Has anyone integrated Shopify to enable the selling of access to just one post on their Ghost site?
Shopify might be overkill and not enough, at the same time. What does Shopify do that you want?
To sell access to a single post, you’re going to need a function (whether in the cloud or on your server) that does something like this:
- generates a payment link (or checkout session, or whatever) for the article
- receives the information that a payment has been made for the article
- uses the Ghost AdminAPI to retrieve the contents of the article
- serves the article content to the user
You’d need also to think about how you’re going to handle the user wanting access to the article again later. (They shouldn’t lose access just because they reloaded the page, right?!)
It wouldn’t be terribly hard to write*, but unless you need something in Shopify that I’m missing, it’d probably be simpler to use Stripe directly.
(*and I’d be happy to be crowd-funded to do so if there’s interest)
Can’t provide any guidance unfortunately, but the absence of this functionality is something that is surprisingly missing on modern platforms (especially Substack where they get a percentage). Something that WP has been able to do for 20 years would be a gamchanger for the modern marketplace.
I’m interested and would join others in crowd funding.
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