We built an open source free to start sales page using Astro, Solidjs, Stripe Checkout (payment processing), Supabase (store the order information for fulfillment), and hosted on Cloudflare pages. The only expense at launch is when processing a successful payment you have to pay the stripe processing fees.
Motivation was to create a site primarily with open source tools (we try to be open-source first!) where we could sell a relatively low-margin product without a lot of overhead costs that come with some of the big name providers - shopify ($40/month), Squarespace ($23/month). Plus the whole thing was a great project to learn from.
You can check out a sample site here https://showhn.cat-test-codes.pages.dev/ You can go through the end to end process to see how the customer experience is. If you wish to submit a test payment to stripe information on test card info can be found here: https://stripe.com/docs/testing
If you happen to be in the market for a California Achievement Test (CAT) you can help support us by making a purchase on our live version of the site https://cat.datagrove.com/
This is one of my first real working projects so really looking forward to some discussion!
CAT achievement tests are generally considered the easiest to administer for home schooling families they don’t have any requirements for the administrator so they can be given by the parent/homeschool leader. They are widely accepted in states that require achievement testing for homeschooling. Additionally they have an untimed online version that makes it a great fit for easy fulfillment and many homeschoolers have shared that the untimed version helps their students who may have some test anxiety. So it seemed like a good place to start - would be open to recommendations on more tests that might be desired by the community.
I think the next step for the development side would be expanding to additional CAT test options. The CAT can be offered in a timed format as well and the untimed one and also in paper form if students/administrators prefer. Some customers have expressed wanting to purchase just the test without the practice test which can also be an option, but the code will need to be modified to support these types of additional options. After that we may consider expanding to more test or other relevant products - definitely open to suggestions for products!
Motivation was to create a site primarily with open source tools (we try to be open-source first!) where we could sell a relatively low-margin product without a lot of overhead costs that come with some of the big name providers - shopify ($40/month), Squarespace ($23/month). Plus the whole thing was a great project to learn from.
You can check out a sample site here https://showhn.cat-test-codes.pages.dev/ You can go through the end to end process to see how the customer experience is. If you wish to submit a test payment to stripe information on test card info can be found here: https://stripe.com/docs/testing
If you happen to be in the market for a California Achievement Test (CAT) you can help support us by making a purchase on our live version of the site https://cat.datagrove.com/
This is one of my first real working projects so really looking forward to some discussion!