The best thing you can do is force the page to be viewed only by https which is not hard to do and can be done several ways. (BTW, unless you link to the non https version of that page users should...

And we are here to help but we're not here to do your homework for you. If you show an effort and are truly stuck on something please post here and ask for help. But don't just post your homework and...

For a true merchant account a credit check will be done but that's not a big deal. Considering the benefits of a true merchant account over a third party processor, under most circumstances, it is...

There are no free payment gateways or free merchant accounts. How you actually process a credit card will vary as each payment gateway and third party processor uses a different API. No audit or...

The monthly fee is a little high. It shouldn't be more then $10. There also should not be any annual fee. Otherwise this is not a bad deal.


The American Express rate they quoted you is...

It's sort of built to compete with Paypal. It's just another alternative payment system. It's free to sue through the end of the year and in general it seems to help improve conversion rates. It's...

Authorize.Net is not a payment processor. They are only a payment gateway.

They're not trying to be a monopoly. They're trying to diversify because they know their current core markets won;'t exist in ten years and need alternative sources of revenue to stay relevant and...

Then show some effort. Have you written anything yet?

That's great. Unfortunately we're not here to do your homework for you. Just like that guy in the other thread. :)

What's great about the Internet is you don't have to have money to make money. Plus anyone, anywhere can do it.

1) Publish websites with original content and put advertising on it

2) Publish websites with original content and charge a subscription to access it

3) Sell stuff

PHP is all coding. And doing it for ecommerce is more challenging because security is even more important plus a bug could mean lost revenue for your client. If you are not an experienced programmer...

Nope. That shouldn't cause any problems at all.

I can't recommend any carts as I only ever write my own. But if your client wants to use Earthlink's ecommerce bundle then use it. If they want it you might as well give it to them. If they're ever...

I don't know. But since i never even knew they offered a shopping cart I would say it might be a good idea to avoid it.


That depends on the shopping cart. Most likely it will just be a matter...

Once you are selling more then 2 or 3 items the number of items becomes irrelevant. 5 or 50,000 it's all the same.

You will need a database but the shopping cart will take care of that for you. You only need sku numbers if you wish to have custom numbers like that. Otherwise the shopping cart will take care of...

I can't recommend a shopping cart as I write custom solutions for my clients. But if you're selling typical products virtually every shopping cart will suit your needs. In this case you should be...

There are a ton of shopping carts out there with various features and such. You will need to make a list of required functionality and prioritize them and then see what shopping cart matches up to it...

Developing it on a Mac is no different then developing t on a PC or Linux.

You need:

1) A shopping cart with order management
2) A merchant account with payment gateway and/or Paypal
3) SSL...

Sorry, but we're not here to do your homework for you. Please show what you've done so far as unless you've done a decent amount of work already you're not going to get another response.

This sounds very custom and will almost certainly need to be custom coded. That usually is the case with very specific ecommerce needs.

Each feed is different as each shopping site has their own format for feeds. You will need to go to each site and find out what format they are expecting and create each feed separately.

Have you done any research of your own? What do you have so far?

This is a myth. There is no evidence of this at all. No one has ever been able to prove this and countless hundreds of thousands of websites prove this to be untrue. The quality of the content is not...

I would assuming if they are comparing outsourced security to internal security then internal security would mean security put in place by the company through its own efforts without relying on an...

Just be careful with CCAvenue as they currently do not accept MasterCard which is the second most popular credit card after Visa.

Basically what I was saying was they wouldn't be your partners if it wasn't the most profitable option. And I don't mean just in the terms of potential income as a direct result of the relationship...

Most partnerships are formed as a financial decision where both parties benefit. It would be nice if companies made decisions based on morals and ethics but we all know that's not how it works.

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Some may offer free gateway setups but most don't.


Actually you only need to be a reseller to be listed. You can be a scam artist and bad at what you do and still be listed there.


Since...

That should be how it works. It is possible to have a separate merchant account provider and payment gateway provider but it is not common and there really isn't a benefit to it. It's nice to get...

Verisign is way overpriced. You're paying for their name and that is it. Godaddy's SSL certificates should work fine although I recommend their high assurance certificates so you can be sure all...

You will definitely need to address your "security issues" before establishing another merchant account as whomever you go with will most likely have the same issues with your account.

It's not the domain extension that affects your ability to use a payment provider. It's your location. If you located in the UK then Paypal, 2checkout, and Worldpay are all options available to you....

Look at the URL. It's even says, "payment gateways". But yes, a few of them are third party providers but most are pure gateways. Without a merchant account a pure gateway just won't work.

Those are only payment gateways and not actually merchant account processors. Without the merchant account those gateways are useless.

Why not write a shopping cart that can connect to all of the major gateways and Paypal?

It's easy to explain why someone would want to build it themselves: total control. When you build it yourself you can customize every aspect of the site in terms of appearance and functionality. This...

Authorize.net is only a payment gateway, not a merchant account. Without a merchant account associated with it it just won't work.

And it all depends where you are located, average ticket size,...