Online Store Anyone Know A Simple Way?

[Guest]

Opening a site for music artist, want to be able to sell shirts glass's key chains and cd's from the begining any simple ways of doing it? How much is it to use credit cards on it?

[dbmasters]

I would recommend not doing it yourself yet, unless you expect a lot of business from it.

What I have done in most cases is set up the artist with a PayPal.com account and let PayPal handle all the SSL, security, encryption and other privacy issues involved with taking people's credit card number. I have such as example at http://www.mootdavis.com/store.php and that method has worked well for me.

Other options are places like CafePress.com and others like it.

If you choose to do it yourself, there are shopping cart scripts at hotscripts.com and other repositories that would work well, but you would need to buy an SSL certificate for your server space and get up to speed on how to handle such secure data as credit card numbers...

[BigChill]

When you say a lot of bizness, wouldnt i be the othe way around? and how much does it cost is it a percentage of sales or a monthy fee? thanks

[dbmasters]

No, if it is a lot of business it may be worth the time and energy to set up your own store. If there really isn't that much and it's simply more for promotional reasons rather than squezing every penny you can out of it, it may be worth leaving the technical stuff up to somebody like PayPal and pay the meeger charges they do.

[Ben]

A merchant account would run you at least $25/mo in fees (not including the per transaction fees + % of sale). Then you have between $50-$100 for a 1yr SSL Certificate (for secure shopping for your customers).

Lastly of course you have the actual cart design, hosting etc expenses. :)

[Big Chill]

So the cheapest way is? $25 with companys having everything set up?

db told it i guess, hire a good web designer and let him/her make it, and it would run on the site and i would need an static ip and ssl?

or

pay a company to do it for around $25 and fee's

is that about right>?

anyone here at host pc make any merchant web sites with either of the methods above

[dbmasters]

I use PayPal and I have paid nothing other than a small percentage each time somebody purchases something.

[Big Chill]

So that is what the that music site uses? just with pay pal they accept c.c. #'s and pay pal. honest the design looks crummy, but still it is a lot better then my current page B) You keep track of it? like ordres for the cd's and murchandise.

no ssl? its just a direct link to pay pal? how secure is it for customers

seperate from the above this forum is freeware type thing, i have seen it in quite a few sites here. is it easy to set up? color change? does it take a lot f space up and bandwidth, to a point were its worth it to g to something like ez board and pay for that to link it to my site.

[dbmasters]

Most any site I sell stuff on uses PayPal, but yes, the music site I listed above does as well. As far as keeping track of purchases, I can't vouch for that music site because it's a clients site, not mine, but purchases on my sites I keep track of, plus, PayPal logs every transaction and keep the info on it as well.

The SLL and all related security measures for transactions are handled by PayPal, so you need do nothing except link how your PayPal account tells you to link.

[Big Chill]

as ali g would say WICKED, so no setup fee they just take a percentage, i am checking reviews of that paypal service as we speak.

another topic at the bottom invision power board, i also looked i went to phpbb i def. want to have forums. being freeware is phpbb a resource hog, i'v been digging through posts so i can learn as much as i can without bugging staff and geting into little scuffles, joe posted that if you use to many resources that you can get banned so phpbb being freeware does it eat up cpu cycles? it looks as though invision is pretty commercial. i am gonna mett with the code and change the color a bit also(if i can) what forum is ok to use and easy to setup.

and just noticed the time you posted dan, if your still up i am not sure how it works but i'v decided i'm gonna renew with a different plan, joe sent an email and its in the help desk, its okay to close out my old plan in the atlanta server, i have a month left on a $25 plan so if you could set it up, if your up that would be sweet, i'm gonna renew with the 15.98 plan money order first thing next morning ;) (4-5 hours from now) i also want to add a domain my total should be a few cents less than 33, i'll be here watching for any updates

[dbmasters]

PHPBB is a resource, and also it seems to always be having security holes found in it as well. Invision Power Board (such as HostPC uses) is the best freeware one I have found. Though, like many forums, it has 80% more features than the average user will ever use. IPB can be used freely, tho their web site does not promote it much. I woudl recommend that forum, that is, until I release mine :-)

[Big Chill]

if you have one in dev i'll test it, you really that deep into this or that was a joke, it takes usually a team of programmers to make a form.

[dbmasters]

My forum in testing is at my scripts site, it's the support forum for my freeware script. No team, just me hackin away at the keyboard.

http://scripts.dbmasters.net/

[Big Chill]

you should atleast have your own forum setup up on your own site come on bro

[dbmasters]

http://scripts.dbmasters.net is my own site...

I also have a pretty large forum at http://www.homerecordingconnection.com/ which is also my site and I also coded that forum a couple years ago...coded the whole site actually. I also have 2 or 3 ASP based forums on a couple intranet and extranet sites of which you can't see...but they are there...

So there! :P

[Big Chill]

B) Justanotha Junkie you have a YOUR JUST ANOTHER JUNKIE WASTING AWAY.

You have a tom petty zztop thing going for you, were you live/grew up

[dbmasters]

hehehe, I have not heard the Tom Petty comparison before, but the ZZTop thing I have, hell, I still love ZZ!

I am in and grew up in the Twin Cities, Minnesota...VIKINGS country!

That song and 4 others are actually going to go to press in my first "solo" EP this weekend. :D

[Big Chill]

the other has a wicked sound but you screw it up when you started singing. did you make that baseline yourself, the song with the crazy gutar solo in the begining, you made all those sound effects and put it together yourself?

LADIES LOVEEE A SHARP DRESSED MAN thats one of my all tme fav's

i need to make a payment to host pc anyway and i def want to have incentice to build nice site so i am goin your route i read a few bad reviews (paypal freezin acct's lol, imma take a chance start with regular(can you accept cc) or just go with premiere?

[dbmasters]

I wrote, arranged, mixed and recorded all the songs. I don't do the singing or lead guitars, I have had friends do all that cuz I am not that good at either, other than singing and leads, it's all me.

I have used PayPal for three years or more and I have not yet had one single solitary problem, no acct freezes, no lost money...no nothing like that. I know others have, but I have not.

[tnas]

the other has a wicked sound but you screw it up when you started singing.


Don't hold back now... tell DB what you really think! :lol:

[dbmasters]

Fortunately for me, I don't really care that much. ;) I make music I like...and reproduce it on CD/MP3 the best I can...if others don't like it...heck with 'em :)