[Sjackson]

Hi need some advice please a freind of mine has a IT support company and he is planning on selling his services on the web. He has asked me if its possible to setup buy it now buttons (great easy) but then he said he would like to go through his merchant bank not paypal he has a ssl cert but i have never setup anything like this does the merchant give you code for implamenting something like this need some advice

Regards
Stu

[BlueDreamer]

You'll probably need a payment gateway such as Worldpay, Sagepay etc - these companies provide API's that you can include in your own scripts. Saying that, a simple shopping cart would be the easiest way to implement payments for his "products", the big advantage here is that all the coding is done for you so all he'd have to do is sign up with the payment gateway and activate it in the cart system.

[Sjackson]

BlueDreamer, on 07 September 2009 - 10:21 PM, said:

You'll probably need a payment gateway such as Worldpay, Sagepay etc - these companies provide API's that you can include in your own scripts. Saying that, a simple shopping cart would be the easiest way to implement payments for his "products", the big advantage here is that all the coding is done for you so all he'd have to do is sign up with the payment gateway and activate it in the cart system.

cheers bluedreamer what cart would you recomend for something as small as 3 products

[BlueDreamer]

That depends what you need for ordering the services...

1. Do you need customers to register before purchasing, have it optional, or no registration at all?
2. Do you need to show product options for a service, ie Service 1 Silver, Service 1 Gold etc?
3. Do you need to offer previous customer discounts or incentives on future orders?
4. Do you need optiosn for customer promotions like newsletters?

The number of products doesn't really matter, it's the service you need. For instance, the basic Sagepay package cost £20 per month for about 333 transactions per month (1000 per quarter), and includes fraud screening, PCI compliance etc.

[Sjackson]

BlueDreamer, on 08 September 2009 - 10:19 AM, said:

That depends what you need for ordering the services...

1. Do you need customers to register before purchasing, have it optional, or no registration at all?
2. Do you need to show product options for a service, ie Service 1 Silver, Service 1 Gold etc?
3. Do you need to offer previous customer discounts or incentives on future orders?
4. Do you need optiosn for customer promotions like newsletters?

The number of products doesn't really matter, it's the service you need. For instance, the basic Sagepay package cost £20 per month for about 333 transactions per month (1000 per quarter), and includes fraud screening, PCI compliance etc.

3 and 4 are needed but also need these aswell

1 setup recurring payments
2 They want to offer the users options to pay in full or pay a first month fee of £39.99 then 10 months of £7.50 – is this possible in any cart system

Regards Stu

[BlueDreamer]

For recurring payments (subscriptions) Paypal is the easiest to set up because it's core Paypal functionality - see Paypal documentation because it's literally changing a few settings in your Paypal account and a form on your site. If you wanted to use a payment gateway you'll need the API that the gateway supply you and integrate it into your own script.