Thank Steven! SEO is a problem that I never think about. Shopify is really good, but I planned to do more customize and extend in the future, so it isn't my choice.

Keep in mind that it's highly unlikely that any type of extension or method of customization hasn't already been established and tested yet with a SaaS-model e-commerce hosting solution. So, it will be reinventing the wheel without the safeguards. Many of those solutions also give you the ability to build extensions and add-ons for the service as well - which can then become products themselves.

The reason I know, is that - for six years - I was the fifth employee hired at a major e-commerce solution that grew into 75+ employees and a million dollar company.

Sure, creating a inventory system and product catalog would be a nice project, but you also have to go through required steps and thousand dollar evaluations to accept some major credit cards, unless you're paying for a gateway, and that will add to the monthly expenses as well as its own set of rules.

It also needs to be secured and locked down, because if someone purchases a product or service from an engine you write from scratch, you will be personally accountable for anything that isn't done correctly - and some of those things involve serious laws about monetary transactions. and the security of the buyer's information.

With a team of five, it took a good three years for the company to grow into something with serious potential. None of it was based on a JS Framework, the servers needed to be supervised and maintained, backups alone would take over two days to be completed (as the client-base grew), the work that needed to go into the back-end started exceeding the overall intention of the original business model and front-end themes had to stick to a strict structure or it wouldn't work within the systems logic.

And these are the least of the problems they encountered. So, if this is meant to be a project that takes a few months, understand that it will never fit within that timeline.

Also, Reaction is dealing with 300+ issues with critical bugs in the list - and even though it's open-source on Github - their site conflicts with that model since it's all about marketing services and obtaining information so they can become a paid e-commerce hosting solution. That simply leads me to believe that it's not intended for anything other than a service that you can "try to get working on your own with no support", since they seem to have enough problems.

E-Commerce is a notoriously difficult world to enter, so it's best to use something that's been around for a while, is dependable, and offers developers the ability to help it grow through its APIs.

Good luck!

Thank Tiaan! It's good start for me.

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Thank Atul! Totally agreed with you. But I want to build it myself, so I can fully customize, and implement only what I need.