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e
Good Morning from the USA! I stumbled upon Solidus and being a former Ruby on Rails dev, my interest i peeked. I'm starting a Coffee roasting business and need an online store a well as a POS for things like Farmer's Markets, Festivals, or any other in person event. Is this something Solidus can handle?
e
absolutely! it is awesome
e
tell me more 🙂
b
Yep. Should be fine.
Hook it up to Stripe Terminal or the like and you've got a great solution.
e
are there doc for integrating?
b
Within Solidus, no.
I assume Stripe Terminal has a webhook? I actually only know of the service. I haven't integrated it in any of my solidus apps yet.
Yeah, it's just a payment intent.
Pretty straightforward looking. Once you have a checkout with payment intents, you'll likely understand how Stripe Payment intents work and at least half of this documentation will make lots of sense.
e
I'll start digging in later this evening
j
I hate to push people away from Solidus, but if you're running a simple roastery, unless there's something you absolutely must be able to do with your ecomm site that is impossible or prohibitively difficult to do with Shopify, you should probably use Shopify.
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(Or something like Shopify)
e
my biggest obstacle is the in person POS
i need the two linked somehow
j
I'm willing to basically guarantee that building a POS+Solidus setup for your roastery will be prohibitively difficult. Solidus stores have done it, but it's no small amount of work, and your efforts are almost certainly better spent elsewhere.
e
🙂 that's all I needed to hear/read
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as much as i'd love to use Solidus, I don't know that is cost effective from a time investment prospective
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b
This reminds me of the old question: Why not Shopify? People often select Solidus as a solution when they require a Ruby on Rails application to be constructed, irregardless of the ecommerce component. Even then, you could hook up the main application to a headless ecommerce solution such as Chord: https://chord.co/.
j
Solidus is great when you need its sheer customizability, or it unlocks the ability to do something that's core to your business that other platforms can't do, or if you're at a scale where the ability to tightly integrate into all your businesses other systems is worth it. Generally for small businesses it's better to choose something off the shelf.
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b
There are also semi-developer friendly ecommerce frameworks that small businesses use. My mother runs a pet store and she loves... Magento.
Therefore, Woocommerce and Magento might be useful from the PHP-verse. I think a lot of people think Solidus is akin to Woocommerce or Magento, but it is not. It is a full developer focused solution.
e
the developer focused piece doesn't scare me
It's the time to ship that I'm constrained on 🙂
b
I would encourage you to build your website on Shopify/Square first and then experiment later if a Ruby on Rails/Solidus solution would make sense for your business.
e
I'll likely timebox an investigation on a Solidus solution
b
Sounds good. I hope you enjoy the experience!
e
i really just have a development itch I want to scratch 🙂
b
I thought so lol
e
Shopify does make the most sense lol
b
I need to find that blog post of a buy who built a store of some sort exclusively on Postgres.
I think it was also a coffee shop. Everything was SQL. I can't find it on the internet.
Post was like 2016 ish
e
thats insane
b
All employees were trained with SQL
j
b
A bakery, thanks Jared!
e
I'll read this here in a bit
b
His follow up post on some more business logic: https://bofh.org.uk/2019/03/04/recursive-sql-recipes/
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