If you were going to have a membership site, that also sold individual products, what stack would you pick to manage your site, CRM, email marketing, etc? What is the best bang for your buck?
It depends on how much time you’re willing to put in, how comfortable with development you are in general, and also which products you enjoy using.
For example, if I were to build this project right now my setup would likely be:
– Bricks theme
– ACF
– Native Bricks / WordPress user management for the membership part
– If the products you are selling are physical (I.e. they need shipping) I would use WooCommerce, if not
– Native Bricks for the store created with ACF + custom Stripe Integration
– Either MailerLite, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, or Hubspot for the email marketing / CRM (I’ve listed those in order of how much of a CRM they offer and also their price)
I’m not sure how in-the-weeds you want to get but seeing as you mentioned stack, this is my general setup
– Cloudflare for DNS
– Laravel Forge as a provisioning tool / GitHub deployment tool
– I use Lando (an abstraction layer for Docker) to run the local development
– GitHub for version control
– Bedrock as an abstraction layer for WordPress itself
– Digital Ocean for the server
CRM – FluentCRM
Membership – Sure Members
Shop: SureCart
It depends on how much time you’re willing to put in, how comfortable with development you are in general, and also which products you enjoy using.
For example, if I were to build this project right now my setup would likely be:
– Bricks theme
– ACF
– Native Bricks / WordPress user management for the membership part
– If the products you are selling are physical (I.e. they need shipping) I would use WooCommerce, if not
– Native Bricks for the store created with ACF + custom Stripe Integration
– Either MailerLite, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, or Hubspot for the email marketing / CRM (I’ve listed those in order of how much of a CRM they offer and also their price)
I’m not sure how in-the-weeds you want to get but seeing as you mentioned stack, this is my general setup
– Cloudflare for DNS
– Laravel Forge as a provisioning tool / GitHub deployment tool
– I use Lando (an abstraction layer for Docker) to run the local development
– GitHub for version control
– Bedrock as an abstraction layer for WordPress itself
– Digital Ocean for the server