SadisticPeppers
eXtreme Business
Not sure where else to put this (and many apologies if this is in the wrong group), but after much trial and error, and a fortuitous recommendation from PexPeppers, I finally have my storefront up and running how I wanted it.
The biggest stumbling block by far, was factoring in the cost of shipping. I'm not exaggerating when I say that alone has vexed me for a couple months now. Not only that, pretty much every other shopping cart solution I looked at didn't have what I wanted, I couldn't set it up anywhere close to how I wanted with plugins, just getting it set up was too cumbersome, or they wanted a bunch of money up-front, despite several recommendations from other people on here with storefronts of their own on their websites. After Pex recommended WooCommerce (which, thank the pepper deities is free), it all fell into place. There was a plugin for it that I found in very short order, which allowed me to set up shipping costs based on weight, with cutoff's for each type of flat-rate box. Reason being, while I could fit 3 5-ounce woozies of my hot sauce, but just 1 12-ounce BBQ sauce bottle into a SFRB, but anything more than that required a Medium Flat-Rate Box. Took me all of 10 minutes to iron out the cutoff's amounts, and voila!
I've gone ahead and set up a bunch of products on there, and it's rather basic so far. Feel free and check it out at http://www.sadisticpeppers.com/store, and please feel free to provide any feedback. It's still in its nascent stages, so bear with me.
The biggest stumbling block by far, was factoring in the cost of shipping. I'm not exaggerating when I say that alone has vexed me for a couple months now. Not only that, pretty much every other shopping cart solution I looked at didn't have what I wanted, I couldn't set it up anywhere close to how I wanted with plugins, just getting it set up was too cumbersome, or they wanted a bunch of money up-front, despite several recommendations from other people on here with storefronts of their own on their websites. After Pex recommended WooCommerce (which, thank the pepper deities is free), it all fell into place. There was a plugin for it that I found in very short order, which allowed me to set up shipping costs based on weight, with cutoff's for each type of flat-rate box. Reason being, while I could fit 3 5-ounce woozies of my hot sauce, but just 1 12-ounce BBQ sauce bottle into a SFRB, but anything more than that required a Medium Flat-Rate Box. Took me all of 10 minutes to iron out the cutoff's amounts, and voila!
I've gone ahead and set up a bunch of products on there, and it's rather basic so far. Feel free and check it out at http://www.sadisticpeppers.com/store, and please feel free to provide any feedback. It's still in its nascent stages, so bear with me.
