Hi everyone! What is the best way to put a shopping cart on a web site? Is there an easy way, too?
Also, if I needed to find a contractor to help with a shopping cart/data base, how much am I looking at as far as an hourly/contract rate? Do I pay them up front, 1/2 now 1/2 when finished or all at the end?
Try doing a web search for different Merchant Companies / Sites. You’ll probably have to sign up with one which will then give credit card / online payment support. Lots of times they can provide code (php, etc) to do the payment. Even credit cards companies may have a Merchant area for doing web sales.
Also if you don’t have a website already, you could look into an open source solution such as OS Commerce which has shopping cart abilities.
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Go with Paypal http://www.paypal.com it is the safest way.
try authorize.net.
you can also do paypal, wihich is fairly easy and about 20 bucks a month
Shopping carts are add ons that have to be added to the server that your web site is hosted on.
Usually you have to contact the web hosting company and ask them if they have that ability. If they say yes, then they will charge you more money. Your web site will be moved to another server that has a shopping cart. They will then provide you with the code that you need to allow your web page to talk to the shopping cart utility.