rsbadger

Hello!

We recently launched Shoprocket 2.0 and wanted to share it with the HN community.

Shoprocket is the easiest way to sell online via your existing website, blog, landing pages etc in minutes.

You can signup, add your products, connect YOUR preferred gateway (currently Stripe, PayPal and offline payments, with more coming soon) configure your shipping/taxes and then embed Shoprocket directly into your page, wherever you want your products to appear.

We don't use iFrames, so every element becomes part of your site, meaning you have control over the look & feel.

What makes us different?

1. Headless - manage your store via our hosted dashboard, then display your products where ever you like. Your website, blog, landing pages, and soon your social channels too.

2. Speed - Shoprocket is the fastest shopping cart available, with no loading screens or page loads between checkout steps: https://shoprocket.io/help/faq/will-shoprocket-slow-down-my-... (loading screens may still be displayed at your gateway level)

3. Payments - most platforms will process payments on your behalf, then send you the funds minus their fees. With Shoprocket, payments are processed via your own gateway account, meaning you get 100% of your funds, instantly. This also allows you to specify which payment methods to support, as well as manage your own fraud prevention rules etc.

We're a small, remote team, fully bootstrapped, but we've already helped 24,495 sellers process $18,436,482.52 in orders.

Here's a few example stores:

https://yolsandals.com/en/shop/ - using our buy buttons and shopping cart embed

https://www.ioanna.no/shop/ - full page of products, also offering Klarna as a payment option

https://www.scootered.co.uk/lamborghini-al1-electric-scooter... - static HTML page with Shoprocket embeds

https://theclinkcharity.org/shop - embedded a full page of products with filters etc

https://www.pizza-gifts.co.uk/ - Dominos selling gift cards (They uploaded a list of "serial codes" and we send one automatically to each customer once payment is confirmed)

Happy to answer any questions, I'm pretty terrible at explaining all that Shoprocket does (there's a lot ) so please do let me know if anything isn't clear!

Ah I see - the tool just creates permutations of keywords entered, foe example, if you enter 10 keywords in each column, it generates you 10,000 long tail keyword combinations of the words you enter. (10 * 10 * 10 * 10)

It's ideal for when you want a huge list of all your services, sectors and areas covered etc in every combination.

what do you mean by source?

It would have been if they said "we will fly you home, as per your cover" but they didn't, the flight home was a goodwill gesture. If they weren't going to pay for my 2nd operation, I would have ditched the "reasonable attitude" and claimed for the 1st operation. They knew that, so by offering me the goodwill flight home they were literally trying to make me void my own cover.

Furthermore, the policy says clearly, until I CAN fly home. My DR had explicitly told me I could not. I wasn't going to risk my health for the sake of my arsehole insurance company and their bullshit attempts to wriggle out of paying.

Ask yourself, would YOU have ignored the advice of your DR, who knew your case personally, in favour of the "opinion" of a private company whose sole motivation is financial?

Because they said "No further medical input needed." which is a fairly clear "we don't require any more input from anybody, we've made our decision."

If after they "review" my case they ask again, I will reach out to the DR who treated me and waste more of his time, but I'm confident the insurance company would have still found a way to weasel out of it, even if the DR had been more explicit. I imagine it wasn't his first time writing a "not fit to fly" note, after all...

I'm assuming Insure and Go will be in touch at some point requesting me to take down my post as it's amassed 30k views in 24 hours. But I won't. Even if they don't pay out because of it, I'd prefer that people have access to this information. Paying me the $22k would be a drop in the ocean for them, but hopefully, the post will live on for years.

Just to clarify your comment on "What they offered was exactly what travel insurance is there for." They didn't offer me anything. Not one piece of my cover was offered. They 'offered' me a flight home as a goodwill gesture. They stressed that they didn't have to. It was a really shitty tactic. If you complain to a company and accept "their goodwill gesture" you are agreeing that no further action will be taken. If I had accepted their flight home, that would have been my insurance void and I would have no grounds to appeal.

No I didn't, that email was 7 days after the surgery, I had already left Singapore and was back in Bali by then. (My "not fit to fly" letter stated I was not fit 'before' having the surgery, once the plate was in and the swelling had resided I was OK)

I only really comment on the economy seat because my cover included £2,000 of curtailment cover, but they weren't even giving me that. They were offering me a cheap seat out of goodwill. If I had accepted that, I was accepting that I had no claim.

my insurance was for 18 months of travel though, so i intended to travel for 18 months. I think that's reasonable. Maybe my wording came out wrong in the post, I wasn't telling them, "no i wont come home" I was telling them I didn't have a return flight pre booked because I was planning on travelling for 6 more months yet.

my first ever blog post attempt, I thought the gifs helped make up for my poor writing abilities

Yes to all of this.

I always replied to them immediately, it's just I didn't get the written "not fit to fly" until I saw the DRs again, which was the day of the surgery. I had told the insurers that the DR's had already "told" me I wasn't, and that I would get the written form when I next met them. I had to decide between having the surgery or not at that point. I couldn't go back on Monday morning, ask the Dr for his letter, and hold off on the operation until my insurer emails back. Which coincidentally they didn't do until the 19th, 7 days later.

I felt that paragraph was the most relevant to me, I had been told by my DR that I shouldn't fly. They had already told me I was crazy to have flown to SG with my finger hanging off without being stitched up first. And I didn't have a plaster cast, they had given me a make shift thing in Bali, but once I reached SG I was unfit for flying home due to the risk of further damage to the hand. It was massively swollen and 2 of the bones were pretty badly shattered. I wasn't going to ignore the advice of a DR who was holding my X-rays to appease an insurance company who doesn't give 2 shits about my health.

Now you can be sure: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5nmgqv7gqz55uhl/Screenshot%202018-...

This is true, but the reality is I doubted my insurance would pay from the start. I was expecting to pay for everything myself. It was only once I got the quotes in Singapore that I realised I might not actually be able to afford it that I resorted to the insurance. And their response was even worse than I expected it to be. I appreciate there are countless fraud attempts and they need to protect themselves, but I was lucky, it could have been a lot worse, I'm sure for other people it is. And I guarantee you when you're facing emergency surgery the LAST thing on your mind is "I best call my insurer and start the form filling process". It's fuck, FUCK. This fucking sucks.

so glad somebody gets it

Also worth noting my cover was Worldwide (except USA) insurance is substantially cheaper outside of the states

I knew it may cause issues with my insurer, but the surgeon in Bali was on holiday for 1 or maybe 2 days and my finger was hanging off... Singapore was the closest place I could think of that would give me the best chance of saving it. And i'd do it again, in a heartbeat.

I felt I shouldn't claim the first bills because I hadn't informed them before the procedure. And yes, because it turned out to be a fairly manageable bill. But the 2nd procedure was going to be considerably more, so I notified them. To clarify, I didn't want any long term care at all, I was only asking them to cover the 2nd operation that I was already scheduled in for.

yes

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Glad you like it!