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Because what I know now of htaccesss is relevant to what eventually the service becomes? Why do you love them?

Yeah, should've done that. I'm not too good with htaccess rules, so I tend to steer clear.

Oh, my apologies. I recently swapped it from HTML to PHP, forgot to update the footer links. Should be good now. Thanks for telling me.

See post above yours!

I considered doing that in the initial post, but seeing as Vinyl Collective is a seller too, I thought that might violate some terms or something. But sure, here you go. http://backstash.org is my main site. https://neuroparecords.com/ is one of my customers (label that released Carpenter Brut's Trilogy repress recently) Customers that are enrolling at the moment are: Consouling Sounds, Hypertension Records, Onderstroom Records, Wool-E Tapes. If you would like to test it, just send me a message and I'll upgrade your account to a paid plan for free. EDIT: the design is one of those things that needs improvement based on feedback. The new design I'm experimenting can be viewed here: https://backstash.io/newshop/products.php?shop=neuropa-records (complete not functional, only just began working on it)

How much are you doing in sales to not have to account for the losses of the fees? What would you say is the benefit of using the integrated digital delivery apps for MP3/... as apposed to for example iTunes or Bandcamp?

It's already built. I'm refining it based on the user feedback I can gather. Message me if you want to discuss it further.

I can imagine that working if you have no competition on your products. If you do, shipping becomes the sole reason why people will buy somewhere else (alongside the initial cost of the product). So offering a more complex way of setting up shipping costs, that are closer to the real costs you have, is something certain labels are looking for. Speaking of sales, is credit card really sufficient? Here in Europa, nearly every country has a different payment gateway that consumers use. Like, Germany uses Sofort, Netherlands use iDeal, Belgium uses Bancontact, and so on. Seems America only uses credit card, Stripe (again credit card) and PayPal (again credit card if you're not pre-loading it).

Oh, didn't know. Friend said it didn't do shipping the way he wanted too. Specifically because it wasn't calculating the price, it was just one fixed price per product. His problem was that sometimes people would order 1 vinyl and 2 CD's, in which case the CD's could be shipped in the same packaging sleeve as the vinyl. Thus costs could be saved on shipping and it could be offered more cheaply. Bigcartel wouldn't allow him to finegrain that sort of shipping detail.

No, I do not have a label. I'm gathering this info because I'm developing an online store service specifically for record labels and stores. I was looking for ideas on how to improve it, without shamelessly plugging my service.

Do you feel it works well for international sales too? I noticed they charge an extra % when you allow users to pay using third-party services. I don't feel like paying 3.4% PayPal fee + 2% Shopify fee.

What do you like about their service specifically? Reponse time? Friendly? Problems get fixed? I've heard from other labels that they don't really offer a robust shipping solution. Like, you can't finegrain the shipping to specific countries for example.

I was wondering what online store system you guys are using, and what you like/don't like about it.