AJSturrock

Hey all, Adam here - founder of Order Legend. Great to see you stumble across our app! :) Let me know if you have any questions, happy to help!

Looks super simple and nice to use, great for those working with the JAMstack building a custom experience! What are your plans for this going forward?

I’ve had some space and time to reflect since moving on from Moltin (headless commerce platform & API recently acquired by Elastic Path). I recently wrote an article where I shared some of my observations and learnings over the past 7 years and layout where I see the future landscape of eCommerce and headless converging 2-5 years from now. It seems to have struck a chord with other thought leaders on Linkedin over the past few days so thought others might find it useful here. I think there may be some takeaways for everyone in the commerce/headless space that reads this, whether you're an online retailer/brand evaluating software solutions, an analyst, consultant or developer, a headless commerce platform delivering services or even more broadly in the software space.

Hey! one of the founders at Moltin here. Thanks for the mention @blackdogie, always a nice surprise to stumble across! Coredna looks interesting (nice explainer video!).

@jsntrmn we often see the need to de-risk technology choices for decision makers at larger retailers which can sometimes be in conflict to what a developer looks for when selecting a tool or service. We're trying to get the right balance at moltin as we think both voices need to be at the table.

Happy to chat with either of you if you would like to share learnings/experience or if I can help in any way, just drop me a message [email protected]

If you want a basic site quickly, then going with a platform like WooCommerce and an off-the-shelf theme may work well for you. Once you start customising themes and adding advanced functionality, complicated folder structures and functional programming styles can cause no end of problems for many developers.

API based means you’re not locked into a specific CMS or blog platform, you’re not even locked into a specific language or device. All we care about is data transfer and logic, leaving you free to do anything with the frontend.

If you want to know more about what our platform provides apart from rapid development, we’ve touched on them in our other comments.

There’s two reasons behind the way we’ve structured our pricing:

Firstly you can very easily circumvent our checkout flow as we don’t lock you into using the entire system, we could therefore be supporting a large store and never receive a payment.

Secondly we see transaction fees as penalising you for selling well. It’s tough to push a product when gateways already charge for payments. A combined total of 5%+ for every order would be difficult for store owners to swallow.

We decided that offering a free tier and flat monthly fees for our paid users would be more acceptable. As a user you know exactly what you will be charged for each month.

Thanks for the feedback though, we’ll see what we can do to explain API requests and storage better.