setting up payment general overview

[ian_m]

Hello,

 

This is going to be a very basic question to most here but i am very new to oscommerce and totally new to e commerce. Over the past few weeks I have installed oscommerce and have it set up just as a catalogue for a friends business, he is currently uloading his stock and all is fine, later in the year the next step will be to set it up to sell online and this is where i scratch my head and say now what.

I have searched the forums here and have found some info but cant get a general overview. Does he need to set up an account somewhere and if so where would be the best place for a uk based business, and is it just a case of going into the payment module part of the control panel and setting things up there to deal with transactions viasome account he would have set up. That is the main bit i am baffled with at the moment, also once a transaction is successful how would you set it up to email this to the customer and the business.

As you can tell I really am clueless on this right now and was hoping someone could give me a general overview just to clear things up a bit. sorry this is such a basic question but i really am at the start of the learning curve.

 

Regards

Ian