ecommerce?????
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- leftwave
i've done a bunch of frontend designs for websites and now i'm trying to figure out how to set up a clients site so they can sell stuff by having their users enter their credit card info.
it seems easy enough since there's a million sites out there that do this, so i'm trying to figure out the EASIEST and LEAST EXPENSIVE way to do this for my client.
anyone...?
- E__________0
paypal?
- leftwave0
paypal would work, but my client is looking for more of a complete ecommerce setup. any other ideas...?
- E__________0
Try selling through Amazon.
Otherwise paypal can help you with setting up a system. There are also different software comps who offer solutions.
- leftwave0
E_____
thanks for all your good advice, but i guess what i'm looking for is the ability to completely design a website for my client that will allow them to sell their products on. i think what i need is a merchant account to use with a shopping cart and a credit card processor...?
- E__________0
You can get a merchant account at paypal, which also adds a trustworthy, familair name to your website. You take a small percentage, but that's all.
I am also looking into this stuff for a client of mine, so if you find anything useful could you please let me know.
good luck (I am off to bed now, 2 AM here).
- skelly_b0
you are aiming high. you need to consult a professional web developer with ecommerce experience. there is no cheap an easy here. spend the money and do it right.
paypal does have a system that looks simple enough that allows you to process payments without sending them to paypal
- leftwave0
alrighty then, paypal it is...?
- effour0
nope... http://www.oscommerce.com/
it's free, its got more modules then you can shake a stick at, I set one up a few years ago, wokred great, had every automated, canada post quotes, UPS, hooked up wit out existing POS system.
I'm by no means a programmer and I was able to set a working system in a few months...
- leftwave0
wow, oscommerce.com looks great and free!
it seems like this will do a good job of setting up the products and the shopping cart for the site, what about the credit card stuff?
- enahs0
ecommerce: MIVA
- kld0
how the waves left, any south swells this summer?
- enahs0
south swells are great. Puerto Nuevo.....La Palapas!
- enahs0
2advanced offers ecommerce solutions...check it
- effour0
Personally we used http://www.moneris.com/index.php… to process our transactions. A module was created by them for OSCommerce, basically you get your moneris account, you can setup with your oscommerce store and also have a seperate online POS system. it's great.
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wow, oscommerce.com looks great and free!it seems like this will do a good job of setting up the products and the shopping cart for the site, what about the credit card stuff?
- leftwave0
thanks for the help. i'll check out these sites...
PS: waves are teeny tiny. any new hobby ideas?
- kld0
windsurfing
- ********0
cheapest and easist .. yahoo merchant..
used it for small biz and mid side biz.
works beautifully
- leftwave0
i've decided that paypal website payments pro offers a good enough package to allow the customers shop and pay on the website. now i need a program to take care of the shopping cart.
oscommerce is free and that looks good, but i want something that allows me to CUSTOMIZE the look of the storefront more. what do you guys use?
- leftwave0
come on people...
what do you use??? :)
- ********0
I used oscommerce before- it can be customized, and there are templates out there you can get too. To customized it the right way, you would really need to understand the code and what to but where but it can be done just takes work.