James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
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What are the different ways of doing this? Im writing a website for my dads mail order company and obviously he wants users to be able to order online. He doesnt want to use paypal/nochex so what are the other options?
Obviously I could set up a secure server and have payments stored on that but its only a small company and i dont think that would be a very cost effective or practical option.
Are there companies that offer an online ordering service? So i could just link to their website when the user clicks "order"?
Cheers, James
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Brett
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http://www.worldpay.com
http://www.ccbill.com
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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If you can process credit card numbers then secure server solution would do the job. Doesn't work the same as regular processing though because of distance selling and refund conditions.
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James
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hhmmm, I dont think its worth getting into all that for such a small company, what exactly would i need to set that up Ian and what sort of costs are there?
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Antz
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sure if you go into any bank now a days they can advise you on this... they might even be able to set it up for you and provide you with a basic template for your site?
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Skinz
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you can write it yourself but you will need to buy a secure certificate from verisign or such, and its not cheap and i dont think they will give you one unless your a registered company either
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K2 GTi
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We use worldpay.
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TNM
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world pay is the best bet.
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MULLER2
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We have a e-commerce website that has about 5500 products. When an order is placed the 'data' is stored into a database on a secure server. A Thankyou email is sent to the customer and a email is sent to our mail order team which contains the order ID. The Mail order agents then login via a secure login page and once verified they enter the order ID and order data is displayed on screen. The agent then prints the order off and is process via a PDQ (using the option CardHolder Not Presnt) then the reciept is printed and the order is packed and shipped.
This is how quite a few companies do the order processing online and while yes there are errors its cheap as chips.
Company turn over about 30k per week via web.
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lewie
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Registered: 21st Feb 05
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i use protx & streamline
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Tim
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quote:
Originally posted by Skinz
you can write it yourself but you will need to buy a secure certificate from verisign or such, and its not cheap and i dont think they will give you one unless your a registered company either
Don't need to be a registered company.
Also verisign are stupidly expensive. There are cheaper alternatives nowadays which are still recognised by over 99% of browsers...
http://www.instantssl.com (Comodo Group)
(We use them for the CS secure certificate -- which is used for our webmail system)
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lewie
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Registered: 21st Feb 05
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using protx http://www.protx.com you don't need SSL as the customer is transferred to protx to input their card details etc.
(i use an SSL cert from GeoTrust for when customers put in address etc (just to make them feel that bit more secure  ) even though it's not really needed!)
[Edited on 06-06-2005 by lewie]
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