Vlad

I agree with you that Processwire is quite simple and easy to take off with, probably that's one of the main reason I consider using it, because even with my limited knowledge in programming I can get a minimum running product to test it's appeal to the audience. Why I thought about blockchain is mainly due to the payment system, somehow in my logic would build some sort of trust in the platform. But probably i'm thinking too much ahead and should test the idea first, and if it takes off i can implement the payments later.

Some I can imagine would be is: lower transfer fees between the users of the platform, security since they send back and forth sensitive blueprints of products, and lower storage costs. Maybe you're right and I'm just overcomplicating things, but for example when you have international payments the fees are absurd for transferring basically what's bits of info. An internal currency for transferring value would be much faster and cash only when they take it off from the platform. If you implement a Stripe payment you get in the best case scenario with huge volumes 1-2% fee, right? As for beginning 3-4%. The downside now it's the adoption of coins that is pretty low but i can imagine if you offer 2 versions in time users will switch to the cheaper one. Some blockchains run on 0 transaction fee, so that's a huge advantage since your users have transfers of few hundred dollars generally. Also the platform would self sustain and expand together with the number of it's users. For now what's the method, going with Amazon web services?

Hi everyone, I'm quite interested in building a directory platform and Processwire seems like a good choice with plenty of flexibility. I'm more in the concept phase and not going to do myself the coding, but want to understand the limitations of technology for now. With the last developments in the blockchain technology and trend of going towards decentralised apps, I'm more and more attracted by the idea of reducing server costs and dependency through this decentralisation and was wondering if there's any way of adapting Processwire towards something like this. I know blockchains in general have their own language but maybe theres a way of doing it via the IPFS protocol? I'm not a programmer so don't throw with rocks if I ask dumb stuff, just wondering if technically is feasible. Or it has to be developed something from scratch based on emerging blockchains like RChain, Eos, Synereo... where most of the content is stored on the users side. Thanks!

Yeah, this is the problem with many reviews and suggestions on the internet, that they are given from the point of view of the developer. He's not the one that has to do the job of making fluent the shipping, handling customers, orders... On paper might look cool that you have the features but is a whole different thing to make life easier for the owner of the shop. I was attracted also by many Woocommerce articles and the features you can have through plugins. The result is that I spent two weeks trying to make the plugins work properly, have an easy interface, and most of all be reliable. Is enough to have one of the plugins with some bugs and that messes up all your shop. So I just quit and came back to a dedicated solution. For the price they ask like 15-40$/month, I wouldn't think twice.

I'm posting the question in the wrong section or doesn't really anyone have a good picture of both EE and PW? PW looks really good just my worries are specially to the payments manipulation.

I'm quite new here and as you can imagine very attracted by ProcessWire. I'm intending on building a directory website where I have two types of users, more like airbnb if you want a more clear picture. Some make the listings, some pay for having the listings, or the services, while i get a percentage. Initially I was looking at Expression Engine as it had a flexible approach to building your website and then discovered PW. Now my question is, can I build such a directory website with PW where users can transfer money in return of some goods or services from other users? I'd also have to get some recurring payments for their membership later on when I have users. A map implementation is also needed, but I've seen some modules that do the trick. Expression Engine has much more plugins from what I've seen and probably also due to it's bigger community, but anyway PW seems attractive because I can start playing with it without having to buy, as in the case of Expression Engine. Just to mention that I'm a beginner to both of them, so at-least if I invest time in any of them, I want to know that what I need is possible. Thanks in advance!

I don't have any experience to be honest with Processwire, just found about it from a friend. I want to make a directory sort of website where users add content and others view and apply for it. What I had in mind was Expression Engine because had this huge flexibility but then I saw PW and was basically the same principles, but atleast I could play with it without buying the core functions. Anyway, coming back to Ecwid, Macrura is right you have to add the products from the Ecwid interface. So basically you add them and after you can copy two types of code to display them in your website. 1 - is the whole list of products, like a grid style let's say and when you click on one opens up the dedicated page for that product 2. a sort of widget or buy button that is just for one product. Like the Shopify button if you want a comparison. Downside is that you have to edit the appearance of the cart and products from the Ecwid admin page, through custom css. Quite flexible I would say but nevertheless. Good aspect is that you can place this cart interface in 20 websites if you want and have the same admin page. So you can sell on facebook, on your website, on your blog, or pretty much anywhere. You can create a page from PW I suppose for each product and just add the Ecwid button for AddTo Cart. And when the buyer clicks the shop, pops on top of your page. You can also redirect it to a different page if you want to make it look like is integrated well dith the rest of the website. Here is my website if you want an idea. I use it with wordpress, but I created some sort of custom pages for products. You can see it best at the Flio Up details page. I believe can be done easily with PW. Loads a bit slow as I have to restructure but anyway, maybe after holidays. In terms of features they are quite rich as any other big ecommerce. But more importantly is easy to manage your sales. if you start having more than 100 orders/month this becomes annoying and time consuming with woocommerce for example. You can't copy paste properly addresses for labels, can't manipulate or modify orders fast and accurate, 10 plugins to keep track with, is a mess in my opinion. If you focus on handling an ecommerce as a business take a dedicated ecommerce platform like Shopify, Ecwid or even BigCartel, Magento. Saves a ton of time, money and headaches. You can have it for free with up to 10 products. That is really how I used it for 1-2 years just because I didn't need anything, the full features are there. Just recently switched to a paid plan of 15 euro/month to have access to some better SEO and apps.

I think the best full solution is Ecwid. Can be integrated with any CMS or plain html website. You can customise it and make it look as you want. It's also probably the 3rd ecommerce solution in the world as features after shopify and woocommerce. I use it for 2 years and they've improved it a lot. A lot of gateway payments, responsive, flexible, you can build whatever you want to be honest. And is also way cheaper than shopify. Basically the admin side is from their web interface and you just copy paste a code into your page to have the products listed. I tried Woocommerce at some point but is a nightmare with all plugins, bugs and maintenance. https://www.ecwid.com/