Hi All, I am venturing into an e-commerce site for the first time. I'm developing an online store in ASP. I have taken Cheryl Wise's advice to someone in an earlier post and I am going to use the CandyPress (www.candypress.com) shopping cart.
I'd like to be able to keep the shopper at my store through the entire transaction if possible. I know that Authorize.Net's AIM gateway offers this. I'm not sure if the cost is going to prevent me from going with this route or not, though. I would like some advice and opinions on that, please. The other question mark is what all do I need to have set up to start doing this? A merchant account and a business banking account? A gateway (Authorize.Net)? Are there ways to eliminate some of the middle men? I had lunch with my old boss and he says that I can cut someone out of the loop and set up a shopping cart that can do credit card transactions. I believe he was saying that I could skip the merchant account and just have a gateway that interacts with the credit card processors. He tends to talk in circles, though, so it's hard to figure out what he is trying to say. This store is for my own business and so I have a vested interest in doing this the most economical way possible, but also streamlined and professional, too. I'd also like to hear what banks/companies are good to work with. I have heard that Millinium Bank is good. http://www.mbankcard.com Anyone here ever use them? Do you know of sites for e-commerce developers? Sorry for all of the questions, but this is THE group to ask! My normal life is spent working on Intranets and internal web applications = not much exposure to this sort of thing. TIA, -Cheryl ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
