A small craft business owner tested building an ordering site with Lovable and liked the tool, but is considering simpler alternatives for order handling.

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        "author": "Fragrant_Bottle_8298",
        "excerpt": "BigCartel is probably your best bet for this, especially since you're mostly dealing with bank transfers and cash on delivery. The platform is simple enough that you won't lose your mind trying to set it up, and the $15 plan should cover what you need without all the bloat Shopify forces on you\n\n Lovable is fine if you want more control over the look, but unless you enjoy tinkering with site build",
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        "author": "HoneyedVices",
        "excerpt": "since you're already in zoho books, look at zoho commerce before either of those. it lets customers pick case on delivery or bank transfer at checkout, and orders flow straight into books so you're not re-entering sale by hand. with a lovable site you're the one fixing it every time something breaks",
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      "[post] I then tried building my own site in Lovable which I liked, but now I've also heard of BigCartel and their Platinum plan is $15 USD a month and seems pretty much like what I needed."
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    "post_text": "I have a small craft business that is mostly Instagram based, and I sell items that I make, like stickers, hair scrunchies, shirts etc. Most of my customers come from Instagram, or from my weekly booths at local farmers markets.\n\nRight now, if someone wants to order from me, I have a pinned Instagram post that acts as a catalogue with photos and prices of all of my items, so they'd see that and then DM me either on Instagram or WhatsApp to place an order. However, it's *very* tedious to have to delete and reupload this post every time I need to update product info. I also really want to streamline this process and have it go through either a website or platform where all of the orders are recorded and I don't necessarily have to personally reply to every single order and then manually enter it into my sales records. If it's something that I can integrate with Zoho Books (that I use for my invoices and expenses) and Loyverse (that I use for tracking stock), even better.\n\nI don't need a \"full\" website right now, just something that I can advertise on my social media that allows me to upload products and a little writeup, and can act as a catalogue and receive orders.\n\nA really important feature as well is that I'd love it to be a platform that allows the customer's payment option to be bank transfers or cash on delivery/collection. I live in the Caribbean and ecommerce here is...",
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