Can anyone give me a ball park figure for the following web site to be designed and hosted?

5-10 pages listing a catalogue of 20-30 different items

User registration (allowing past orders to be checked etc)

Checkout facility allowing credit card payments to be made

Tried actinic catalogue software? you could do it yourself

http://www.actinic.co.uk/

Here's a couple we set up for someone a few years ago

http://www.theindiashop.co.uk/acatalog/

http://www.bbbikeshop.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

Tried actinic catalogue software? you could do it yourself

http://www.actinic.co.uk/

Or check out this:

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One word of warning the credit card processing on all the online stores is not fool prof and you can still get caught.....and guess who looses out? it's not the card company...so be careful...especially if you get a load of orders from Indonesia of all places :thumbdwn:

Also a lot of them (if you don't use PayPal) will require a Merchant ID. That is not easy to get hold of and costs too :(

There are quite a few bits & pieces around that you could build a working site from... www.hotscripts.com

As said before, payment processing does cost (can't remember how much right now). Also if you want someone to put the site together for you, I would guess you'll be looking over

No more than 20 quid a month + fees for a 99.9% sla managed account...fees will be in the region of paypal, but there are a half dozen viable processors outside of paypal. They are expensive unless you can convince your bank of a turnover more than 6k pa for a merchant account, but thats another level.

All software to do that can be sourced for free. Yes it can and it's better than many paid for products. The price is in finding the people who know and understand it all....but thats where your in luck

Or as mentioned, services can be sourced with rates for what you want varying up to silly moeny for silly technology for that requirement.

If you want to know more feel free to PM me..

PayPal and WorldPay are probably worth considering as they take most payment methods and don't really cost that much

WorldPay are actually pretty expensive. Looking at a setup fee, usually an annual fee, then about 3% on each credit card and about 25p on each debit card transaction. They also sometimes charge for settlements depending on how you have the package structured.

For this, the cardholder is liable for all transactions - so any fraud is paid for by the retailer. They do sell insurance for this though.

Then, if you want it as anything other than a Payment Service Provider, you then have the issue of integrating it into your website (at a cost).

For the money, I'd rather go with Barclays Merchant Services.

There are a few cheaper options out there, if you have a look on new business startup websites there's usually a few recommendations.

Customer registration and the products will require a back-end database - could be modestly expensive if you were paying a developer to sort out a bespoke solution for you, if you don't mind getting your hands dirty there are plenty of cheap hosts out there who will let you have a database. You also might need to familiarise yourself with the data protection act.

If you want to run any of the site securely (which, if you have integrated payment processing then you'll need to), you'll need to buy a secure certificate - about

Paypal is a no-go really. I dont think our potential customers will really be wanting to register with another site just to make payments to me.

The site will need to be similar to an online CD/DVD shop but the products will be different.

Thanks for the advice, I'll PM you later, Colin

I made this site last summer using Actinic.

www.tiktak-it.co.uk

PayPal is proving to be very popular with my customers.

Worldpay is expensive and not very user friendly, but the telephone support is very good when checking out suspicious purchases.

Moving over to Protx very soon as I think they are better in every way, costs and user interface.

Use 1&1 for the hosting, but their shop builder was a bit basic.

Martin

Tried actinic catalogue software? you could do it yourself

http://www.actinic.co.uk/

Here's a couple we set up for someone a few years ago

http://www.theindiashop.co.uk/acatalog/

http://www.bbbikeshop.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

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I heard a radio programme about them a while back. Apparently they also keep the money for 2 months before handing it on to you, so you might consider your cashflow position before committing to them.

You don't need to register with paypal to pay via cards

You don't need to register with paypal to pay via cards

You're quite correct...there's the "click here if you don't Paypal account" button...

Can't believe I forgot that.

Rob.

Note that you will need to upgrade your account for that to work though, i.e. be able to accept donations/payments in that sense. I think it's called premier account or summit, can't be bothered to check as my pizza is due to arrive (soz, but you can understand the need to feed )

Pretty sure the PayPal business account is a premier - you'd need this anyway to take any kind of cards though. Doesn't cost anything to upgrade though, except in terms of fees...

Rob.