DFoley
04-04-2005, 06:20 PM
I am quite worried as i find myself with a little under a week to build a shop for someone - never having done this before!!
The reason I have ended up leaving it so late is because the host that we had this clients site with offered a shopping cart with the account, but it wasn't until a Fri that we discovered that this was not suitable for us as our client has his own merchant account, and they only offered payment through Paypal. This would obviously have meant futher high fees on top of his mechant account, which should not have been nessesary.
So i need to know if anyone can recommend a good and reliable UK host with an easy WYSIWYG shopping cart integrated into their hosting account that would allow me to put a shop together and sort all this out within a 2 or 3 days (argh!!)
A further problem i have is that the bank that our client uses for his merchant account does not provide its own secure gateway so i understand that we need to find another company that will provide this service for a small fee. (Someone mentioned Protx - are they any good and what would this all involve)
Any help or advise that anyone can offer will be most appreciated. I just need an idiot-proof very quick easy and neat store. I have no idea about PHP or My SQL and am using FP 2003! (groan ... I know!) I am obviously getting very worried about this given the timescale!!
Thanks in advance!
The reason I have ended up leaving it so late is because the host that we had this clients site with offered a shopping cart with the account, but it wasn't until a Fri that we discovered that this was not suitable for us as our client has his own merchant account, and they only offered payment through Paypal. This would obviously have meant futher high fees on top of his mechant account, which should not have been nessesary.
So i need to know if anyone can recommend a good and reliable UK host with an easy WYSIWYG shopping cart integrated into their hosting account that would allow me to put a shop together and sort all this out within a 2 or 3 days (argh!!)
A further problem i have is that the bank that our client uses for his merchant account does not provide its own secure gateway so i understand that we need to find another company that will provide this service for a small fee. (Someone mentioned Protx - are they any good and what would this all involve)
Any help or advise that anyone can offer will be most appreciated. I just need an idiot-proof very quick easy and neat store. I have no idea about PHP or My SQL and am using FP 2003! (groan ... I know!) I am obviously getting very worried about this given the timescale!!
Thanks in advance!