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MIKdUB

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Hello folks,

 

I'm a web designer and recently a potential client asked not to only design a site but to set up an online store. I only do design, so web developement is out of my expertise. But i'm willing to give it a shot. I've read around and I've discovered some answers for some of my questions, but I still have some and I'm hoping some of you folks can help with get an answer. I'm sure they're no brainers, but I'm new to the e commerce scene, so please bare with me.

 

Questions:

 

How is an order procesed? Assuming everything is set up correctly such as setting up a payment module (like paypal or authorize.net) and the whole online store is set up, how will this work? Will my client recieve an email telling him/her that there was an order placed and to go ahead and process the order? So, in other words, if I were the client, once a customer purchases a product from my online store and of course all shipping and taxes are calculated, would I recieve an email basically telling me to grab that particular item from my physical store/storage/warehouse and fedex/usps/ups it myself to the client? Is that how it works? Or am I way off?

 

Thanks in advance folks

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Pretty much, that's how it works.

 

If you are a web designer (more familiar with notepad.exe and not WYSIWYG) then PHP's learning curve will come easily to you for customizing the site and installing contributions.

 

I just read the above and I hope I don't come off sounding insulting. I just mean that PHP is a text environment and if you already know html text, you'll be cool.

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