We have decided to use PayPal shopping cart for our shop, but that has thrown up a small problem.
Because we are selling items that cost various amounts and have various weights, we obviously need different postage amounts as well...
Which is fine, until you get to the fact that we will need different postage rates for the UK, Europe and the USA (Yes, we are going to be international ;o) ).
Rather bizarrely in my view, PayPal doesn't give you an option with its shopping cart to charge different shipping rates depending on the location of the customer. Sigh...
I found this hard to believe, so I e-mailed them and sure enough, they confirmed this sorry state of affairs.
Still, all is not yet lost. I think I have found a way around this problem by utilising a third party piece of shopping cart software as a go between.
So today's task is simply to try this out and input the necessary shipping options we want and see if I can generate the magical html code needed for our "add to cart" buttons...
Then it's just a small matter of doing this individually for every item we currently sell. Gulp...
Where's that coffee?
The Silver Bough
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