It’s easy, they said…

Truthfully, an online store requires such an intensive amount of time and know-how that you will spend more time working to get 30 different “necessary” plug-ins and their accounts set up, synced, and integrated to make your site as accessible as others with a variety of payment options and some visual interest.

Only then, you’ll find that one of the plug-ins won’t integrate properly because its coding only allows that sync to happen after you’ve added SKUs (and that log of ‘WHY’ wasn’t even visible to you where you hit the sync button, it was somewhere else) to your already unique one-offs…because you’re an artist that focuses on unique one-offs. But whatever, you just want them to sync, so you look to see if you could do a random generator. And sure you can, but you have to upgrade to the paid version of that plug-in to generate them.

Instead, you’ll be manually adding, to each and every item in a clunky and slow process, a random SKU that means nothing to you…just so that your Square account (that you’ll take with you to in-person shows), will sync to your WooCommerce so that you can have the items on your website, and show if they sold at the show, without you manually updating them all.

Want to make your site look as polished as other stores? Well, fuck you! Without adding a million different plug-ins and learning to do a little CSS, it’s still gonna look like shit.

This post is brought to you by the latest frustration of spending an entire day messing with the templates in the new “easy” site editor that just refuse to cooperate at all.