Fine Art Photographer

[Guest]

Hi All

 

I have decided to sell my work online and wondered if anyone can give me some pointers on showing my work off effectively and allowing for various options on framing etc.

 

Although I'm proficient in most technical aspects and a fast learner I need some pointers to consider in my planning so I can fast track my store.

 

My biggest dilemma is payments/ssl/cosmetics my development site is http://www.williamwilsonfineart.com/catalog/index.php and the hosting by smallorange has both ssl and certificate facilities, however I have no idea which payment system I should consider.

[Jack_mcs]

Deciding on which payent module to use is strictkly a financial one, at least initially. PayPal is the usuall choice since there is no monthly fee. Once the volume sales reach around $1,000/month, it would be better to go with Authorize.net. If you already have your own credit card terminal and account, then you may want to consider using that instead.

 

Jack

[Guest]

Thanks for the advice Jack; at present I don't sell on the net only art galleries so PayPal would be an acceptable option. I did see some posts on problems with orders being left incomplete due to PayPal's inability to return you to the checkout.

[philb]

Thanks for the advice Jack; at present I don't sell on the net only art galleries so PayPal would be an acceptable option. I did see some posts on problems with orders being left incomplete due to PayPal's inability to return you to the checkout.

 

 

The paypal IPN contribution is supposed to solve that problem. I've installed it but not went live yet to try it out.

 

Phil

[Guest]

The paypal IPN contribution is supposed to solve that problem. I've installed it but not went live yet to try it out.

 

Phil

 

Thanks Phil

[VPSsupport]

Thanks Phil

 

Hi William :thumbsup:

 

I have used worldpay on a customers site and it is working, so if you are thinking about this option send me a pm and I would be happy to share my experience.

[buzuc]

Have you tried the WP currency update contrib ??

 

I've got a message like this :

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to select.worldpay.com:80 in f:\easyphp1-8\www\catalog\admin\includes\classes\currency_update.php on line 48

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in f:\easyphp1-8\www\catalog\admin\includes\classes\currency_update.php on line 48

 

Someone to help me ????

[kabuto_666]

Hi All

 

I have decided to sell my work online and wondered if anyone can give me some pointers on showing my work off effectively and allowing for various options on framing etc.

 

Although I'm proficient in most technical aspects and a fast learner I need some pointers to consider in my planning so I can fast track my store.

 

My biggest dilemma is payments/ssl/cosmetics my development site is http://www.williamwilsonfineart.com/catalog/index.php and the hosting by smallorange has both ssl and certificate facilities, however I have no idea which payment system I should consider.

 

The Latest Authorize.net Contrib works pretty good. And getting SSL certificate installed a Apache server running Plesk control panel is a very simple. (as long as you are thorough). Far as the cosmetics, it will take some learning and poking to understand how the layout structure of oscommerce work and then it's all based on you understanding of CSS. You can go pretty far out with CSS and oscommerce. check out Zen Garden to see what you can do with CSS.