Need some suggestions for a new shopping cart host.

Selling on other Platforms Own website
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Shopify Plan that is $78/mth - $900/year.

The Credit Card Rates shown on the plan sheet are for MC/Visa. Amex is more.
Took me a while to locate, when I wanted to view.
As well, if you do not use them as the gateway, they charge a middleman fee to use your gateway,

The payouts have been fast, I think, within a few days of posting. You do have options on the payout days. Forget what they are.

I have not know downtimes. Whenever I access my site, it is up.

I converted to shopify this year in July. Big job, as I did a great job on the site, and I have a ton of products. since then, I have moved on, and do need to review the site again.

I use Easify for variations on my product. Customer Accounts Hub, for the Customer interface (Shopify and my theme is TERRIBLE0.
iwish for a wish list
Joy as the loyalty program (the most expensive of the plug ins I have @ $25)
Judge me for reviews
and because i need invoices for (some) of my customers I with Oxilayer Invoice.
The sub apps cost $45 per month

Social media, is integrated, so if you have pinterest, tiktok, google, youtube, FB, insta. it is just a matter of set-up, and then a crazy amount of time in ACTUALLY being on SM. hahaha

oh, the first question, about calculating shipping - I honestly do not know. everything on my site is $2 shipping or less.

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Again for me I do not use.

But the inventory has a weight field,
and shopify does calculate per that weight.

Shopify has built in discounted rates with UPS and USPS.

Here is a screen shot.

and a few others - Make a custom Rate, or base it on a price or weight.

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Side note: Shopify has a known glitch with shipping rates, but they do offer a monthly subscription app to fix the glitch.

If you notice buyers entering words like “home” or duplicate street addresses into the “Company Name” box on Shopify addresses, then you may need to pay for an app to add residential surcharges to those shipments.

Shopify will default to commercial rates anytime a “letter/character/number” is placed into the Company Name Box on checkout.

Shopify or the app marketplace has a monthly subscription fee application to override and add the residential fee if needed to the correct addresses.

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