I currently have someone designing my site for me. However, neither he nor I is experienced in programming, PHP/MySql, CGI . I need a little help with how things get tied together.

I am providing web hosting services as well as domain registration and I want the customer to be able to sign up with a hosting package and a domain name all within the same order process.

This is what I am looking to accomplish:
I am currently looking at Revecom for a merchant account and Dotster or Enom for domain registration.

1.) Integrate domain and hosting services in one signup.
2.) Have the domain check, whois and registration process have the look and feel of my site.
3.) Have a sign in for the customer to manage their domain that was registered on my site.

Doster has a API sign up for integration into my site at this url https://secure.registerapi.com/manage/dotapi/dotapi-safe.php

Is this all possible with the resellers above? Or do I need custom built scripts.

I am open for suggestions and willing to pay the right person to have this done. Looking for an inexpensive way to get this done, I am just starting out so I don’t want to sink a ton of money into programming just yet..


Thanks
-Darren
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Hi,

Doesnt seem too hard dargar

1> Just an order script with some little tinkering should get you that
2 and 3> Both just look like integration of the registrar's API with your own design ... shouldnt be too bad :)

Just a bit of custom scripting and things should be dandy ;)

If you don't want to spend a lot of money, you can start up with these and pass the customers to their registration page (for example pass them to enom) and they will do all the credit card processing for you.

Most business people don't like to pass customers on to other websites, so they want to keep "their" look and feel with the web pages. This will need a "gateway" solution where your web page will call the other webserver (for example enom) and will do the registration "behind the scenes" so that the customer will never leave your own pages.

This gateway solution is rather costly ($350 minimum) and I have done these for netbilling.com authorize.net and enom.com already. It involves a lot of work because sometimes the merchand's documentation is not very good and you have to try out some features. I had that kind of trouble with netbilling and found authorize.net much better in documentation and technical background.

I would suggest that you start with the low-cost solution and pass your customers to the registration pages. If you got more customers, you can check here again to find somebody who will provide you a seamless gateway solution.

Marian