54 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 11h \ on: Advice For Bitcoin Online Store? AGORA
It's difficult to separate the conversation about accepting bitcoin payments from a conversation about marketing your products to bitcoiners.
If your family member wants to try to market the product directly at bitcoiners, there is a much stronger incentive sort out accepting bitcoin payments.
Unless they are interested in being technical, they'll have to pay something like zaprite or voltage to help them run the infrastructure.
Btcpay has a great woocommerce plugin, but you still have run btcpayserver somewhere AND a lightning node if you want to accept lightning.
So, my point is that unless they want to try to tap bitcoiners as a market specifically (which may be a great idea), they may end up just frustrated by the trouble/expense of accepting lightning. Because I suspect they will receive very few bitcoin payments from the public at large.
Thanks for your reply. It may turn out to be me doing some experimenting and learning with their product. Maybe now's a good time to try, since from what I understand the frustration level is pretty high on platforms like etsy using fiat right now in trying to make a profit.
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former etsy seller here, the problem isnt with the payments, they have it all integrated and whatnot, it's the increase in fees and increase in Chinese competition dropshipping and print on demand.
it's just harder to make money for legit crafters. this goes back etsy's IPO
if you open up a separate ecom store, there are different options that make it easy to accept lightning and btc, like btc pay server.
you can have that alongside the usual stripe options
if it's btc related products, that would be different, but in each case, you'll need to do actual marketing and outreach and whatnot to build awareness
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I would imagine your family member could find bitcoiners interested in any hand-made product. The only problem is that in the grand scheme of things, there aren't very many bitcoiners. But there might be enough to constitute a significant segment, depending on their product.
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We'll see. It will be an interesting project. At worst I'll learn a few things.
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