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Shoprocket vs Spike

Shoprocket vs Spike is a pasted button versus a room. Shoprocket puts a cart on a page you already have. Spike puts a price on a folder. If they already said yes, the button is extra.

Elias Berg

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Shoprocket vs Spike is a buy button versus a door. Shoprocket made a simple promise: paste a button or a cart on a site, take a card, deliver. No-code people like it because the page stays theirs. That extra is real if the domain must host the sale. It is a costume if the only SKU is a pack a person already asked for in a DM.

Spike assumes the link is the room. They look without taking the master. They pay there. They download there. You do not maintain a snippet, a product in Shoprocket, and a second record that can drift. How to sell a folder online is the unit.

A Buy Now on your page. A cart overlay. The folder URL is the till when neither paste was the product.

What Shoprocket is for

  • Buy buttons and a cart on a site you already have.
  • Sellers who did not want Snipcart's markup or Shopify's theme.
  • A public kit that should live on your domain.
  • Digital products as line items behind that button.

What the button does not do

A treated unpaid view. A library that is still yours when the snippet is gone. A client pack that is not a product in an overlay. Snipcart vs Spike if you were choosing a developer cart instead. Shoprocket will not become a gallery because you pasted a button.

What you getShoprocketSpike
Buy buttons on your siteYes, the jobThe folder is the page
No-code embedYesPaste a URL
Treated previewA cover imageBlur, watermark, samples
Named client packNot designed for itA private folder
Physical merchPossibleNo

  1. If the domain must host the sale, keep the button

    Shoprocket. A folder URL is a different building.

  2. If you also sell objects, keep a store

    Ecwid or Shopify. Shoprocket will not become a warehouse.

  3. If they already said yes, pick the folder

    Spike. Preview, pay, download. No overlay to hunt.

If you needed a button, Shoprocket is the extra. If you needed a page, the paste is furniture.

Keep Shoprocket for the public kit that should live on your about page. 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 the Shoprocket dashboard to send a client a pack. The button can keep selling the public ZIP. The folder can keep handing off the gallery.

A named client already said yes in the inbox. Putting them through an overlay to fetch a pack they commissioned makes a named job look like a store SKU. Keep Shoprocket when the public kit should live on your about page. Use Spike when this week's pack is one folder. Treat the unpaid view. Price the share. Skip the paste. Send the URL. Let them look, pay if they still owe you, and download on that same page. Two rooms. The mistake is one button doing both until a client hunts an overlay for a ZIP.

Questions

Good to know

Yes when you want preview, pay, and download on one page. No when a buy button on your site must stay the till. Keep Shoprocket if the domain hosts the sale. Use Spike when a URL can be the till.

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