matt0108

Exactly as above. All down to time, money, skillset etc Dont discount any of the alternatives until you have looked into them and tested them where possible. Some of the hosted solutions are very very good and remarkably cost effective.

It really depends on the vision that you have for your eCommerce website and the level of experience that will be directly employed on developing it. Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix etc offer very clear and easy to use tools to build your site. They purposely dont provide a technical challenge, and thus allow for pretty much anyone to throw together a perfectly good site. Something like this may suffice if you want to minimise costs and are willing to invest your own time. If you are looking for more advanced features and a more flexible platform and are either development minded or looking to employ someone to create/migrate your eCommerce solution for you then Magento, Open Cart etc might be more favourable. I believe most of the hosted solutions now offer free trials. Have a good read up on the web and perhaps have a play with those before committing to anything. Good luck

I came across this http://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_progressbar.asp Using this as the foundation would it possible to have the bar showing the weight range 0 to 30kg? And then for the bar to increase by the weight of each product placed in the shopping cart?

Yes I thought that would be the case. I was hoping someone might know of an existing solution that I could insert into the code but I'll keep digging. Thanks for the reply.

I too have looked into this without success. Personally I reviewed RecurHub and Recharge. Neither would integrate easily for me but you may have more luck. I will probably go down the PayPal route that seems to suffice for many or perhaps the Stripe option.

I am completely new here so apologies if I have chosen the wrong area for my question. I am building a website in BigCommerce. I have several thousand products in my store, all of which have a field containing their weight in grams. With the shipping solution integrated the 'select item/s-add to cart-ship' process is pretty much taken care of, but I would like (if possible) to include a visual representation (something akin to a progress bar perhaps) which shows the customer how much of their 10, 20 or 30kg allowance (these figures being dependant on the shipping zone allowances, and including a minimal set weight for packing materials) has been subsumed by the products added to the cart. I would like the 'progress bar' to appear when an item is added to the cart, and probably manually closed (rather than timed). I would be very grateful for any advice. Matt