My Recipe for a 0$/month e-commerce Website

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The Ingredients:

• Netlify as a hosting solution (I heard Vercel is just as tasty.)
• Stripe as a payment platform
• FaunaDB as a database (Only needed to keep track of an inventory)
• Svelte and Sapper to build the front-end (Could be replaced with any decent front-end tools that exports to static)
• SendGrid to send email confirmations
• Cloudinary to host images (Optional)

Wanna Taste?

Live demo: https://free-ecommerce.netlify.app/

(Use card `4242 4242 4242 4242` with an expiration date somewhere in the future to go through the whole checkout process.)

Source code: https://github.com/FelDev/free-ecom

Where’s the catch?

Stripe will charge you 2,9 % + 0,30$ on every transaction, but only if you make sales. Fine by me!

For all the other service providers, you’ll notice that they all have a pricing page. But if you look at those pricing pages, you’ll also notice that they all have a very generous free tier. For instance, SendGrid allows you to send 100 emails/day and FaunaDB lets you store up to 5GB, all without a credit card.