A metamorphosis from Kanvas NFT to a headless e-commerce Storefront 🟢🐛🦋

A metamorphosis from Kanvas NFT Store to a full-fledged headless e-commerce Storefront, including a Partner Agencies Directory and a DAO with a governance token.

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Repository

If you have been involved in the development and marketing of content, media, and e-commerce web projects, you can understand how hard it can be to choose the technology and the platforms to get things done.

But it is obvious than more customers buy things online than ever before, and the numbers continue to grow. In just over a decade, the global e-commerce market grew over a 600%.

On top of it, headless commerce is growing in popularity.

This is an opportunity that we believe the Tezos community must embrace. Kanvas Whitelabel NFT Store from tzconnect is an outstanding and customizable project. We propose a METAMORPHOSIS. We would love to continue the efforts of decoupling the presentation layer froom the commerce platform and transition to a full-fledged e-commerce storefront (not only a solution for NFTs).

We are thinking about an e-commerce TZ Storefront. Going from NFTs to other digital goods and services will enable more flexibility in the content management, delivery, UX and SEO.

A lightning-fast and distinctive experience-led look and feel focused on customers, seamlessly handling e-commerce, and optimized for conversions, revenue and SEO are the goals to delight both developers, content creators, marketers, and customers. And we will commit to them.

Features

Content, media, and e-commerce businesses need a minimum to deliver their objectives - product pages, product catalog, shopping cart and checkout flow. But we are ambitious, and we will go beyond including promotions, discounts, loyalty, and analytics. All powered with an order fulfillment and inventory management solution in the backend.

We will start building on top of the amazing web experience that is Kanvas Whitelable NFT Store.

Let's deep dive on the features and goals of TZ Storefront development:

  • Future-proof modern tooling. We will use the latest tech stack like React, modern JavaScript, and GraphQL to jumpstart the storefront.
  • Mobile responsive as a key point to ROI, conversion, and revenue.
  • UI components for developers, designers, and agencies ready to build on top of awesome storefront themes.
  • 100% customizable. Built with Material UI components and Emotion.
  • A collection of themes and starters storefronts for different industries and verticals.
  • An "always" blazingly fast experience for customers decreasing the bouncing rate.
  • Offer a reliable, fast, and engaging Progressive Web App (PWA).
  • Out of the box integration with different content, APIs, and services (headless commerce).
  • Login with a Tezos wallet or with Kukai (social logins) -Keep payments with XTZ and Stripe.
  • Experience Management Layer: Campaigns, Loyalty,...
  • Measure behavior with Google Analytics, Segment, and Matomo.
  • Optimized for SEO.
  • Detailed and well documented developer materials to ensure fostering developer productivity.

Agencies Directory

Build, launch and manage a successful e-commerce storefront solution needs a strong ecosystem of partners ready to fulfill the requirements of the community.

Since the launch of Tezos, we have known that in the ecosystem are the some of the best web developers, agencies, designers, marketers, and engineers in the planet. We will create an agency directory to support all of them doing great work with TZ Storefront.

It will be a resource for helping the ecosystem connect with new customers and a tool for content creators, and brands to find TZ Storefront developers and full-service web agencies to help them customize, maintain, and update their projects.

DAO

Governance tokens will represent ownership in a decentralized storefront platform. Governance token holders will have certain rights that will influence the platform's direction, such as which new features to develop, which integrations and partnerships should be pursued, manage a budget, bounties, grants, and more.

TLDR governance token holders will submit proposals. Then if certain criteria are matched, the proposal will go to vote. Same way, governance token holders will use their tokens (power voting) to vote on the proposals.