I’m a little confused on specifics of using hugo with snipcart. I’m working on building out an ecommerce site for a client and I’m really looking to Hugo as I like many of it’s features and the entire concept of not having to deal with a database or cms, etc. Got some experience in static site gener…

Ask snipcart. Your questions are answered on their end, they know how to use Hugo for their product.

Thanks for the reply… my question really is more geared towards Hugo though. Specifically how to create product pages in mass. Individual content pages vs data driven. But I will give them a shot thanks

Currently as you’ve seen Hugo does NOT support the automatic generation of pages from data. This is the most anticipated feature at the moment and you may want to track: Build pages from data source opened 05:20PM - 14 Aug 18 UTC (UTC) …

Thanks for the reply… I guess where I’m struggling to understand is more of the technical aspects as to why it isn’t possible. I saw/read something where a json file was used to generate content on a page so maybe that’s my disconnect, oh well. I’ll take your word for it as you’re obviously more ex…

And it all just clicked for why snipcarts tutorial worked and I didn’t make the connection… They’re demo is a single page… Now it makes sense…

[image] rwslippey: I’m probably a bit confused on the issue with snipcarts pricing though. $10 a month doesn’t seem that unreasonable to me They also charge 2% on sales. Add up the payment gateway fees and you will be having a missing chunk of around 6% per product along with the 10$ monthly …

Thanks for the reply again. Got tied up with the honey do list this weekend. I must have misunderstood SnipCart’s pricing. I thought it was 2% unless under $500 then $10 a month only. Still the percentage is kind of a kick in the pants when it doesn’t include processing. I’m looking into maybe how…

You can use getJSON to pull in the data or you could use a data fir that’s pulled in (e.g gulp)

[image] rwslippey: I’m looking into maybe how we can do this with stripe. See: Tutorial: Netlify + Stripe serverless eCommerce on the JAMstack - #2 by divinerites

Hugo data driven ecommerce

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alexandros April 9, 2020, 7:59am 8

Also here is a variation of the technique, that I linked to above, that creates pages from a CSV with the Hugo CLI.

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Hugo data driven ecommerce

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