TL;DR: Here's the thing that took me longer than it should have to articulate: WordPress (WooCommerce) and Webflow both have a mental model of what a product is. WooCommerce thinks a product has a name, a price, a few variations (size, color), some images, and ships in a box.

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The Actual Problem: Generic Platforms Don't Fit Weird Products

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