flatmarket

Nice, but there are better options. Use flatmarket: https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket The guy developing it was even nice enough to set up a heroku button; can be run for free: https://github.com/christophercliff/heroku-stripe-checkout You'll still incur stripe charges, but no extra 2 percent.

I agree that the value of this is not perfectly clear, considering what the Stripe dashboard, and Stripe Billing specifically, offer. I've been wondering for a while what are good Stripe Checkout backend solutions for static / "server-less" sites? I've been deploying many micro static sites recently (using surge.sh -- plugging them as they're awesome) and whenever I wanted to add a Stripe Checkout JS integration, I was back at the problem of "what to do with the backend". I usually end up writing a micro Python service, hosted on Heroku, that accepts a SKU, charges the Stripe token, and returns a (CORS-busting) json success/error payload. I've seen flatmarket [1] which also exists in a deploy-to-Heroku-in-a-click version [2] but I remember having problems with it, and it doesn't look like it has been recently updated. It almost does what

I maintain a small open source library for managing payments websites that uses this architecture [1]. My Lambda costs have been about $0.04 per transaction. Also you can provision AWS from the browser using a CloudFormation template and a Launch Stack URL [2]. [1]: https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket. [2]: https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket#automated-dep...

I developed a static site generator for e-commerce called Flatmarket: https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket It lacks some of the features you'd get with a dedicated backend service but it's truly static and costs about $0.004/transaction on AWS Lambda (not including Stripe's take).

Perch is a fantastic solution for both content and commerce sites: https://grabaperch.com there's also Flatmarket which I've been meaning to recommend for someone else to try: https://christophercliff.com/flatmarket/ https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket Most websites I make for people I make with Wordpress or Ghost because the client likes them. My own site is static html — I wrote the current version by hand, but I have since made a rudimentary Perl script to quicken the process.