Re: Shopping carts questions

If you're looking for a fully customizable shopping cart solution, I have to
push my fav, WebDNA aka Webcatalog from Smith Micro combined with
Authorize.net processing services.

http://www.smithmicro.com/

You can download the demo which is fully functional on a single user license
to develop locally and then publish to a webDNA enabled host's server.  For
that hosting, I'd have to recommend http://www.webuilders.com

If you need a developer, I'd have to recommend myself  :-)

GK


>
> >Alternatively, try CCNow.  They handle the credit card processing and
host
> >the shopping cart portions of your website while charging a fee per
> >transaction.  That has worked well for smaller businesses that may have
many
> >products but no history to get the merchant services set up through the
> >bank.
> >
> >Teajai Kimsey
> >Budget Website Design
> >http://www.budgetwebsitedesign.com
>
> Hello,
>
> Your post sounded very interesting so I looked at CCNow's demo and store
> gallery.
>
> It seems that CCNow doesn't let you brand your checkout (specifically,
YOUR
> store name is only a printed field on CCNow's checkout sheet! No logo! No
> branding!) AND according to their website, they charge somewhere around
> $12/mo. plus 10% of all sales over $100/month.
>
> That cuts into profitability because standard merchant accounts charge
> between 2-5% of sales to process online transactions. PayPal, another
> service which lets people sell online without merchant accounts, charges
> 2.7% sales plus 30 cents per transaction.
>
> So, for a lackluster presence which I think would turn away customers, I
> pay over 3x as much as PayPal, which has spent many of its own advertising
> dollars over several years establishing its service as the #1 choice of
> eBay sellers...
>
> ...but I have no experience with either CCNow, PayPal, or eBay.  My
> question to Teajai, or any other member of this humble list, is: what is
> your personal experience with CCNow or other online credit card
processors?
>
> Thanks,
> Collette McNeill
>

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