Shops and makers

A shop that sells six things does not need a warehouse system. It needs a page that takes money.

Products, and the three kinds of them

Physical products ship. Digital products deliver a file after payment. Subscriptions renew. All three are the same object with a different capability attached, so a shop that sells a mug, a PDF pattern and a monthly box is one catalogue, not three systems.

One cart, two kinds of thing

The cart products go into is the same cart that takes event tickets. Somebody buying a workshop place and the book that goes with it checks out once.

Payment

Checkout is hosted by the provider, Mollie or Stripe, so card details never touch the site. The order moves through its own lifecycle, and what comes back to you is a paid order with its lines, not a notification you have to interpret.

What you write around it

The parts of a shop that sell are the parts a product feed cannot generate: why this glaze, how long the wait is, what happens if it arrives broken. Those are ordinary blocks on an ordinary page, next to the product list.