No-code e-commerce: which tools should you use for your website?

The world of e-commerce is evolving at an incredible pace, and many businesses are looking to adapt quickly to stay competitive. This is where “no-code e-commerce” comes in, giving businesses the ability to easily create and manage their website without needing to understand the technical details involved.

In other words, with “no-code e-commerce,” you need far less web development knowledge to create a professional website and sell online. It’s an incredible opportunity for businesses of all sizes to enter e-commerce with far fewer technical challenges.

In recent years, the use of no-code has seen exponential growth, becoming an essential solution for businesses looking to develop quickly online. In this article, let’s explore a selection of no-code tools available on the market that are useful for e-commerce.

To create your no-code e-commerce website

Whether you want to develop a website or a web app to sell online, there are several no-code tools to achieve this. Here are our two favorites at Scroll:

Webflow, for a website

Webflow is one of the most popular tools for creating a no-code e-commerce website. With its Webflow e-commerce offering, it provides an intuitive and powerful visual design interface, allowing you to easily design and develop your e-commerce site without any coding knowledge.

The advantage of Webflow for e-commerce

One of Webflow’s key advantages is its flexibility. You can fully customize your site to meet your needs, using templates or building your own from scratch. Webflow also offers a range of powerful e-commerce features, such as online payment integration, inventory management, and order management.

That flexibility operates inside a legal framework which is not negotiable, and it is better known before designing the checkout flow. For an online sale to a consumer in the European Union, the seller must grant a 14-day right of withdrawal from receipt of the goods, and the legal guarantee of conformity covers a minimum of two years. Add mandatory information before the order is confirmed, seller identity, total price including charges, delivery time, withdrawal terms, and an order button whose label explicitly states the obligation to pay. Those elements translate into pages and screens: better to plan them into the mockup than to bolt them on afterwards.

With Webflow, you can track and analyze your site’s performance in real time using built-in tracking and analytics tools. This helps you understand how visitors interact with your site, enabling you to make informed decisions to improve the user experience.

Payments deserve one simple rule, whatever the tool: never let a card number pass through your site. A provider-hosted page such as Stripe Checkout, or isolated fields inside an iframe, dramatically shrink your PCI compliance scope. The technical corollary matters just as much: confirming a payment must never rely on the browser’s return, which can be lost if the buyer closes the tab. It goes through webhooks, signature verified against the raw request body, an immediate 2xx response, and deduplication, since Stripe retries for three days and does not guarantee event ordering.

Bubble, for a web app

Bubble is another popular no-code tool, but this time for creating an e-commerce web app. Bubble is known for its ease of use and power, offering a no-code development platform for businesses looking to build a web application.

The advantage of Bubble for e-commerce

With Bubble, you can quickly develop and launch your e-commerce site using a visual interface to create pages and features. Like Webflow, Bubble offers a full range of e-commerce features, such as online payment integration, order management, and inventory management.

One warning specific to this approach: in an application, order data lives in a database you administer, with rights to define explicitly. On Bubble that control runs through privacy rules, enforced server-side, a data type created without a rule stays readable by everyone, including through the app’s API. On a shop, that potentially means every customer’s orders and addresses. This is broken access control, first in the OWASP Top 10, and the check fits in a single query made with a low-privilege account.

Bubble’s biggest advantages are its power and flexibility, which allow you to easily develop and customize your e-commerce site to meet your needs. The tool also offers plugins and integrations with other popular tools and services, such as social networks, messaging services, and payment systems.

For customer management and CRM creation

Airtable

Airtable is a no-code tool that can be used to manage customers and create a CRM for your business. This tool is designed to provide a fast and simple data management experience while keeping all important information at your fingertips.

With Airtable, you can easily create databases to store customer information, such as their contact details, past purchases, and support history. Additionally, you can use Airtable to track tasks and opportunities, using tables and views to visualize and organize your data.

The benefits of Airtable for e-commerce

Simplify customer management: Airtable allows you to easily store and manage customer information.

Easily create a CRM: Airtable lets you easily create a CRM to track customer interactions.

Customize your databases: Airtable allows you to tailor your databases to your specific needs.

Easy to use: Airtable is user-friendly, even if you have no software development experience.

Real-time collaboration: Airtable enables real-time collaboration with your teams to easily manage customer information.

For automating e-commerce processes and tasks

Make (Integromat)

Make is a no-code tool that automates e-commerce processes and tasks. It allows you to connect and sync different tools and services to streamline repetitive tasks and improve your business efficiency.

With Make, you can automate tasks such as order management, sending emails to customers, updating inventory, invoicing, and much more. You can also set up scenarios to customize your automations based on your needs.

The benefits of Make (Integromat) for e-commerce

Save time: Make lets you automate repetitive tasks, saving you a lot of time and effort.

Boost efficiency: By automating repetitive tasks, Make helps you improve your business efficiency.

Customize your automations: Make is highly flexible, allowing you to tailor automations to your specific needs.

Connect different tools and services: Make enables you to connect and sync various tools and services to streamline tasks and enhance productivity.

Easy to use: Make is user-friendly, even if you have no development experience.

Build your no-code e-commerce site with Scroll agency!

At Scroll, no-code is our specialty! Our no-code developers master the best tools on the market to deliver tailored solutions. Using tools like Webflow, Bubble, Airtable, and Make, we work with you to develop e-commerce sites that perfectly meet your needs. If you have a project, don’t hesitate to contact our no-code agency!