A visual online commerce distribution and hosted service

draft proposal

Given the many small businesses with no online shop or one that is not serving their or their customer's needs, Agaric intends to release an online commerce distribution and hosted service (with collaborators?) built on Drupal 7 and the Commerce module.

Market research

Worthy competitors, turn-key shops to compare:

http://goodsie.com/
https://flavors.me (not commerce, but a praised turn-key aggregation home page)

Competitive advantage / Why Drupal?

Using Drupal for a hosted commerce platform means that businesses, organizations, and people selling things can export their entire site and extend it or simply host it themselves. Everything can be in their control, and this mission-critical capability is not left to a single private company with its own interests (Amazon) or uncertain future (most of the rest). Many Drupal shops exist that will be able to take a hosted shop to the next level of design and functionality when it's ready.