sarah_anne
09-12-2002, 03:20 PM
Hi.
Some of you may remember (perhaps not) that a few months ago I posted asking if there were any cheapish 3rd party companies that would allow me to use them for my client's shopping cart system etc etc, I went through thinking of Paypal before I realised it's in $$s etc, then thought of worldpay, too expensive, etc. and in the end i solved it extremely cheaply by simply holding cart orders securly online to be physically printed out and typed into the shop keeper's merchant till, printout to be burnt later - a crude method but since it was a v. small company worked fine.
Now, I have a similar problem with no solutions.
I'm doing a site for a local (skint) film maker who would simply like to sell his history documentary video online, of which there are two versions (a general audience one and a school version).
his audince is worldwide (so multi-currency), is based in the UK anad needs to accept credit cards/debit cards online to sell his product.
I don't know what to recommend.
All i need is somewhere that for a small fee would allow him to sell this one product online, maybe through javascript I could calculate a value for quantity ordered, convert the currency etc. (main one would be UK £££s) and this could be passed onto a 3rd party.
This would then take all card details and take the money out of the customer's account and either directly dump this amount into his account or after so much had been accumulated, less a small fee probably. This would then redirect to my own designated page to display an order summary and send an e-mail to both parties stating order summary.
I've considered worldpay etc. but it's simply too expensive for what this guy can afford (i've been to his house and i hate the fact that i'm having to charge this guy myself) - is there something like PayPal for multi-currencies that could help me?
(I've considered e-gold.com but this guy would be doing all of the maintenance himself - can't afford to pay my fees - and to be honest I don't understand it all myself).
Any suggestions to this dilemma???
Some of you may remember (perhaps not) that a few months ago I posted asking if there were any cheapish 3rd party companies that would allow me to use them for my client's shopping cart system etc etc, I went through thinking of Paypal before I realised it's in $$s etc, then thought of worldpay, too expensive, etc. and in the end i solved it extremely cheaply by simply holding cart orders securly online to be physically printed out and typed into the shop keeper's merchant till, printout to be burnt later - a crude method but since it was a v. small company worked fine.
Now, I have a similar problem with no solutions.
I'm doing a site for a local (skint) film maker who would simply like to sell his history documentary video online, of which there are two versions (a general audience one and a school version).
his audince is worldwide (so multi-currency), is based in the UK anad needs to accept credit cards/debit cards online to sell his product.
I don't know what to recommend.
All i need is somewhere that for a small fee would allow him to sell this one product online, maybe through javascript I could calculate a value for quantity ordered, convert the currency etc. (main one would be UK £££s) and this could be passed onto a 3rd party.
This would then take all card details and take the money out of the customer's account and either directly dump this amount into his account or after so much had been accumulated, less a small fee probably. This would then redirect to my own designated page to display an order summary and send an e-mail to both parties stating order summary.
I've considered worldpay etc. but it's simply too expensive for what this guy can afford (i've been to his house and i hate the fact that i'm having to charge this guy myself) - is there something like PayPal for multi-currencies that could help me?
(I've considered e-gold.com but this guy would be doing all of the maintenance himself - can't afford to pay my fees - and to be honest I don't understand it all myself).
Any suggestions to this dilemma???