I'm (once again) trying to find a #webdev who can set up an #ecommerce page on my toplesstopics.org website for the purposes of:

- letting customers buy "credits" which can then be traded for digital photo downloads, since stripe counts photos of topless women (but not men) in any context as "porn," but buying "Credits" instead does NOT break their TOS;

- having the option to give away promo/free/whatever-term-you-prefer credits as a perk to #patreon donors, either (ideally) automatically or as something I can do with a few clicks of a button per donor.

My generally-tech-savvy-friend insists the only way I can set up something like this is to pay several hundreds of dollars a month on Wordpress plugins, or "hire the web dev equivalent of a guy-with-camera" to slap together some generic shit using Shopify etc and keeping me beholden to hiring them any time I want to make any changes to the store"

Maybe he's right, maybe he's not, but he's not a professional web developer so I wanted to field some advice from those who do specialize in such things 😁

So, TL;DR:

- can I set up an e-commerce site where people buy credits to trade for digital downloads, and be able to grant those credits to patreon donors as part of their perks, without having to pay hundreds of dollars per month to maintain said store?

Thanks!