BounceHouseOwner wrote: I need my customers to have the check out experience but I also need to gather additional information the starter isn't giving me.
To gather additional information from your customers related to specific products or during checkout you can use certain custom fields, but indeed, the types of custom fields you need are available in the Business edition only.
See here for more, particularly on
item fields (displaying on product pages) and
order fields (displaying during checkout:
www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...shop-field-form.html