Accepting Payments Online?

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I'm looking at starting up an e-commerce website. Obviously, to do this I will need to build a Shopping Cart so customers can pay via my website. I'm not looking to use a third party tool such as PayPal. I have heard that you can use Perl, Coldfusion or Transactional Databases in MySQL to write scripts to build shopping carts. I'm hoping that someone can give me the best overall solution considering-
1. ease of use for customer
2. ease of use for developer
3. security

Please let me know if there is more effective ways that I haven't heard of yet, as well? It would also be great if you could let me know how long I would be looking at and what the difficulty would be to build something like this?

I spent many months trying to develop a good shopping cart, and in the end I bought a template for about $150. On my web site, about 30% is web site and about 70% shopping cart! It is not an easy task.

I very highly recommend these people, as their code is rock solid, their support forums are well attended and they have a great selection: ECommerceTemplates.com.

To begin accepting credit cards, you will need a gateway and a merchant account. They come from two different places, so start with the merchant account and they will set up with the gateway, most likely through authorize.net. You cannot go directly to authorize.net, you must use one of their resellers.

There are also many 'full service' sites that will give you the entire package under their name. The disadvantage of this is that the billing is in their name, so sometimes customers are not too comfortable when they see you don't process your own credit cards.

HTH

Regards,

WTG

Try also the dreamaccount, it has a full features like membership, automatic activation after payment, mass emailer, etc. visit their site and see the demo. http://www.dreamcost.com

Hey i know somewhere where you can accept payments online, its free to sign up, no monthly cost and you can incorperate it into your own website, they also provide a free shopping trolly to adde to yuor site if you need ont, so you dont have to worry about ssl.

The name is pay pal i have been using it for ages they are really cheap all you pay is a small fee on each payment you recive and thats it!

check its out

https://www.paypal.com/uk/mrb/pal=B6NPJF7X6QALY

Go away, sh1tbrick. Why do you have a referral ID in your url anyways? Are we dumb enough to actually put that in?