How to create products and a shopping cart with stripe

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I want to start creating physical products that I would like to sell on my website. I’d like to use stripe for this as I’m just starting and they only take a % on each sale which is just great.
So I would need to be able to create products, with prices and being able to add them to a shopping cart, then able to check out through stripe.
Has anyone done this before and could anyone guide me on what I would need in order for me to code this?

Any help is appreciated!
If there are other, easier ways than using stripe, I’m all ears as well!

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I have recently set up a small ecommerce experience for my mother-in-law’s site on Ghost and went a similar route: From Ellie’s Workshop to Your Wardrobe: Handmade Reversible Hoodies

Initially, we also thought about a shopping cart experience, but that would involve quite some custom coding (e.g. assembling all the products, then creating a custom Stripe checkout,…).

So, we went the easy route and just set up products in Stripe, then generated a payment link, added some custom HTML cards in Ghost and well…here we are.

If the shopping cart is vital for your idea, have a look at @Cathy_Sarisky’s thread here: What I'm working on - eCommerce within Ghost

This has helped me tremendously when setting this up for my mother-in-law (but in the end, we decided it’s very unlikely for somebody to buy more than one product at the same time).

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Alright thank you very much! I’ll look into that!

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