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Question by skooj · Sep 03, 2017 at 11:09 PM · databaseappbackend

Ecommerce store

This is my first post and I'm a Unity noob.

I was going to create an ecommerce app for a physical product that I am launching, but decided that Unity would be better for the following reasons:

  1. load times - I don't mind a 5-10 second load time as we are creating a cooperative type of commerce, i.e. users own the company and therefore shouldn't mind a few seconds to get into the experience

  2. battery life - I know a game engine is constantly running as opposed to an event-driven app engine, but our users will not be spending so much time inside our experience that this should matter too much

The upside of using Unity will be a uniquely gamified commerce experience (leaderboards, level up, missions, etc.) . So this post is not too long, I won't go further into that now.

My main questions are:

  1. Shopify has just launched something called the Unity Buy SDK. It allows developers to sell physical products inside a Unity game. I do not think the Shopify solution will be robust enough as I need an ability for users to sort and filter search results. More significantly, I want users to have their own storefront (think marketplaces like Ebay, Etsy, Amazon). Is there a way for me to setup an ecommerce platform with robust features like this and importantly – users will not need to leave the experience/environment I'm creating?

  2. My product is a "platform product". In other words, it is a product that users can customize with their own designs. Though my product is not a t-shirt, we can use that for an example. I would like to create an interface where users can create or upload their own designs to a personal storefront in our marketplace. If it sells, we manufacture/ship the product and the creator gets paid. This will require the user to create a "sellers" account, which I'm thinking could be the same account that a regular store shopper sets up to make a purchase, but also have a bank account attached to receive funds from any product sales and monthly reports on how their store is doing. Is it possible to create something like this with Unity?

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Answer by rerenzel · Feb 28, 2018 at 04:50 PM

Did you continue using unity???? I was planning to make a project like yours.

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Answer by Jeredriq · Nov 20, 2019 at 05:36 AM

Same man. What did you do?

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Answer by zuzubaby · Jun 16, 2020 at 03:48 PM

its possible and I'm working on the same app. I'm using firebase authentication and firestore database for my app. I also have made a taxi hiring app using unity. the app ui works fast and total size of the apk is 28mb. my second eCommerce app should be ~ 30 mb in size. it has cool ui and animations and working nice. I takes less battery than amazon app :P you should try unity for this. Every thing goes on one scene ....only switching ui elements not the scenes. Sorry I can't disclose the name of the app ;P now ...may be soon

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