Open Bitcoin Store: Free bitcoin online stores

[fwho]

Im working on a openCart store or two, but I might try this out. Seems pretty cool.

[aantonop]

Update: 68 stores completed and online. More every day.

Have an idea? Launch a store to sell it in under a minute. No cost, no credit cards, no technical skills needed.

Instructions: openbitcoinstore.com
Launch here: apply.openbtcshop.com

[aantonop]

We passed 100 free stores launched some time last week, in our first month of operation.

Some of the are succeeding and look amazing. Some have failed to get beyond the launch. That's ok, the whole point of openbitcoinstore is that you can try without cost or risk!

Do you have an idea that could allow you to earn bitcoin instead of buying bitcoin? Now you can try that idea.

Openbitcoinstore.com, it's free, it's easy, it take 30 seconds from idea to store.

[BkkCoins]

Will try this out later this month for selling Klondike boards/kits. Thanks!

[aantonop]

Quick Update: 128 stores...

New features:

* Custom domain
* SSL certificates

Coming Soon:

* Electrum MPK addresses, for direct payment
* Auction support

[Cranky4u]

*Like*

[BkkCoins]

Quick Update: 128 stores...

New features:

* Custom domain
* SSL certificates

Coming Soon:

* Electrum MPK addresses, for direct payment
* Auction support

Excellent. You are still on my radar as #1 choice for the Klondike store when I have a working design to sell.

That Electrum MPK support will be awesome. I have some code for that I already started on in my github (below) as I wanted something like this for my own use. You may want to take a look. It's unfinished as I got distracted by other things...

[Global BTC]

Quick Update: 128 stores...

The directory only shows six stores.

[aantonop]

Most of them are not listed (as of today 138 stores), it takes time to add stock and make pretty.

We're about to finish work on OpenBitcoinStore 2.0, which will have an improved directory and more automatic listing.

[axilla]

i lost the password and login to my wordpress site.. looking to get going on my store and i dont seem to be receving my emails to gmail for a recovery.

[aantonop]

Axilla,

Please send a message to the support desk (support@rooteleven.zendesk.com)

I have passed on the information but we will need some additional info from you.

I can find or reset the password for you, once I confirm the site info, unfortunately we do not enable email sending by default on the stores, you have to use your own email server - this is because we would otherwise be used by spammers as an email generator.

[halfawake]

This is a great project.  I've heard a lot of good things about MediaTemple if you're looking for a place to host these - no, it's definitely not free, but it scales and at $20/month it's relatively inexpensive, so it could be a good option.

[cescan]

READY FOR MORE BETA TESTERS!

Things are going well and we have two stores in pre-launch testing.

Who wants a FREE STORE?

The tests indicate that Woo Commerce is the favorite. I have FIVE stores ready to go for beta testers.

I want a FREE STORE.

[BkkCoins]

Has there been any progress on Electrum MPK support? I want to setup now and use this for Klondike sales, but I don't want to bother with a third party merchant account. To me that kind of defeats one of the main features of Bitcoin, that you control your own money.

If there is technical info about how I can integrate this myself please PM me. I'm comfortable with Electrum code and programming in Python or C. I just don't have a lot of time right now.

Thx.

BTW your launch page won't accept a store sub title. It keeps rejecting a perfectly good subtitle.

"For digital picks and shovels."

Oh, it seems you cannot have a period in your subtitle... ? Hmm.

[ryepdx]

It looks like this is a Wordpress-based store. Your Python knowledge won't help you much there. I have quite a bit of experience with PHP, but not much with Wordpress.

I noticed you want to take payment directly. How do you plan on managing exchange rate fluctuations? I imagine your costs are denominated in fiat, not BTC.

[BkkCoins]

It looks like this is a Wordpress-based store. Your Python knowledge won't help you much there. I have quite a bit of experience with PHP, but not much with Wordpress.

I noticed you want to take payment directly. How do you plan on managing exchange rate fluctuations? I imagine your costs are denominated in fiat, not BTC.

I've done quite a bit of PHP as well, so no problem. Just my own Electrum MPK pmt code is in Python so rather than rewrite I may integrate it.

I always hold some bitcoin anyway so I'm not too worried about exchange rate. It occurred to me that I don't have a very good process for selling coins now that FC4B isn't around, and it often involves losing a few percent anyway, so I may as well use BitPay since they can put it direct in my bank.

To OP: I sent an email requesting activating my own domain but haven't heard anything. Is this something you can still do?

[uMMcQxCWELNzkt]

If you create a store with aantonop feel free to post a link in Bitcoin Innovators merchant section too. I want to support new Bitcoin businesses and merchants.

[BkkCoins]

I'm trying this out but having a few problems:

Emails aren't getting sent for New Order or any other notifications.

How do I add an SSL cert for the cart? I see up above that it's supported now, and in the cart there's an option to enable it. But it says a cert is needed. Where do I put that? I know how to get one, and on my own server I'd know how to set it up, but don't know how it works here.

Finally - if I want to run this on my own server so I have full control, can I grab it all in one easy step or do I have to install WordPress and then install WooCommerce, and then the plugins. Is there more as well?

Thx.

[Huc]

Just tried out the platform. Works great! Thanks for redirecting my URL www.cryptodecals.com.

I've accepted some payments using paypal and currently setting up bitpay to work with the store.

[cryptocash]

are there to tutorials on how to get a store running?