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Do not build this. A checkout that converts and never falls over is the product, and both halves are the result of enormous scale.

Every payment method a buyer expects, in every country, with fraud handling, address validation, tax, shipping rates and a checkout that has been tested against more traffic than you will ever see. And it stays up on the busiest day of the year, which is exactly when yours would not.

WHEN TO KEEP PAYING
- You sell physical goods to real customers. This is not a close call
- Any volume at all, because a checkout that fails during a sale costs more in an hour than a year of the subscription

FIRST, LOOK AT THE APPS
- The subscription is rarely the largest line. A dozen applications at ten or twenty each, several doing something a theme change would do, is where the money usually goes
- Audit them. Removing four is a bigger saving than any platform decision, and it makes the storefront faster — every app injects script into a page you are trying to keep fast

WHAT YOU CAN BUILD, AND SHOULD
- **A storefront on the platform's own APIs**, if the theme is limiting you. Full control of the front end, with the checkout staying where it is. That gets the speed and the design without touching the part that must not break
- **The order-status page**, self-service and linked from the confirmation email. Half of a shop's support volume is 'where is my order', and this removes most of it in an afternoon
- **Your own analytics**, first-party, so you are not entirely dependent on what the platform reports
- **An export on a schedule** of orders, customers and products into storage you control. Whatever happens to the platform relationship, the customer list is the asset and it should not live only in somebody else's account

WHEN A SMALLER SHOP MAKES SENSE
A handful of digital products needs none of this. Hosted checkout, a product page and signed download links is a fortnight, and it is under SendOwl elsewhere in this catalogue. Physical goods with inventory, shipping and returns is a different order of problem.

THE ONE-LINE VERSION
Keep it and audit the apps. Build the storefront and the order-status page, and export your customers on a schedule.