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    • robiR Offline
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      robi
      wrote on last edited by robi
      #1

      Hey all, a friend sent me this video of how someone sets up sales of digital goods with PayPal, Gmail and GDrive, which inspired me to see how we can do the same here on Cloudron and develop a few guides.


      Payments

      pick your poison

      • PayPal
      • Stripe
      • Square
      • etc..

      Email

      • Cloudron / Haraka
        • SnappyMail
        • Roundcube
        • SOGo
        • RainLoop

      Storage / Documents

      • OnlyOffice
      • Nextcloud
      • Baserow
      • NocoDB

      Website / Store

      • Wordpress
      • Ghost
      • Surfer
      • Grav
      • Directus

      If I am missing an option, let me know and I'll update the top post.

      If you have something working already, please share a mini guide.

      If you have thoughts on how to combine what we have already, let's go!

      Conscious tech

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      • robiR robi

        Hey all, a friend sent me this video of how someone sets up sales of digital goods with PayPal, Gmail and GDrive, which inspired me to see how we can do the same here on Cloudron and develop a few guides.


        Payments

        pick your poison

        • PayPal
        • Stripe
        • Square
        • etc..

        Email

        • Cloudron / Haraka
          • SnappyMail
          • Roundcube
          • SOGo
          • RainLoop

        Storage / Documents

        • OnlyOffice
        • Nextcloud
        • Baserow
        • NocoDB

        Website / Store

        • Wordpress
        • Ghost
        • Surfer
        • Grav
        • Directus

        If I am missing an option, let me know and I'll update the top post.

        If you have something working already, please share a mini guide.

        If you have thoughts on how to combine what we have already, let's go!

        timconsidineT Offline
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        timconsidine
        App Dev
        wrote on last edited by
        #2

        @robi interesting !
        Ecommerce apps tend to be "fat" so a light-weight solution would be good.

        Stripe has a nice out-of-the-box solution, but I haven't checked it recently. It could take care of a lot of the work, maybe even sending invoices. Must check out the latest functionality they provide.

        I know PayPal is a popular choice and each to their own, but I advise against them. They closed my account because I received a large £5k payment when my normal transactions were £20-£100 each. No discussion, explanation, negotiation, appeal. I strongly caution against them, they are not reliable "partners". Caveat emptor vendor!

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          colonelpanic
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          #3

          I don't sell digital goods, but I do have a side gig printing letterpress business cards, invitations, & stationery. I use InvoiceNinja (integrated with Stripe), Roundcube, Directus (file storage and job info), and a LAMP stack for my website (integrated with Directus).

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          • colonelpanicC colonelpanic

            I don't sell digital goods, but I do have a side gig printing letterpress business cards, invitations, & stationery. I use InvoiceNinja (integrated with Stripe), Roundcube, Directus (file storage and job info), and a LAMP stack for my website (integrated with Directus).

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            wrote on last edited by BrutalBirdie
            #4

            @colonelpanic said in How To Sell Digital Goods with Cloudron:

            printing letterpress business card

            scene from american psycho where he inspects and then drops a businesses card

            Sorry I watched this movie some days ago and had to think of this immediately. 👍

            fun fact: all business cards in the movie have a typo: top right corner should be mergers & acquisition but is misspelled mergeres

            Like my work? Consider donating a drink. Cheers!

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            • colonelpanicC colonelpanic

              I don't sell digital goods, but I do have a side gig printing letterpress business cards, invitations, & stationery. I use InvoiceNinja (integrated with Stripe), Roundcube, Directus (file storage and job info), and a LAMP stack for my website (integrated with Directus).

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              robi
              wrote on last edited by
              #5

              @colonelpanic said in How To Sell Digital Goods with Cloudron:

              I don't sell digital goods, but I do have a side gig printing letterpress business cards, invitations, & stationery. I use InvoiceNinja (integrated with Stripe), Roundcube, Directus (file storage and job info), and a LAMP stack for my website (integrated with Directus).

              It would be great to see a mini guide on all those integrations.

              Conscious tech

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              • robiR robi

                @colonelpanic said in How To Sell Digital Goods with Cloudron:

                I don't sell digital goods, but I do have a side gig printing letterpress business cards, invitations, & stationery. I use InvoiceNinja (integrated with Stripe), Roundcube, Directus (file storage and job info), and a LAMP stack for my website (integrated with Directus).

                It would be great to see a mini guide on all those integrations.

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                ruihildt
                wrote on last edited by
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                I'll soon have to have a book shop, I'll have a look at integrating InvoiceNinja and Directus.

                If you have more info on the technical setup, I'm all ears!

