E-Commerce & Publishing Platforms
Plenty of businesses sell things and also need to receive things — manuscripts, applications, submissions. Standard e-commerce platforms are excellent at the first half and treat the second as a contact form. When both sides matter, it is worth building something that respects both audiences.
Who this is for
- Independent publishers selling a catalogue and receiving manuscripts
- Nonprofits selling books, merchandise or resources alongside donations
- Sellers whose catalogue has structure a generic store template flattens
What it includes
Storefront and catalogue
Products with the structure your catalogue actually has.
Submission pipelines
A real intake process for manuscripts or applications, with state — not an inbox.
Stripe payments
Checkout, and the order records behind it.
Profiles and merchandising
Author or maker profiles that give the catalogue a human face, plus merchandise alongside the main line.
Platforms we've shipped
Not a capability list — these are live, and you can visit them.
Common questions
Why not Shopify?
For a straightforward store, Shopify is usually the right answer and I will tell you so. Custom earns its place when the catalogue has unusual structure, when the store is one part of a larger platform, or when you need a real submission workflow alongside it.
Tell me what you're trying to build
If a smaller off-the-shelf tool would serve you better, I'll say so.
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