payment system

[Guest_imported]

I`ve been designing websites for a few years but now need to set up a shopping cart on one of my sites. I've seen some affiliate sites (paycalc, worldpay etc) but with paying the set up fees, monthly/yearly fees and costs per transaction, the affiliate company will be getting more than we will be making from the site! (around £1000 per year max)

Would someone be able to let me know I could do this myself and the costs involved in that.

 

[foxdev]

Consider using PayPal to receive payments. It is used by a lot of smaller, low-volume shops. I don't know if they are usable in the UK, though. -----------------
Robert Bradley
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[DeZiner]

Contact any merchant account provider ie: Cardservice International (

http://www.cardservice.com),

Authorize.net(

http://www.authorizenet.com),

etc. They can give you the full jist on running transactions and making a profit. DeZiner
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Remember that amateurs built the Ark.
Professionals built the Titanic

 

[JHoarty]

If you already accept credit cards, you can always set up a shopping cart that collects the customer's information and then simply elect not to integrate that cart with an online payment processor. You'd simply process the orders manually. I agree with you that the online processors are costly to set up and maintain, but the part where you just go to your bank and set up a "merchant account" (to accept VISA/MasterCard) was fairly inexpensive. If you are a corporation or LLC, it's really no big deal. Plus, these days you can go to Thawte or Equifax and turn your server into a secure server for just over $100. John Hoarty
jhoarty@quickestore.com

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