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B&W

B&W

B&W

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Hi was thinking about adding the ability to a website for ordering items. Items will then be delivered to the customer. It won't be a great range of items, around a dozen different types. However due to the nature of the items they will only be delivered locally around 30 miles radius. And mostly the item will be exchanged with another, if there is no item to exchange an additional charge will be added.

Our current website designer quoted a high figure I can't remember right now what it was.

How much should it cost to implement and maintain?
 
For so few products and if your current website has a content management system behind it, you could get away with using something like simplecart.js which gives you a front end & cart to PayPal and Google Checkout.

It doesn't sound like you require anything silly like a full eCommerce system with stock control and sales reports etc such as Magento, you just require a simple gateway for people to pay?

The simplecart method will require you to remove sold items etc yourself if you run out of stock, but it depends if you use a partiuclar payment gateway. None are free so you'll need to keep that in mind if you're not using a system already to take payments elsewhere.
 
B&W said:
Our current website designer quoted a high figure I can't remember right now what it was.

How much should it cost to implement and maintain?
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Any custom coding of a shopping cart is quite a lot of effort, so I'm not surprised their quote sounds high. If you can't afford to pay much, you will need to find something off the shelf, or an online service that can be adapted to your needs.
 
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