The shopping cart portion, on the other hand, is an entirely different animal. Weebly is very PayPal friendly and comes with pre-designed elements that allow you to add a name, image, description and price to products, all including a Buy Now or Add to Cart button.
The only problem is that both buttons have serious drawbacks.
Add to Cart is a very familiar button, in that it is versatile and allows customers to "customize" their order by buying many items at once. But since our products are one-of-a-kind, there is literally only one of each item. But Add to Cart has a quantity section where a customer can order, say, 15 of a certain necklace (and pay for it). That is not at all preferable, so I realized that a Buy Now button, while being less convenient, would prevent overbuying.
The problem with the Buy Now button is that, say a customer buys three necklaces, they would be buying them individually, which would mean three separate shipping fees. For one package with three necklaces in it. The price would skyrocket, and customers would understandably be upset.
PayPal allows custom button creation that allows you to set stock counts and only charge so much shipping for a certain number of items, but the problem is that each product would have to have a custom button created for it. Each of those buttons would have to be put on the website independent of the product title, image and description, making the site look sloppier.
Google Shoppingcart is a much better solution, and is supported by Weebly, but the main drawback is that customers would HAVE to set up a Google account, whereas PayPal gives the option of a "Guest purchase."
Needless to say, 5+ hours working on this with no real long-term solution is a bit demoralizing. I think I'm going to go to sleep now and hope tomorrow brings more answers and less problems.
Wish me luck! :D
Ryan
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