Website help please

[Spidersleg]

I sort of have a website for my business. It was setup by an ex friend and I was added as contributor, so I am able to change prices add new products etc. But I can't upgrade the site to take gift cards or other benefits for a paid website. I have no contact with said friend and Weebly will not give me the site or promote me to owner without consent from ex friend and he has not replied to their emails. I feel the site is holding my business back now as it is the OG free site from years back with limited functions.

My question is, what are my options ?

I have the domain name with GoDaddy, that is all in my name and paid by me.

Any help greatly appreciated

Edit to add. It's not massive turnover online, it's more of a supplement to the shop sales, but as such could grow with a better functioning website.

[loafer123]

New website on Spotify/Woocommerce/Ecwid and get GoDaddy to redirect to it.

[Spidersleg]

loafer123 said:

New website on Spotify/Woocommerce/Ecwid and get GoDaddy to redirect to it.

Thank you, I've heard good things about Ecwid. It's really that simple ? Do I need to do anything to the weebly site to stop conflicts or anything. Sorry for noob questions.

[Redarress]

Hi,
Unless you can get you ex-friend to play ball I think ,as you have already guessed ,the old site is toast.

I would suggest Wordpress with a Woocommerce "shop" . I am slight biased since that is what we do

If you would like just a chat about options just send me an email through here and I will respond back..

We also do Shopify sites but find them limited in design but actually love Wordpress/ Woocommerce and find it ideal for this kind of project.

Edited by Redarress on Friday 28th October 22:54

[alfabeat]

Redarress (above), just rebuilt our web site in a very similar situation.

I can thoroughly recommend him.

[Redarress]

Thanks for that Alphabeat

Appreciate the recommendation

[loafer123]

Spidersleg said:

Thank you, I've heard good things about Ecwid. It's really that simple ? Do I need to do anything to the weebly site to stop conflicts or anything. Sorry for noob questions.

We’ve used Ecwid for 8 years, and it is good. It is particularly good at very simple shops, and for websites that want to own and control their environment. For the former, their starter shop is done automatically for every user, you just load the products. For the latter, because Ecwid is just a panel inside your website, you control the environment whereas Shopify, for example, requires you use their themes and host with them.

That being said, with Readdress being recommended below, there would be a real attraction if I were you, to consider a one stop outsourced solution.

As for the old website, it will continue to be on a server somewhere, lost, alone, and never accessed again!