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Thank you...I'm not up to custom coding.   Can you or someone please recommend a purchased cart that will work best for me, based on my goals, when I'm ready to switch over?  I need it to be really simple, but powerful enough to allow me to code for product going at least to Canada, and to set different zone rates for shipping, item by item.  They all claim to be "easy" but I've been down that road with website builders.   I was working with GoDaddy's website builder, which frustrated me to no end, and I finally gave up and accidentally stumbled onto Weebly, which seems to have a much easier interface, and I prefer it in spite of some minor limitations due to it's ease of use.  (Just to give you some sense of my capability).   Thank you so much for all of your help. 🙂 ... View more

That is GOLDEN!   Okay!  I'm half way there!  I've read just enough to understand what you said!   I have the shipping override variables set in the encrypted button creator, and it's working to charge less for each additional item than the first.   I can see how employing the handling variables would allow for a little extra charge to the whole order for just one small item, and not keep ramping up the shipping for each small item on an order, in case all they order is small items, that will work.  YEAH!!!   Ok, one more question.  I would like to be able to charge reasonably accurate shipping to all 50 states USPS zones 1-8, maybe breaking them down into zones 1-3,4-5,6-8 or something like that.  Is there some way to use that variables box to program for that?  It seems like we have a choice between one flat price to ship an item, or have everything shipped by weight (with dang too few boxes for the ranges) or item count.  And then, there's Canada.    *Sigh* I suppose I'm asking too much.  For a free cart, how far I've been able to get is really quite good.  If my business takes off and makes money, I'd be happy to employ a cart that costs up to a hundred dollars a month and works better.   🙂   Thanks for the help thus far.  I'm making seriously useful progress, at long last! 🙂 ... View more

Thank you so much for your help.   I have spent the rest of the day figuring out how to add [shipping2=$xx.xx] so that at least items can't be ordered insanely with no shipping consideration.   Do you have a reference I could look at that might give me some ideas for copy/paste with maybe minor adjustments that even I could figure out, to put into that spot at the bottom of "Step3: advanced features" on my button editing?   I'm so lost, so overwhelmed, and so need this to work.  I wish I could afford to just pay somebody who knows how to do this stuff.    Ever grateful for what you can offer me. 🙂 ... View more

I was planning to upgrade to the Paypal Advanced for $5 per month, and would even consider the Pro at $30/month, but I need it to work better than this.  Honestly, having discovered this little glitch of being able to order unlimited amounts with one shipping fee...I can't see how this works for anybody. 😞   Thank you for your input.  Greatly appreciated. ... View more