CPNT 265 Day 4 - E-commerce and shopping carts

Housekeeping

• Instructor schedule
  • Mornings: Tony
  • Afternoons: Ash
• New achievement: Pair coding
  • 15 mins toward a shared goal
  • Change seats at least twice
  • Second session paired coding: 5 points

API Troubleshooting

• Anyone need any help with 270-a3?

10:30am - Presentations

• Dave: UX critiques using Figma
• Fesal: Final project dry-run
• Jessica: Battlefield discussion
  • Scheduling application for client

Popular E-commerce Platforms

1. Shopify
   • Video: What you need to know before dropshipping by Wholesale Ted
   • Video: Create a Dropshipping Store with Shopify & Aliexpress by Wholesale Ted
   • Video: 10 Things To Do BEFORE You Start A Print On Demand Store... by Wholesale Ted
2. WooCommerce (with Wordpress)
   • Video: WordPress eCommerce Website Tutorial 2021 by WPTuts
3. Integrating Stripe Checkout or Using Snipcart: A Detailed Comparison

Key Takeaways

• Popular online sales strategies (in the get-rich-quick category)
  • Dropshipping
  • Print-on-Demand
  • Digital downloads
• Most popular shopping cart solutions (currently)
  • Shopify:
    • Great if you want you want a white-labelled store (i.e. one you can brand you own way so no one knows it's a Shopify store).
    • Ties into many handy services such as fulfillment companies, print-on-demand and drop-shippers.
  • Etsy:
    • Great if you want to plug into an existing eco-system of customers.
    • Caters to creators who make hand-made goods.
  • WooCommerce
    • A popular shopping cart plugin for Wordpress
    • Integrates nicely with Elementor
  • SnipCart
    • A shopping cart service for JAMstack websites.
    • There are many competitors and alternatives in the JAMstack E-commerce space so do your research.

Ash/Tony: Project planning for Finals

1. Student roster
   • Where's the data coming from? What info is required?
   • How to allow each student to define their own card as a component?
   • Assuming there's a default card design, how to allow custom cards to override it?
   • What endpoint should it use? /roster or /fall-2021/roster?