Website Booking Help (ecommerce?)
 

Just need to find out what the options are here but here goes:

A company has a website built/designed and is fully functional, the whole thing is flash based BUT it was designed through an online editor (which of course is a flash based editor lol) it even has links to allow ecommerce but only for things like paypal (or rather a link to be to securely check out via paypal anyways)

The thing is, i think they need to have secure checkout that allows credit cards to be used etc, there is no way to integrate it (yet) however i had the idea of having a seperate site to handle the secure check out that the flash site links to?

What would be involved in this? how much would it cost etc to do this!?

cheers!

its doable - i pm'd over my friends email addy to you - he's not a forum member but could do this, or point you in right direction :)

You have a couple of options....ePDQ integrates into your website to the point where you submit your basket and then you go to the merchants website, make a payment and then the merchant redirects back to your website. You get a full set of variables back from the merchant so you can store transaction details (apart from card details) on your own database. ePDQ costs about £700 a year I think (I haven't used it for a few years). You'll need about a weeks worth of a developers time to integrate this into an existing website as well as some time to build the new shop pages for the site. Fees are generally standard bank charges for taking cards.

The enterprise option is full merchant services. Don't be tempted by this unless you have a very healthy budget. Because you will be storing the credit card details on your own server you're entering a world of compliance issues that will require separate fire-walled database servers. If you're in the UK you'll also run head first into the data protection act. I think the cost of this per year is usually cheaper than ePDQ but don't be fooled. It will cost you a fortune to build a robust system and merchant accounts are classed as card-not-present transactions which means that if the transaction turns out to be fraudulent then the money will be taken back from you (called a charge-back).

You can probably find an ePDQ option that white labels better than barclaycard, but it's the one I'd use. There are a ton of agencies that can do this work for you. It's sounds a bit small for us to take on, but if you're in the UK I can recommend a couple of great agencies that will do the work to a good standard to you.

If you commission someone, make sure you ask them for normalised database design diagrams or schema as part of deliverables in the scoping stage. If they can't provide these, walk away.

Cheers for the responses guys, ive email that guy as suggested.

I should have also mentioned im a noob at things like this, the price of £700 has shocked me a fair amount lol

I have to be honest, I got that price from the last quote I did a few years ago and the company was selling mobile phones online. The setup cost varies though....

Have a look here to get a quote: http://www.barclaycard.co.uk/busines...ents/epdq-cpi/

Don't forget that a web developer capable of integrating this will charge at least £300 per day and you are going to need at least 5 days of their time.