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Plasso Flexkit — Powerful payments & e-commerce API without writing code.
Flexkit is a powerful build-anything-you-want HTML API for payments, e-commerce, user authentication and customer management. It's like using Stripe, but without the need to write any code... or have a server... or have a database.
Flexkit can turn your pages, even static HTML mockups, into full-fledged billing & membership systems JUST using HTML.
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@joshpuckett Howdy Josh! Great question. Flexkit puts a hidden iFrame on your page. It then hijacks your forms and instead of submitting the form data server-side or over ajax it makes use of a cool browser tech called PostMessage. That means in stead of sending data over the wire, it simply passes the data down to the iFrame in the DOM. The iFrame is a fully secured Plasso page that processes the data. So its all HTTPS and 256bit secured. That means it works the exact same as if you were to secure your own HTTPS page and send your own data to Stripe or PayPal 👍
Hey 👋, I'm beyond excited to finally announce Flexkit! It's truly something special.
Right now, in a hundred different tech offices across the globe there are a hundred different teams all building a billing system for their product/software by spinning up a server and database and writing a bunch of code to integrate with Stripe's API or PayPal's or Recurly's, etc. Everyone is writing the same code... over and over.
That all ends now 😁
Flexkit is an easy to use HTML API that makes it incredibly easy to build a full-fledged billing/membership system using the Plasso platform. You can turn any UI you've built into a fully working product JUST using HTML. No need to write any API code or javascript code to handle errors, UI, validation, etc. Flexkit does it all for you 👍
In Lay Terms
You can turn any of those fancy checkout mockups you see on Dribbble into actual working/production checkout experiences in a few minutes. 👍
How It Works
Flexkit works completely stand-alone. No frameworks or plugins required. It uses tried and true HTML forms as its backing technology. That's right, no need to learn a new framework or "templating language" 😂 It works everywhere!
How To Use It
Just add a few Flexkit specific HTML attributes to your forms and include the javascript snippet on your website and you're done! 👍
What To Do Next
Watch the video above and go build your next project with Flexkit!
We are moving closer and closer to a zero-code future where designers might end up on top. This is amazing.
Drew killin it Wilson, leave it to you to come up with the most elegant solution. I am curious how this works on top of Stripe Billing. Does it pull in the plans that exist in the stripe account? or are plans defined and created on the plasso end?
@misterparker No need for Stripe Billing. Plasso's plans are more capable and more flexible that Stripe Billing 👍 Plasso only uses your Stripe account to charge the card. Everything else is done internally in Plasso :)
Awesome product! You might reach out to Netlify and do some co-marketing with this. Flexkit and Netlify are a perfect combination!
Storefront's built on Flexkit, right? If I want Storefront plus a little custom metadata on my subscriptions, is it possible to use all the Storefront HTML + CSS?
@nathang Yep! Storefront is built using Flexkit. If you want to use Storefront and pass in custom metadata, there is a way to do that just using Storefront: https://help.plasso.com/how-can-...
I'm checking your JSbin Demos and it seems not working. Tried on Chrome & Firefox.
In console, I see some Content Security Policy Errors.
Are you able to host it somewhere it actually works?
@phippuuuu Hey Philipp! You can build your own membership system with this, but right now you can't build your own market place. Right now each of your merchants would need their own Plasso account. HOWEVER, a market places system is 100% already on the list to build here at Plasso 👍
I'm currently using this for my airbnb/medium-like content site, working with an engineer to setup things like bookmarking, wishlists, etc.
Pros:Super simple to use, especially w/ no or low-code site builders like webflow,.
Cons:None that I can find so far.
Really well done. I would have a pricing plan where you don't take a % of revenue. Anything on top of merchant fees will be a deterrent to building your user base in my opinion.
Hi Drew, can you share some SAAS companies that are using flexkit to manage user authentication.
This looks really promising.
I'm actually running a heavily customized and API-automated Shopify storefront at the moment (soon to be released on PH, actually), but eventually had the plan to build my own payment system from within a mobile app. So, couple questions: Does this work inside an Ionic app? Do you have any premade HTML elements for Shopping cart, or do I still have to build my own cart?
Cheers,
Marc
Which businesses types are not able to use this? We have an online Vape store in Australia and are looking to move beyond the standard high risk payment gateway system as it can at times be rather unstable and not being able to offer customers a credit card/debit card payment option is really frustrating and literally limits sales!
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