Hello again,
I looked at shopify, seems cool but only supports google and paypal.
I dont *think* my client wants to use them. But I will double check.
I've worked with the paypal IPN system for subscriptions only.
Never with a cart or multiple items.
John Campbell asked which of the two options my client wanted to use:
I believe they want to use miva merchant to process the cards.
Now, I've read through all the emails and I still don't have a firm grasp
on how that works. I looked on wikipedia for a nice explanation of an
e-commerce transaction, but didn't find it. Anyone know of a graphical
flow chart style explanation with details on each parties responsiblity
and where they fit.
Anyways, the items they are selling are misc hardware items, for wells,
filters, bolts, etc. All tangible goods they will be shipping.
So, if I am to use miva merchant, where does the shopping cart come into
play? I'm assume I have to find a shoping cart that works with Miva
merchant.
- Ben
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From: "Jon Baer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Two part question: Shopping carts & E-commerce
Or why even reinvent the wheel altogether ...
http://www.shopify.com
Worth a look I think ...
- Jon
On Aug 28, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Gary Mort wrote:
Ajai Khattri wrote:
Or even Google Checkout.
I'm not thrilled with Google checkout since it requires you to have your
customer setup a Google account(I think Amazon requires an amazon
account, but the process just appears more streamlined and felt like
setting up a shipping/billing subcomponent of the account rather than 2
accounts).
Ya know, one thing that wasn't mentioned, just what ARE these 10
products they plan on selling?
Let me explain a bit.
If your selling photo's or photo related items(a poster, postcards,
etc) - a saner solution could be to use Menalto Gallery and use their
built in hooks to the various photo printing services. You define your
products, the markups, etc in the printer service, and than just setup
the online digital photos. You can even have 2 versions of the file on
your site, one that is publicly viewable and one high quality one the
photo service will use.
If your selling stuff with emblazoned logo's, tote bags and junk, a lot
of people use CafePress for that, and you can build your own interface
into it to the degree you need it(from redirecting to a skinned
cafepress store, to embedding the iutems inside your site but using
their checkout, to having your own checkout and than you submit the
order to cafepress and have it drop shipped to the customer).
If your selling digital content, there is a whole slew of issues to
think through regarding downloads and such.
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