Flamarkt: it's not here yet

Darkle

This is the discussion where Clark talked about a few more things, if anyone wants to take a look at it

About the extension set:

The core sets of extensions I will publish are: core software (products and orders), categories, pictures, taxonomies, product variations, coupons, user balance, custom units and Stripe payments. Address and shipping will come later as I don't need them for my initial project. Backorders, suppliers and other advanced features are being developed as part of a private codebase and might be available later as paid features.

clarkwinkelmann

Darkle thanks! I guessed I had not mentioned "Flamarkt" in that post, so it didn't come up when searching through my posts or the forum 😇

Jorc0

clarkwinkelmann Any update on Flamarkt?

clarkwinkelmann

Jorc0 still a work in progress.

clarkwinkelmann

The first Flamarkt-powered website is going live today in read-only mode. If it survives the weekend, I'll post a link for you to take a look.

There is still a lot of work remaining until this is fully usable in production.

You can see there are now 17 extensions on the GitHub org and all have been added to Packagist (only dev-main for now). There's one more extension (Stripe payments) planned before the 0.1 version is tagged, but that's still multiple tens of man-hours away. I will try to tag all the extensions that can be used without Flamarkt next week.

There's probably still a few more months before I can write all the documentation and start offering support. I will write a few premium extensions that will get priority support, I'm not sure for what yet, suggestions are welcome.

I'll probably stream about Flamarkt again on my YouTube channel this sunday. But I'm not sure what I'll work on yet. The payment extension is important but it will take way too many hours to be finished during one stream. The identity extension still needs a massive rewrite so I might do that.

TOWUK_ru

clarkwinkelmann how get link of website?

luceos

clarkwinkelmann I will write a few premium extensions that will get priority support, I'm not sure for what yet, suggestions are welcome.

You can also publish a premium extension that does nothing, but implies receiving priority support.

clarkwinkelmann

TOWUK_ru how get link of website?

I'll publish it sometime next week.

Darkle multi-vendor marketplace

Good idea! It will take a lot of time to develop, so that's a good candidate for being a paid extension. It'll be very complex if it handles payments and/or shipping for multi-vendors and not just a "Facebook" marketplace.

Darkle

As a premium extension suggestion, I would like to see the idea that was once discussed about an extension for Flamarkt that allows a multi-vendor marketplace, so that users with the role "Vendor" can access their own backoffice and manage their products... etc.

Darkle

clarkwinkelmann Yeah, this would be a complex one, maybe when you explore the standard Flamarkt payment extension you'll come up with some ideas... Extiverse comes to mind, I have no idea how it does it (magic maybe 😂), but I've seen that button in the account settings that lets you log in with Stripe in case you go publish premium extensions and then it looks like the payment goes directly to the developer's stripe account from what I can see on the invoices.

But yes there are many approaches to this, on many marketplaces sellers prefer bank transfer which only requires IBAN or they put their paypal links directly...

It would be interesting to discuss all this when Flamarkt is in a more mature state, this extension could be super cool for lots of communities.

luceos

Darkle Extiverse comes to mind, I have no idea how it does it (magic maybe 😂), but I've seen that button in the account settings that lets you log in with Stripe in case you go publish premium extensions and then it looks like the payment goes directly to the developer's stripe account from what I can see on the invoices.

Extiverse uses Stripe Connect which offers several different ways of acting as intermediary, see: https://stripe.com/connect

fakruzaruret

luceos Stripe, paypal does not work in Turkey 😃

Akito

Omg I love this may it support a adapter like the upload allow to add some custom payment mathod?

Because stripe isn’t support on my country

Paran0lik

I like it, very cool idea) 😀

phox

Sub to this discussion. Very interested in this extension

TOWUK_ru

upd?

clarkwinkelmann

TOWUK_ru soon. Progress is slow but I'm getting there. I'll push the 0.1 payments API with Stripe soon.

Darkle it's definitely something I had in mind! If anyone has a use case for this I could use some help to test it out in production when I eventually work on it!

I have also been thinking about how subscriptions could be introduced into the framework but that's definitely a higher level of complexity and that won't be part of the first release 😅

Darkle

To add another idea for future premium extensions of Flamarkt, it would be very nice an extension for the support of digital products normally files (pdf, zip...) with the final base of Flamarkt I think it would be quite feasible. The key would be to create a kind of "download centre" for the user, from where you can download/check the digital products that have been purchased, I think it could be very good.

luceos

Darkle that's very interesting! I've seen implementations like that. Might be interesting for selling e-books or even graphic art!

MikeJones

So would this be an extension to allow us to sell items on our flarum?

clarkwinkelmann If anyone has a use case for this I could use some help to test it out in production when I eventually work on it!

I may have a use case on my flarum to sell digital pdf maps for the adventures I write about.

djemyjenab

clarkwinkelmann Count me in.. I want try it on my production flarum. 😛

Gerry

I would have another idea: Could you extend the extention with a coin system (which you can collect e.g. by new contributions)? Then you could buy user badges, so that users are motivated to write.