On Wed, August 22, 2007 1:55 pm, Ed D. said: > Hi, > I'm ready to embark into uncharted territory. > > I host a website on my OpenBSD 4.0 stable > server. > This website is for a person who makes handmade > wood products on a small scale. > > He just informed me he wants to use > authorize.net to set up taking credit card payments > for his products form his website. > > This to be done with a shopping cart setup with > the customer paying with their credit card. > > I assume to do something like this, I need to first set > up a database that will keep track of products in > inventory, and be able to update this database as > products are sold. > Then tie this in with the checkout and payment > process. > > Does anyody have any experience using > authorize.net in a setup like this?
I've done it, on a couple of different systems. I'd suggest, for this application, that you look around at different shopping cart solutions to find one that can be tweaked to fit what you are doing. Many of them either have built-in or plugin support for authorize.net, and nearly all can track inventory for you. That would be a _lot_ easier than trying to build everything by hand. I'd recommend shopping carts, but I haven't done this enough to have used more than a couple, and a lot of the decision will be in the 'feel' of the site, and how much you need to customize it for your needs. Many of the carts aren't free, either, so it may depend on the level of business you are expecting which are acceptable. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
