Probably time I close my Etsy shop... I say as they want me to pay another monthly fee for my listings while I've have zero sales in months.
As everything is digital stuff anyway, I'm sure there are much better options for selling such things. Kofi looked good last time I checked.
I've not been actively working on the project so it's my own fault there are no sales. But continuing to pay a fee at this stage seems pointless.
@sarajw aha yeah - it's not a place I want to shop from any more, not been for a while.
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@andycarolan Awesome! thanks āŗļø I'm not ready to get going with it quite yet, but it does look like a great fit for what I'm after.
Does it provide a way to let folks "add to basket" or "checkout" from my own website? or does it only work (or is better suited) to get folks onto the ko-fi page and all the items/checkout handling is done their?
Only other eCommerce platform I'm familiar with is Snipcart - but I don't mind either way tbh, it's not like I could do that with Etsy š
@hejchristian It only really works via itās own platformā¦ it does have a creator kit that contains buttons and brand assets https://more.ko-fi.com/brand-assets
It has a really great discord community too.
@andycarolan Nice, the gifs they supply are so cute š¤©
I did some more digging after asking last night and found this 3rd party option, if I had really wanted to get some integration with my own site.
Not sure I will, but it's pretty neat there is an option.
also they have a way to add a tip-widget:
https://help.ko-fi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018381678-Ko-fi-tip-widget
@jake4480 aha yeah, it's not always the same fee but it's based on when listing expire? I think every 4 months or so - and you needn't have listing auto-renew either but then it's just a pain to keep setting them again (and at that point I'd have to pay anyway)
Between that, it becoming flooded with drop-shipping over handmade, folks flouting the "no copyright material" rule, and now AI slop? I'm like nahhhh, I'm out lol.
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