I could really use some advice after having spent crazy hours trying to get a small business website up from scratch and then hitting a big brick wall.
Without getting too mired in details, my issue is that I have spent a lot of time and resources creating and publishing a website using both Coffeecup Shopping Cart Creator (SCC) Pro & Designer Pro... only to find out that it's not going to work for me and the business due to limitations with how the (software) shopping cart handles shipping calculations as well as with limitations in how PayPal Payment Services (PPS) handles shipping cost calculations... and I need either the shopping cart software or the payment service to be able to handle accurate shipping costs based on current USPS postage rates. And with neither SCC nor PPS being able to do so without requiring me to input literal mountains of data into custom shipping tables - I'm stuck.
What that has left me with is needing to find a shopping cart service that provides robust and accurate built-in USPS postal calculation rates. Which means I'll have to pretty much scrap the website built with the Coffeecup software in total...
I have found shopping cart services like AuctionInc which provide the robust shipping calculations I need and for which I'm willing to pay a monthly fee for... But that leaves me with needing to redesign the rest of a new website from scratch - which really hurts considering all the time/money already spent.
So my question is:
If I restart designing a website from scratch, could anyone recommend a WYSIWYG type website designer program that plays nicely with 3rd party shopping cart services like AuctionInc... which in turn will play nicely with PayPal Payment Services Standard?
I want to do things right this time because I'm running out of money and time with getting a viable website up and running. Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
My apologies for the length of the post!
Without getting too mired in details, my issue is that I have spent a lot of time and resources creating and publishing a website using both Coffeecup Shopping Cart Creator (SCC) Pro & Designer Pro... only to find out that it's not going to work for me and the business due to limitations with how the (software) shopping cart handles shipping calculations as well as with limitations in how PayPal Payment Services (PPS) handles shipping cost calculations... and I need either the shopping cart software or the payment service to be able to handle accurate shipping costs based on current USPS postage rates. And with neither SCC nor PPS being able to do so without requiring me to input literal mountains of data into custom shipping tables - I'm stuck.
What that has left me with is needing to find a shopping cart service that provides robust and accurate built-in USPS postal calculation rates. Which means I'll have to pretty much scrap the website built with the Coffeecup software in total...
I have found shopping cart services like AuctionInc which provide the robust shipping calculations I need and for which I'm willing to pay a monthly fee for... But that leaves me with needing to redesign the rest of a new website from scratch - which really hurts considering all the time/money already spent.
So my question is:
If I restart designing a website from scratch, could anyone recommend a WYSIWYG type website designer program that plays nicely with 3rd party shopping cart services like AuctionInc... which in turn will play nicely with PayPal Payment Services Standard?
I want to do things right this time because I'm running out of money and time with getting a viable website up and running. Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
My apologies for the length of the post!
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