How does shipping work? Do you ship to UK? And why do I need an account?
Discussion
Shipping is handled by the shops, we just connect buyers and sellers.
Some of the shops do ship to the UK, in the checkout you can add an address and we will then calculate the shipping costs and availability.
A profile is needed so you just have to add your address ones. Also it helps us suggest relevant products.
Even though the marketplace is already live and functional, I would like to note, that it’s still a wip and we encourage improvement proposals 🤓
Sure, my feedback so far is:
1. If you can, be upfront about delivery options per product so I don't need to add to cart and register in order to find out.
2. Consider a no registration flow, Bitcoiners don't like to see their data such as email, address, name, order history, stored on someone else's servers when they don't need to be. In fact if things like address could be e2e encrypted with the merchant, that would be awesome. Not exactly a standard feature but very common on decentralised and privacy preserving platforms.
Also, different people have different visions of what decentralisation provides. What does it mean to you?
We will implement both ASAP. 💪
(but since we are a very small team it might take us some time)
Please feel welcome to further test and critique. Feedbacks like yours are incredibly helpful, so thank you!🙏
Regarding our vision of decentralization in the retail industry I want to make clear that small-shops.com was purposely designed as a centralized platform (centralization usually is much more efficient). But I hate the fact that retail is getting more and more dominated by big, international players (H&M, Zara, you name it).
This is why we are building a platform only for the small, sustainable ones. You can think of it as some sort of Etsy for small businesses.
Our definition of “small” is in line with the definition of the EU:
1. They must have less than 50 employees and a yearly revenue of less than 10 million €.
Moreover all shops have to be sustainable and we manually check all of them.
Here is how we define sustainability: