Find out how to take credit card payments even if you don't have a website.
Read this to get paid by emailing, WhatsApp'ing or SMS'ing a link to your customers.
Trolley customers are selling services in industries from SEO consultancy to debt management.
If you run a consultancy business, or sell fixed-cost items or expertise, this post is for you.
The business case
You run a business where you sell fixed...
Why?
It shouldn't be difficult to sell on Instagram or other social media platforms, but sometimes it's not clear how to get started easily.
Doing it "properly" requires an Instagram Business Account, a Facebook Business manager setup, a Product Catalog...
Email newsletters are king
Increasing numbers of authors are successfully monetising their lists directly, by offering premium subscription models.
Historically this has been difficult - or expensive - to do.
Now it's possible to do it all in half...
Subscription payments
With the new Subscription Payments feature in Trolley, it's now easy to accept recurring amounts from customers from a static / JAMstack website.
With just a Trolley account, Stripe and 5 minutes you can accept recurring payments...
Don't waste time picking tools to run your startup, just get these.
When you're starting a startup or project, it's easy to fall into the trap of taking ages over unimportant details, while putting off the really important, but awkward, things -...
Hugo is one of the most popular static site generators in 2019, and is well-loved in the JAMstack community.
Hosting on Amazon S3 is almost free, very secure, fast and highly reliable - perfect for static sites.
Using S3 gives you super-easy access...
At Trolley we believe firmly in the benefits of static websites and the JAMstack.
Sadly not everyone's as enlightened as we are, so this blog is our attempt to explain why should try out these techniques for the next site you build.
But what is...
At Trolley we love Middleman - it's what we use to build our own site for Trolley
And we host on Amazon S3 because it's almost free, very secure, fast and highly reliable - perfect for static sites.
Here's a quick guide to how we did it, and how...
Static site generators are the best way to produce a simple, secure, super fast website.
But the generators themselves aren't all that simple, and it can be tedious to choose one of the many, learn it, and get started.
Here's a quick way to roll...