Online Ordering

[ldoodle]

Hiya,

I'm more of an intranet developer, having never done public websites, espcially online ordering.

I have been approached by a friend to sort out their company website with the goal of allowing online buying. I could build the database and front-end in my sleep, but what would be the best way to incorporate the buying system? Is it relatively easy or difficult?

I know this isn't strictly ASP but my design would 99% be ASP based.

Thanks

[catterz]

I've never done this myself, but I believe your friend needs to enroll in a service such as that found at http://www.worldpay.com/, which (with the correct level of service) provides you with code you can integrate with your site to take payments.

Of course you need to make sure you run through SSL.

Alternatively you can use Paypal check-out. Hopefully this post will put you in the right direction.

[yamaharuss]

This is what I do most every day. What exactly do you mean by "incorporate the buying system"?

Accepting credit cards works pretty much like any other form data with some security exceptions. If you are incorporating real-time credit card processing then you would need a payment gateway like fastcharge.net.

Alternatively, the merchant could simply read the credit card numbers from the backend and enter them manually into his credit card machine..

Give us a little more info.

[Kuriyama]

This is what I do most every day. What exactly do you mean by "incorporate the buying system"?

Accepting credit cards works pretty much like any other form data with some security exceptions. If you are incorporating real-time credit card processing then you would need a payment gateway like fastcharge.net.

Alternatively, the merchant could simply read the credit card numbers from the backend and enter them manually into his credit card machine..

Give us a little more info.

This sort of thing can get kind of tricky, as if you are taking credit card you should adhere to PCI compliance. My companies position is unique in the fact that we have SAP as our back end system, which takes card of all card processing. I would recommend that you look into a payment gateway that will also manage your credit card data via web service. That way you push PCI compliance on them rather than trying to do it yourself.

Processing orders with credit cards is certainly something that you will want to think very carefully about and investigate many options.

[ldoodle]

Thanks for the replies.

I'll know more when i've sat down with them on Tuesday to discuss the whole thing in more detail.

The current website is www.jennychem.com

[itHighway2007]

There are many third party shopping carts available over internet like VPASP, ASPShoppingCart, ASPProduct etc. You can customize any of them to make it work for your friend.

[ldoodle]

Thanks.

Are there any rules to follow when designing databases to include online ordering?

Specifically things that are variable such as quantity and current price, or do the solutions provided take care of all that?

Thanks

[Kuriyama]

Thanks.

Are there any rules to follow when designing databases to include online ordering?

Specifically things that are variable such as quantity and current price, or do the solutions provided take care of all that?

Thanks

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/_detail/doc/magento---sample_database_diagram.png?id=development%3Amagento_database_diagram&cache=cache

Here is an example of an industrial strength database diagram. You probably wouldn't need anything this complex, but this will give you an idea of where you are going.

[ldoodle]

Interesting update. Apparantly they have got an account with ProtX (now SagePay) but it's not been incorporated into the current site.

Anyone familiar with this and it's ease/difficulty of use.