How do I make a store?

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Hi All, This conversation has unfortunately gone WAY over my head. I understand that Sparkle is not an e-commerce platform, but does integrate with e-commerce sites. Currently I sell my books by creating a Sparkle page with a button that links to my publishers page. It adds a step to the process that I would love to avoid. My publisher (Lulu.com) is pushing that I create a “Store” on Woo Commerce, which says it is a Wordpress-based e-commerce site. Has anyone ever dealt with WooCommerce and do you think it might also integrate with Sparkle? Thanks!

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hi

if you have few products you can use ecwid with sparkle or use phpjabbers with sparkle.
Instead if you have many product, I suggest to use Prestashop or Opencart, cms ecommerce native.

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@EONorton, WooCommerce would be total overkill for what you want to do plus you will be using the most hacked e-commerce platform out there! I would avoid using Sparkle and WooCommerce together.

There has been a number of suggestions made here that would easily fit your needs.
Here are a few more that you could embed into Sparkle…

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Thanks @FlaminFig. At this point my publisher only works with a few e-commerce platforms, but I truly don’t see the benefit for me, since I only have a few products and I can link to my publishers store directly from my Sparkle site. It’s been working fine, no need to get more complicated!

Thanks for the advice!

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Lulu looks interesting, it’s a pity they only have bazooka-style ecommerce or link to their site. It would be ideal if they had a simple paypal-like order button. Ah well.