>I know it is OT, but I dont know where else to post it. A friend of
> mine is looking at starting up a business online, after working in the
> retail trade for many years, now wants to put his business on the
> internet. He doesn't want ebay, but wants to take credit cards.
>
> Paypal charge too much, and have other issues (e.g. the max spending
> limit someone can have before they have to use another card or they
> have to send in multiple payments, that is the biggest problem in the
> past so far, and their %% they take)
>
> Can anyone reccomend a decent shopping cart program? He is happy to
> build it himself as he looks after his own website, but is stuck when
> it comes to taking the cards. He has already contacted his bank and
> they have reccomended Streamline, but does anyone else have a similar
> experience? He has around 1000 products he wants to build in, plus the
> delivery pricings, etc.
>
> TIA ...

>
>He could do a lot worse than Zencart, all th eoptions in the admin panel
>give you a nosebleed at first but that is because it is quite powerful. It
>doesn't take long to get to grips with it and to be able to get it to do
>what you want to do. It would take an awful lot of work to build a website
>to do what this does.
>The Zencart forum is OK too, very helpful with regs almost always on hand.
>
>A Streamline machine will cost about £15pm with debit card transactions
>charged at about 35p, credit card about 2.5%%.
>
>I am not sure of the legal position though of taking card numbers through
>the webside and then processing them as 'cardholder not present', ISTR
>things changed recently.
>

> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:40:24 +0100, "R D S" yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>

>>
>> He could do a lot worse than Zencart, all th eoptions in the admin
>> panel give you a nosebleed at first but that is because it is quite
>> powerful. It doesn't take long to get to grips with it and to be
>> able to get it to do what you want to do. It would take an awful lot
>> of work to build a website to do what this does.
>> The Zencart forum is OK too, very helpful with regs almost always on
>> hand.

>
> I know it is OT, but I dont know where else to post it. A friend of
> mine is looking at starting up a business online, after working in the
> retail trade for many years, now wants to put his business on the
> internet. He doesn't want ebay, but wants to take credit cards.
>
> Paypal charge too much, and have other issues (e.g. the max spending
> limit someone can have before they have to use another card or they
> have to send in multiple payments, that is the biggest problem in the
> past so far, and their %% they take)
>
> Can anyone reccomend a decent shopping cart program? He is happy to
> build it himself as he looks after his own website, but is stuck when
> it comes to taking the cards. He has already contacted his bank and
> they have reccomended Streamline, but does anyone else have a similar
> experience? He has around 1000 products he wants to build in, plus the
> delivery pricings, etc.
>
> TIA ...

>I know it is OT, but I dont know where else to post it. A friend of
> mine is looking at starting up a business online, after working in the
> retail trade for many years, now wants to put his business on the
> internet. He doesn't want ebay, but wants to take credit cards.
>
> Paypal charge too much, and have other issues (e.g. the max spending
> limit someone can have before they have to use another card or they
> have to send in multiple payments, that is the biggest problem in the
> past so far, and their %% they take)
>
> Can anyone reccomend a decent shopping cart program? He is happy to
> build it himself as he looks after his own website, but is stuck when
> it comes to taking the cards. He has already contacted his bank and
> they have reccomended Streamline, but does anyone else have a similar
> experience? He has around 1000 products he wants to build in, plus the
> delivery pricings, etc.
>
> TIA ...

> Wagg wrote:

>>
>> I know it is OT, but I dont know where else to post it. A friend of
>> mine is looking at starting up a business online, after working in the
>> retail trade for many years, now wants to put his business on the
>> internet. He doesn't want ebay, but wants to take credit cards.
>>
>> Paypal charge too much, and have other issues (e.g. the max spending
>> limit someone can have before they have to use another card or they
>> have to send in multiple payments, that is the biggest problem in the
>> past so far, and their %% they take)
>>
>> Can anyone reccomend a decent shopping cart program? He is happy to
>> build it himself as he looks after his own website, but is stuck when
>> it comes to taking the cards. He has already contacted his bank and
>> they have reccomended Streamline, but does anyone else have a similar
>> experience? He has around 1000 products he wants to build in, plus the
>> delivery pricings, etc.
>> ...

> "Odiferous" hotmail.com> wrote in messagenews:48CF5578.93C12603@hotmail.com...

>> Wagg wrote:

>

>>> I know it is OT, but I dont know where else to post it. A friend of
>>> mine is looking at starting up a business online, after working in the
>>> retail trade for many years, now wants to put his business on the
>>> internet. He doesn't want ebay, but wants to take credit cards.

>

>>> Paypal charge too much, and have other issues (e.g. the max spending
>>> limit someone can have before they have to use another card or they
>>> have to send in multiple payments, that is the biggest problem in the
>>> past so far, and their %% they take)

>

>>> Can anyone reccomend a decent shopping cart program? He is happy to
>>> build it himself as he looks after his own website, but is stuck when
>>> it comes to taking the cards. He has already contacted his bank and
>>> they have reccomended Streamline, but does anyone else have a similar
>>> experience? He has around 1000 products he wants to build in, plus the
>>> delivery pricings, etc. ...