Turned my Discourse into a successful ecommerce platform!

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

I would just like to send a big thanks to the entire team and the community for providing such a great piece of software. It’s reliable, fast, and it blows traditional forum software out of the water! I’ve turned our Discourse instance into a small marketplace community that is slowly climbing in sales/users/traffic.

The possibilities are endless when you throw a couple of plugins at Discourse. I recommend it 100%!

[FoohonPie]

Are you comfortable sharing the url? I’m intrigued.

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

https://SWAPD.co

[ilker_Kaan_ipcioğlu]

hi Dave,
Are these input boxes come with a plugin?

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

Yes, that’s a custom plugin.

[csmu (Keith John Hutchison - Ceiteach Seán Mac Úistin)]

Yes, that’s a custom plugin

Any likelihood of open sourcing ?

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

Sorry, not at the moment.

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

Hey @WorldIsMine,
I see you are using timed topics. You can have a look at

Live Topic Timer

This theme component changes the default timed topic timer to a live countdown timer. [29%20PM] Repository Link The rerender time can be changed in the component settings according to your use case. The time displayed by the timer can be format in multiple ways from the theme component setting whose documentation can be found here. [43%20PM] To do Display the timer on the header next to the topic title. I’m looking for specific UI/UX suggestions for how to implement a header tim…

[Joshua_Kogan]

Willing to open source yet? Would be great for the community!

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

Sorry but no. I have already contributed three plugins to the community.

[Ahmed_Abdelfattah]

@WorldIsMine

The possibilities are endless when you throw a couple of plugins at Discourse. I recommend it 100%!

Hi,
Is this Fee calculator something that you are willing to contribute to the community?

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

Sorry, not at the moment. It wouldn’t be useful anyway, all the values/etc are hard-coded just for our site. It has no option to edit values/responses.

[PBS (Prashanth)]

Hello Dave,

Would you be able to provide some details on how to add a section of text/html to the home page? Just like in your site, you have a lot of details and then the category. I have raised a question in the forum also.

Empty Home Page

Hello All, I am new to Discourse and evaluating. Currently the home page displays category or topics. Can I add a section above this where I can display some custom text? Also I used the custom wizard to make a contact form. How to receive the data which user enters in that form? Can that be sent as a mail? Thanks, Prashanth

Thanks,
Prashanth

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

It’s a theme component: Versatile Banner

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

Just wanted to give an update on how awesome discourse is We’ve been operational for over three years now and despite the low member count (25Kish) our instance is a sales powerhouse! Our company is now a fully certified escrow service managing hundreds of transactions per month (mostly services), all thanks to discourse. A big thanks to the entire discourse team!