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Do I need shopping cart software?
 

I have designed a website (it's not up yet) that is going to sell a few products. by a few I mean 2-3. I am trying to figure out how to actually sell them. I have everything designed even with a buy now button that is a hyperlink. What do you guys recommend to actually put an order through, from credit card payment to whatever. I'm guessing something like a merchant account but I want to be able to do invoicing and that kind of stuff. I've looked at a bunch of shopping cart software, but it seems that almost all of it is customizable website templates which I do not want. I want to keep my website as is and if I can. Maybe just do some PHP adding it in. The items I am selling aren't VERO or anything, so im open for any options. I obviously want to avoid paypal for receiving the money and would opt for something like direct deposit to a business bank account.

Just seeing if anyone had any experience with anything like this.

Try e-junkie.com

It's a shopping cart, but it doesn't take over your website, you just paste the HTML code where you want it on your site and you're good to go. But with e-junkie you can have multiple payment options, you'll have a back-end to handle your orders, product information, etc. And it can follow up with customers automatically for you and more. It's cheap too at only $5 a month. I have been using them for years now without any issues.

Cheers

thank you!!! :). I spent a good 3 hours yesterday and came up with really expensive software that didn't give you much freedom.

That looks like a great little option. I have always used shopping cart software over the years. But the look of site is always a little forced depending on cart. That would sure let you customize a site to look any way you wanted

oh, one more question: How do you receive your money? if they checkout through paypal does it go into a paypal account you have? same for authorize.net, etc?

You enter your PayPal or whatever payment gateway into settings and payments go there. For example if you use PayPal it opens a window at PayPal site to pay your account. Same as when you checkout from ebay.

Yep and after a customer pays for your item, they are redirected back to e-junkie or wherever you want them to go to complete the order.

You're emailed order details and payment information. You can review order information on e-junkie.com, etc. It's a nifty shopping cart. :)

alright, now i'm off to merchant accounts section. I am going to stay well away from paypal, as they like to rape your income. Want it to look as much like the website takes your orders than a third party as I can

if you haven't signed up yet I stumbled across a 90 day free promo code:

rapidcart

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haha yeah, I found that too. I always google for coupons if there's anywhere to input them. thanks tho!