Helping my bro-in-law set up his business. Bascailly it’s selling small engineering supplies to other engineering businesses. He doesn’t need to be able to hand an enourmous range of goods; but it does need to be as cheap as possible & it does need to be able to handle credit cards.
Does anyone know if it’s better to run your own website & buy in e-commerce / shopping cart software & set up your own merchant account so that you can process credit cards?
OR
Is it better to use one of these ready made all in type packages like this one @ £19.99+VAT per month?:
Even if you did go with 1&1 (or a similar package), I would have though you’d still need to have a merchant ID. Some of our customers use www.protx.com for credit card processing.
Originally posted by Muppet #9
[B]Even if you did go with 1&1 (or a similar package), I would have though you’d still need to have a merchant ID. Some of our customers use www.protx.com for credit card processing.
HTH [/B]
Ack, you’re right; I thought the £19.99+VAT included the credit card clearing
Youd be better off geting your own quality web hosting off our muppet#9 and using something like actinic catalog to actually deal with the orders. Nowadays, its easy to set up, and it does the job. (plus if you wanna go all fancy you can modify the hell out of it to get it to do exactly what you want).
Having just spent the last few months building a content managment system with ecomerce in ASP, never again, ill buy actinic next time
