Merchant software

[Madison Kelly]

antoniosun-N9AOi2cAC9ZBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> Madison Kelly wrote:
>>>   A friend has started a small, at home business selling customized
>>> children's books. Basically, he needs a merchant app that can take a
>>> customer's billing, shipping and a couple custom fields. Specifically,
>>> the names of the child and their friends/family to work into the story.
>>>
>>>
>> I was involved in a similar situation for a small cultural
>> not-for-profit that was looking for a way to market its memberships and
>> merchandise on-line. . . Your friend should expect to increase his
> product's
>> price by $5.00 to cover the Pay Pal and credit card process fees.
>> http://www.paypal.ca/ca/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_home
>>
>> Another possible solution is a complete on-line hosted operation like
>> GoECart. There are a couple of downsides though. At approximately
>> $3000.00/yr its pricey for a micro business and it's automated data feed
>> requires Quick Books which means added start up costs of Cross Over
>> Office and a Quick Books license.
>> http://www.goecart.com/shopping_cart_software_price.asp
>>
>> Sorry that I couldn't be more helpful, it's just that there's not much
>> available that caters to the micro-business market place.
> 
> Or, if you want to save more on the on-going overhead, custom build a web
> site of your own using osCommerce. The osCommerce is free, and your
> customer can choose from paying by credit card directly, or $5 more with
> Pay Pal.
> 
> I custom built such osCommerce site for my client several years ago.
> 
> Antonio

I'm not familiar with osCommerce... I will take a look at it, thank you!

Madi
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