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Well, if you are looking to start a young business, then I would like to suggest you, just take a look over Opencart ecommerce platform. Because for small and start up business, Opencart is the best choice.

Hey man, I have the exact answer to your question as I am a developer and an e-commerce man who has thought about this exact thing.

To get straight to the point, use laveral since you are familar with it. Intergrate a single page cart and checkout. For the cart you are more than welcome to use my simple AngularJS code below, hopefully you are familar with it. For the checkout and payment capture, use stripe's checkout form.

What it allows you to do is, capture payments and also other customer details. The payment part will be auto handled via stripe. The other details on the form upon post can be used to create an order record which you can store on your database. Then just create a simple order management backend.

The reason you don't wanna use wordpress / bigcommerce and others is they have way way way too many features for single product stores. The other issue is trying to customize these platforms to work for single products is a nightmare. Trust me, I've tried. They have their advantages like good shipping calculators and stuff but unless you need all these tools, just avoid it as itll make your life a nightmare. Let me know if you need any more help.

AngularJS simple cart code

Use a factory to create a cart with its functionality

myApp.factory('shoppingCart',[function(){

var shoppingCart = [];
shoppingCart.products = [];

shoppingCart.addProduct = function(item, quantity){
var newItem = {sku:item.sku, name:item.name, price:item.price, quantity:quantity};
var addNewItem = true;

for (var i = 0; i < shoppingCart.products.length; i++) {
if (item.sku == shoppingCart.products[i].sku) {
shoppingCart.products[i].quantity += newItem.quantity;
addNewItem = false;
break
}
}

if (addNewItem) {
shoppingCart.products.push(newItem);
}

};

shoppingCart.removeProduct = function(index){
shoppingCart.products.splice(index, 1);
};

shoppingCart.getTotal = function(){
var total = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < shoppingCart.products.length; i++) {
total += shoppingCart.products[i].price * shoppingCart.products[i].quantity;
}
return total;
};

return shoppingCart;
}]);

Add a product like so

$scope.addProduct = function(newItem, quantity){
shoppingCart.addProduct(newItem, quantity);
};



Hope this helps!

I would like to know are you interested for ecommerce business? If yes, then I would like to suggest you just think about the reputed ecommerce platform firm such as Opencart, Magento, Shopify and so on. The best of them is Opencart and Magento, because these platforms provide an open source, user friendly and attractive themes as well.