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                • L Offline
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                  LoudLemur
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                  #7

                  @colonelpanic said in How To Sell Digital Goods with Cloudron:

                  I don't sell digital goods, but I do have a side gig printing letterpress business cards, invitations, & stationery. I use InvoiceNinja (integrated with Stripe), Roundcube, Directus (file storage and job info), and a LAMP stack for my website (integrated with Directus).

                  We must be quite close to supporting Odoo on Cloudron now. When that wonderful day arrives, a ton of modules suitable for business will be available:

                  brave_0Pnd3hkFN5.jpg

                  These modules all integrate with each other, and data input in one is pushed to others, to save you work.

                  The eCommerce module is available in the Community Edition. It provides you with a website, store-front, a means to show your wares, and manage payments. Your email can be handled with Odoo too.

                  Odoo's Events module helps you setup things like a conference or online training seminar. The Project module helps you plan the event, with Kanban and even Gantt charts. The Blog module is good to help people stay engaged with your offering and see what is going to happen or has been improving. The Employees Module is a good place to begin, as you assign roles to people within your organization, and their associated reporting structures.

                  Odoo is amazing software, but I offer two caveats, to save trouble: 1) Don't customize the modules, beyond their integrated utilities, as Odoo support kind of gives up on you if you aren't using standard Odoo. 2) Migrating into Odoo is one thing, but migrating out again, if you decide to go to another platform is another.

                  Anyway, Odoo is a great way to naturally fall into a good corporate structure that is efficient and scales well.

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                  • L LoudLemur

                    @colonelpanic said in How To Sell Digital Goods with Cloudron:

                    I don't sell digital goods, but I do have a side gig printing letterpress business cards, invitations, & stationery. I use InvoiceNinja (integrated with Stripe), Roundcube, Directus (file storage and job info), and a LAMP stack for my website (integrated with Directus).

                    We must be quite close to supporting Odoo on Cloudron now. When that wonderful day arrives, a ton of modules suitable for business will be available:

                    brave_0Pnd3hkFN5.jpg

                    These modules all integrate with each other, and data input in one is pushed to others, to save you work.

                    The eCommerce module is available in the Community Edition. It provides you with a website, store-front, a means to show your wares, and manage payments. Your email can be handled with Odoo too.

                    Odoo's Events module helps you setup things like a conference or online training seminar. The Project module helps you plan the event, with Kanban and even Gantt charts. The Blog module is good to help people stay engaged with your offering and see what is going to happen or has been improving. The Employees Module is a good place to begin, as you assign roles to people within your organization, and their associated reporting structures.

                    Odoo is amazing software, but I offer two caveats, to save trouble: 1) Don't customize the modules, beyond their integrated utilities, as Odoo support kind of gives up on you if you aren't using standard Odoo. 2) Migrating into Odoo is one thing, but migrating out again, if you decide to go to another platform is another.

                    Anyway, Odoo is a great way to naturally fall into a good corporate structure that is efficient and scales well.

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                    timconsidine
                    App Dev
                    wrote on last edited by
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                    @LoudLemur said in How To Sell Digital Goods with Cloudron:

                    Migrating into Odoo is one thing, but migrating out again, if you decide to go to another platform is another.

                    This is a critical issue.
                    It's kinda normal for all ERP-type systems.
                    It's also the single biggest reason to NOT use an ERP system.

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                    • timconsidineT timconsidine

                      @LoudLemur said in How To Sell Digital Goods with Cloudron:

                      Migrating into Odoo is one thing, but migrating out again, if you decide to go to another platform is another.

                      This is a critical issue.
                      It's kinda normal for all ERP-type systems.
                      It's also the single biggest reason to NOT use an ERP system.

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                      LoudLemur
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #9

                      @timconsidine I agree. In the case of Odoo, I think if you migrated out of the platform, your data might be in bad shape, on the other hand, your organization's structure would probably be in good shape.

                      I am still surprised how slow to change Odoo is in some regards, despite having a Free Software community supporting it. For example, crypto has been around for a considerable while now, and you would think that their eCommerce suite would include crypto payments as an option.

                      Anyway, I hope you are all doing well @timconsidine .

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                      • L LoudLemur

                        @timconsidine I agree. In the case of Odoo, I think if you migrated out of the platform, your data might be in bad shape, on the other hand, your organization's structure would probably be in good shape.

                        I am still surprised how slow to change Odoo is in some regards, despite having a Free Software community supporting it. For example, crypto has been around for a considerable while now, and you would think that their eCommerce suite would include crypto payments as an option.

                        Anyway, I hope you are all doing well @timconsidine .

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                        wrote on last edited by
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                        @LoudLemur said in How To Sell Digital Goods with Cloudron:

                        Anyway, I hope you are all doing well @timconsidine .

                        👍 thank you

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