How to do a E-Commerce Site

[GUJUm0deL]

Hey, my client wants an e-commerce fuction on his site. What I want to know is how to set-up a secure site where he can sell his products online via credit-card and/or checks. I will be using FRONTSERVE as my hosting company, and will be creating the site in Coldfusion.

What is the process involved? I know I need some system like Paypal where they verify the credit card information. How does all that work??

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[deecee]

check with paypal how they integrate -- or yahoo wallets -- but its pretty simple ive heard to use on of these so it shouldnt be a problem.. I think tey take around 3-6% of the cut for themselves.

But your other option is doing all this in house which is abit more complicated and costly.

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[Wullie]

Hi mate,

The customer browses your site and adds products to their cart. Store all of the products with a unique ID, you could use the ClientToken as you are using CF.

When they go to make payment,, you have a form where they enter their address etc (Not the CC details). You then send the cartid and details to the payment gateway by using a simple html form.

They populate the fields on the payment form and process the payment. When the payment is made, you have a script that will accept the post data and update the database based on the cartid. (Paypal uses IPN for this)

When the customer is sent to your thank you page, you pull the details from the database that match their ID and confirm their purchase, send e-mails etc..

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[imstillatwork]

If your not into coding yourself, OSCommerce is one of the best I've seen. Its PHP and FREE! very good from what I've used. COMPLETE commerce package. easy to set up.

If you have to go CF (I prefere it mostly) try the cartman tag at CFhub, its a nice skeleton to add on to for a cart. catalogs are easy enough.