October 11, 2026/Jamin Giersbach
You Might Not Need a Full Online Store
Selling a class, a deposit or a few products? A payment link may be all you need. What Stripe's links do, what they cost, and where they stop.
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February 18, 2024/Jamin Giersbach
How to Take Card Payments on Your Website
Three ways to take cards on a small-business website, from a payment link to a full store, with Stripe, Square and PayPal fees as of October 2026.
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January 7, 2024/Jamin Giersbach
WooCommerce vs Shopify: Which Fits Your Store?
How Shopify and WooCommerce differ in cost, upkeep and control, when each fits a small store, and when a simple shop on your own site is enough.
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December 29, 2023/Jamin Giersbach
Optimize Your Store with 5 Best Practices for WooCommerce
Five ways to speed up a WooCommerce store: a CDN, an object cache, Core Web Vitals, compressed images and a tidy database.
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