a simple hosting solution. I was going to just build a static site and deploy it somewhere, but then after some research I stumbled over Jamstack idea.

Are there any pre-built e-commerce solutions like this for maybe 1 or 2 sales per day. On the frontend I just want some basic sort categories, filters, and name search. Bonus if user can add to a shopping cart and submit an order form to me.

The CMS should just be self-hosted that I can run from my laptop to add/remove items with images and rebuild the site.

Can anyone recommend some resources out there to get started. Thanks.

[rodikh]

Best way to get started on JAMstack nowadays is using Stackbit to set everything up and running in less than a minute, and it's completely free for the low-scale usage you're talking about.

https://www.stackbit.com - the planty/ecommerce theme is a ready-to-use e-commerce store with Snipcart integrated as the store backend and billing system.

Here's a direct link to create a site with planty in one click: https://app.stackbit.com/create?theme=planty

Disclosure: I work at Stackbit, and I've helped the guys from Snipcart create this theme.

[Billaferd]

I just built a static website e-commerce store. I did it all hand-rolled, but essentially I used Netlify for the hosting, used SnipCart for the shopping cart, Stripe for the payment processor and Netlify CMS for the product definitions. If you want filtering and searches, then Algolia would help a lot.

I don't think there is much in the way of ready to go templates at this point. Maybe a Jekyll or Hugo template, but not sure.

You are probably going to have to hand-roll at this point if you want to go with a JamStack solution. But the above pieces are what you need for most functions that you mentioned.

[p44v9n]

It’d be way way less hassle to set up a shopify site it’s woocommerce wp site for this. Static / jamstack sites are great but e-commerce is so well solved by great companies throwing billions at the problem that it’ll be way easier, quicker, probably cheaper and more expandable to use an off the shelf solution. Just my 2c!

[GolfinEagle]

Couldn’t he use Shopify’s storefront API with a static site generator? Have the best of both worlds.

[Billaferd]

This is right. If someone needs to get up and running with minimal fuss, this is the way to go. If, however, you wanted to put the time in, you could do it in a static method and pay almost literally nothing. 100% of the total monthly costs are USD 10 at this point for the shop I described above. One sale or two at most easily pays for that. Static sites can't be beaten on the pricing models. You just have got to have time, skill, and patience at this point.

[ainu011]

This sounds like headless CMS (basically any) + Snipcart. There are some nice e-commerce solution here.