Nostr Reviews on Nostr: There's not a lot of manual communication that has to take place the way Shopstr has ...
There's not a lot of manual communication that has to take place the way Shopstr has things set up, but a seller DOES need to be notified of the sale in some way, along with shipping details for sending out the product, and the buyer should receive some form of communication that the order has been received and accepted, and then a notification when it has been shipped. Shopstr handles most of these communications automatically, "while the seller is busy doing other things." The seller just needs to send the buyer notification when the item has shipped, which Shopstr would have no way of knowing has or has not taken place.
The issue is that all of this automatic notification is occurring via NIP-17 DMs that sellers may not have access to in their client of choice, and may not realize they need to check on a regular basis for order notifications. That doesn't have anything to do with the NIP-15 spec, though. That NIP specifies kind 4 DMs as the notification method, which is currently supported by most clients, but which some are considering removing since they leak metadata.
Also, Shopstr is based on NIP-99 "Classifieds" rather than NIP-15 "Marketplaces."
The issue is that all of this automatic notification is occurring via NIP-17 DMs that sellers may not have access to in their client of choice, and may not realize they need to check on a regular basis for order notifications. That doesn't have anything to do with the NIP-15 spec, though. That NIP specifies kind 4 DMs as the notification method, which is currently supported by most clients, but which some are considering removing since they leak metadata.
Also, Shopstr is based on NIP-99 "Classifieds" rather than NIP-15 "Marketplaces."