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FoxyCart vs Spike

FoxyCart vs Spike is plumbing versus a room. FoxyCart hides a flexible checkout in a site you already run. Spike assumes the link is the room. They preview there. They pay there. They download there.

Jonna Pääkkönen

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FoxyCart vs Spike is a customizable cart versus a door. FoxyCart made a living putting a real checkout behind sites that were not Shopify: templates, language, hooks, a cart people could finish without you building PCI. Developers and shops with taste used it. FetchApp often sat next to it for the file. That stack still works. It is also how a gallery becomes a product code, a webhook, and a second dashboard.

Spike skips the stack. They open the folder. The unpaid view is a gate. Checkout is a switch on that share. The originals stay in your library. SendOwl vs Spike is the engine cousin. This page is the Foxy-shaped till.

A cart behind your site. A pipe for the ZIP. The folder URL is the till when the stack was the product.

What FoxyCart is for

  • A checkout you style, behind a site you already have.
  • Templates, language, hooks, a cart that is not a full store.
  • Shops that outgrew a Buy Now and did not want Shopify.
  • Digital products as line items, often with a delivery pipe beside them.

When stacking them is the leak

FoxyCart plus FetchApp plus a transfer "just in case" is three places the pack can rot. If the site is the brand brochure, deliver named jobs on a folder. Do not add a pipe on top of a cart on top of a Drive. Charge for a download link is the switch that drops two layers.

What you getFoxyCartSpike
Your existing siteYes, the jobThe folder is the page
Customizable checkoutYesStripe on the folder
File deliveryOften a second productOn the same URL
Treated previewYou build itBlur, watermark, samples
Client galleryNot designed for itA private folder

  1. If the domain must host checkout, keep the cart

    FoxyCart. A folder URL is a different building.

  2. If you only needed delivery after the card, drop a layer

    Do not pay for a cart and a pipe and a transfer.

  3. If they can open a link, pick the folder

    Spike. Preview, pay, download. No webhook to drift.

If you needed a cart, FoxyCart is the extra. If you needed a page, the stack is furniture.

Keep FoxyCart for the public kit that must live on your domain. Move the named job. Fees 5% / 1% / 0% plus Stripe. Free shares last three days. Pro and Business leave the folder up. Staff paste a link. They do not need a Foxy dashboard to send a client a pack. The site can keep looking like you. The folder can keep selling files. A standing cart product can stay. A DM pack should not wait on a template you last edited in 2018.

A named client already walked the path in the inbox. Putting them through a cart template and a delivery pipe to fetch a pack they commissioned makes a named job look like a store SKU. Keep FoxyCart when the public kit must live on your domain. Use Spike when this week's pack is one folder. Treat the unpaid view. Price the share. Skip the stack. Send the URL. Let them look, pay if they still owe you, and download on that same page. Two rooms. The mistake is one checkout doing both until a client is asked to finish a cart for a ZIP.

Questions

Good to know

Yes when you want the buyer to open a folder, see a treated preview, and pay there. No when your site must stay the till and you need a customizable cart, templates, and hooks. Keep FoxyCart if the domain hosts checkout. Use Spike when a URL can be the till.

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