Dangeo1 Posted July 19, 2003 Posted July 19, 2003 I'm new to PHP, and new to e-commerce. I am setting up a site to sell my fathers products (sunglasses and other wares). I have a "test" site of osCommerce and am pleased with the progress I have been able to make. I lack knowledge/advice in the following areas: * shipping - how to calculate properly based on location (US sales only) - UPS, USPS, FedEx plugins available?? - does osCommerce allow for flexible shipping charges from a 3rd party plugin? * Credit Card validation - Can I/How do I validate (in real-time) credit cards? - What does it *usually* cost for credit card processing? - How do I interact with my account once a card has been validated? (have to check on current business account to see if it has any provisions for e-commerce) * SSL - I was planning on using IMHosted (www.imhosted.com) for hosting, they have something about SSL in their basic plan, but will that protect my CC processing? * custom modules - I would like to make a module for downloading/viewing movies to demonstrate the automobile wax and metal polish. Having little experience with PHP, I need pointed in the right direction.
wizardsandwars Posted July 19, 2003 Posted July 19, 2003 * shipping- how to calculate properly based on location (US sales only) - UPS, USPS, FedEx plugins available?? - does osCommerce allow for flexible shipping charges from a 3rd party plugin? The standard USPS shipping modul, once configured properly, will do htis for you. all of those plug9ins are also available in the downloads>>configuration secition. * Credit Card validation- Can I/How do I validate (in real-time) credit cards? - What does it *usually* cost for credit card processing? - How do I interact with my account once a card has been validated? (have to check on current business account to see if it has any provisions for e-commerce) Lots of options here, you cna use a 3rd party processor like paypal, 2checkout, and propay, or you can get your own merchat account gateway. If you plan to process more than $1k per month, you should go with the latter. paypal is by far the easiest to set up, though if you get serious, I would rely on them as your only option. PayPal, is something like 2.9% + .35 of each transaction . Merchant account/gateways are around $30 per month, and 2.25% + .25 per tranaction. Usually your merchant account with batch transmitte all of hte transaction to your bank account on a daily basis. * SSL- I was planning on using IMHosted (www.imhosted.com) for hosting, they have something about SSL in their basic plan, but will that protect my CC processing? Probably a shared SSL. This will work fine for awhile, but I wouldn't suggest it for a long term solution. You'll have to use theie ULS for hte secured page, meaning your url will chage from http://www.yourdomain.com to https:/SSLocked~username/ when the customer hit a securep page HTH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.
Dangeo1 Posted July 19, 2003 Author Posted July 19, 2003 Thanks for your reply, and advice. :) I will look into the options you have mentioned.
Dangeo1 Posted July 20, 2003 Author Posted July 20, 2003 Moving this topic back to the top... in case anybody else has anything they'd like to add.
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