I’m looking for a (preferrably) self-hostable, FLOSS web-shop application that is easy for end-users to use (WYSIWYG, no need for script languages necessary, etc). Any hints are much appreciated.
You can start by checking out the e-commerce list on awesome selfhosted. At a glance there are multiple which seem to be easy to set up, and require no code, so you should take a deeper look and decide based on your needs.
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#e-commerce
If you find something there that suits your needs make sure to let us know why you chose it :)
oooh, i almost forgot about the sacred list! thanks for the reminder, looks like there’s quite a bunch out there!
this is more a preliminary search and the result will not be used directly - but i’ll try and come back with information on choice and the reasoning behind it
Wordpress + Woocomerce.
I’ve used OpenCart before. It’s a bit sluggish, but gets the job done.
Are you installing this for someone else?
yes, this will not be used by myself directly
As someone who has done e-commerce development and supports FLOSS and self-hosting, this is something I would outsource.
It’s complex, and you can’t really handle payments yourself anyway. That requires certification.
And people really don’t like it when their e-commerce is down and may able to quantify lost business due to an outage or bug in dollars or sense. It doesn’t feel great to realize something on your end resulted in hundreds of dollars of lost business.
If the business is very small, places like Shopify have cheap starter tiers.
