Hello

 

I have been asked by a friend to design a simple website, for a small shop.

 

Initially, it was to be nothing more than providing contact details and a few pictures.

 

Easy ... but after discussion I suggested maybe it would be sensible to add the ability to shop online, as it seems this is the only way to go, as far as retail is concerned.

 

Now here's the problem .. I have no idea how to do this.

 

After a quick Google search, it seems Pay Pal actually provide all the coding required, which looks pretty straightforward.

 

Google Checkout also have a similar product.

 

Fat Free are another company, providing code to copy and past as required.

 

It actually looks far less complicated than I first imagined .. 30 minutes ago and quite doable (if that's a proper word) I thought it would involve banks, security and all that malarkey

 

I am just wondering whether any reader has any ideas, on the shopping carts indivated or maybe others.

 

thanks in anticipation.

Your best bet is to use PayPal Standard API which uses a form to submit to PayPal. All you need to do is simply pass through a few details e.g. amount, emailaddress etc

 

To get the full list of required fields simply view PayPals API docs - it's pretty simple and you should be setup in no time with a simple HTML form and start accepting payments.

Thanks for the info.

 

I think I will stick with Paypal ... at least it's a well known brand, so folk should trust it.

It's a well known brand so go with it, their tech docs are pretty detailed as well so you should have no problem installing it.

 

Another thing you may want to consider is using Google Checkout, if you have a look at search results in google the google checkout feedback also appears in the search results with an icon, not only does this add colour but it's often more noticeable as well.

 

Good for search listings!

 

Good luck