Don't know in what way to create e-commerce website. Please help
Posted by Clear_Exit_4162@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Hello, I want to create a modern e-commerce website for my company but don't know how. I already had a website with Wordpress and WooCommerce but I don't like it because it is not modern, slow and not safe. I have a quite big product catalog so I cannot use Shopify, as everyone says so, because there are many limitations like 3 options and 100 variants. I also don't want it to be very expensive to get live and maintain, like Shopify, adding plugins with a pricy subscription and also get 4% from my sales (2% from payment processor + 2% from Shopify). Should I use plain code or any framework like Svelte, and if yes, how? Does anyone have a recommendation? Any help is much appreciated! Thanks!
Worried_Baseball8433@reddit
One option I came across while looking into this is Zopping haven't used it personally but it keeps coming up as an alternative for stores with larger catalogs. Might be worth a look alongside the others being mentioned here. Would be interested to hear if anyone has actually built on it.
shujaurrahman_@reddit
Hey, I’ve worked on 30+ websites as a freelancer.
and working as software developer Remotely for 61FZCO Dubai
Portfolio: https://shujaurrahman.com
Recently built:
https://61saga.com/
https://61gler.com/
https://asarfragrances.com/
aqua_regis@reddit
DO NOT ROLL YOUR OWN ECOMMERCE SITE!
Get a pre-configured one. You have to pay for their services, compliance, and security.
Rolling your own is financial and legal suicide unless you have a team of experienced developers with legal and fiscal advisors.
BrownestSamurai@reddit
How do I get a preconfigured one?
aqua_regis@reddit
Did you even google?
and countless others.
Trick_Scene_4357@reddit
Look for WizCommerce.com
Virtual_Sample6951@reddit
you can try react with stripe integration, way cheaper than shopify fees and handles big catalogs without issues 🔥 just need good hosting like vercel or netlify for frontend part 😂
desrtfx@reddit
How many real world, commercial projects with full security, fiscal, and legal compliance have you done? How familiar are you with GDPR and the regional equivalents?
What you suggest is legal and fiscal suicide without a proper, experienced team.
You are in your third year of Uni and in no way qualified to make such suggestions.
Interesting_Dog_761@reddit
That won't stop people from having opinions and cosplaying as an expert.
ainu011@reddit
If you have coding skills, check Crystallize headless commerce and PIM; it's ideal for creating many products with variants. Can be done with any framework.
Shoddy_Setting_8516@reddit
Use something like Medusa, which gives you all of the pre-built commerce logic and a full React-based commerce Admin to control your store.
It has a framework based architecture, so it works very well with agentic tools like Cursor, Claude Code etc. and even have an MCP server you can plug right into as you build: https://github.com/medusajs/medusa-claude-plugins
Best of luck with the project!
Biplab_Hyperce@reddit
I’d recommend AI-native headless commerce for this use case. It removes Shopify/Woo limits, handles large catalogs easily, and is faster + more secure.
If you want to know how this works in practice, I’ve DM’d you.
Lonely_Ad_7282@reddit
i’d go with a headless solution (e.g. Medusa, Saleor or Commerce.js) and hook it up to a modern front‑end like sveltekit/next – you get the speed and flexibility without the shopify fees, and you only need to maintain the API + your UI. building a full shop from scratch in plain code is a huge time sink unless you’ve got a dev team ready to handle payments, security, and inventory logic.
0x14f@reddit
Um.... You know... maybe you should hire a software developer to do that...