enthusiast14's avatar

Best Laravel ecommerce package to sell digital products

I want to sell digital products like web apps/software from a Laravel ecommerce website. What are the best free packages available for this purpose by which I can integrate PayPal, credit card, paddle, and other payment processors so that my buyers can pay for the product and get access to downloads ??

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Tray2's avatar

Bulding an e-commerce site is very complicated and if you aren't very well versed with how to build laravel applications I strongly advice against trying to build it yourself. You should instead take a look at using some prebuilt ones.

https://gumroad.com/

https://www.shopify.com/

If you still feel the need to build it yourself you should read up on Laravel Cashier which supports both Paddle and Stripe payments.

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/billing

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/cashier-paddle

Then there are loads of other third party plugins to handle other payment methods like paypal.

https://packagist.org/?query=laravel%20paypal&tags=paypal~laravel

enthusiast14's avatar

@tray2 thanks for your reply

I want something in Laravel because i am expert in it. Does cashier-paddle supports other payment method integration like paypal, stripe, etc and it has cart->checkout system?

actually i was searching any laravel ecommerce package where cart->checkout system exists and i can integrate other payment methods like paypal, paddle, etc. I searched google and got a first one https://bagisto.com/en/ , so how about these ecommerce packages which can satisfy my requirements?

automica's avatar

free is a fallacy when it comes to e-commerce.

what you save in $ will cost you in time and in my experience I'd rather save the stress and time of developing a bespoke e-commerce platform by renting a shopify instance and letting them deal with managing uptime.

Do some maths to work out how much time you are expecting to take to develop your software and how much ongoing support it needs. Then work out what $ cost this would be if you x your chargeable rate.

if you do the same for shopify I would be surprised if your bespoke solution comes out cheaper.

I put this together for one of our clients for pricing up shopify. https://brightstorm.co.uk/shopify/

Once you can outgrow an off the shelf solution then thats when I would reach for a custom solution.

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