online shop

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    achorste is offline Valued Member

    online shop

    A friend has asked me to design an online shop for them - the design isn't a problem but can anyone help in how to set up an online shop - what software to use, paypal accounts, how to integrate the shop with the site etc?

    Many thanks


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    D-A-L is online now D-A-L Administrator
    Hi achorste

    Depends what funcionality they need, there are a ton of scripts http://www.hotscripts.com which will do this for you but again depends on the functionality needed. Paypal isn't a bad way to go and also 2checkout.

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    owen is offline D-A-L Team Member (UK)
    http://www.oscommerce.com/ is a popular choice as well

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    achorste is offline Valued Member
    I'm a little confused, been to oscommerce - looked fine, any idea on how to set it up and integrate it into my site? any help would be great.

    Just like to say thanks for all the help you guys have given over the past few months. Nice one.

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    BigT is offline Valued Member
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    A second vote for OSCommerce although a lot of small businesses use Actinic Catalogue. To use OSCommerce you need a web server capable of running php and MYSQl although I believe other databases are supported. As for integrating it you can either customise it yourself with a template or else call the PHP code from within your own web site. A good example of this is this very forum where the software in this instance is vBulletin but D-A-L has put the hard work into giving it a theme to fit in with the whole site.

    As for payment processors, I use 2Checkout.com a lot and a similar product is available from www.paysystems.com . I believe NatWest are doing a similar UK-centric offering. If they've already got a merchant account then their bank will be able to provide a service ro else www.worldpay.com is a solid choice.

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