Many online store owners have products of different shapes, sizes and weights. As we all know shipping charges are calculated based on weight. It’s easy for an online store owner to calculate shipping if all the products are the same weight, but of course that is rarely the situation, and many times items can range from 1 to 100 lbs. With an absence of an online shopping cart which calculates weight, online merchants are left with no option of giving customers an accurate shipping quote. WebCart 11 has raised the criteria for shopping cart software by offering a standard built in feature which would allow online merchants to input product weight and size so that an accurate shipping price can be reported to the online consumer in real time.

A great example of an online store that could benefit from an individual product weight feature within a shopping cart solution, would be a store which sells consumer electronics. Can you remember the last time you visited a radio shack? The last time I went to radio shack, I remember seeing a all-encompassing rang of products from phone cords to plasma televisions. Yes, electronics have many different weights, and an online electronic store should need software which is capable of supporting many different individual product weights.

By creating the individual product weight option, WebCart has made the life of many online retailers a little bit less stressful, and perhaps at the end of the day consumers and online merchants will save money and more importantly frustration.