online shops complicated?

[hargi]

Hi all,
Looking for advice, i have been approached by a friend to make him a online shop, dont worry its a golf shop. I dont have any problems making websites but have never touched anything with transactions in. He would prefer it to use paypal. I dont think id be comfortable building something that handles credit cards on his site.
How difficult would something like this be? or what alternatives is there other than ebay shops.

Is there an easy way for him to update the content after it has been made?

TIA

 

[Dave M]

Is there an easy way for him to update the content after it has been made?

Well you'd make it in php / asp and feed the product details (content) from a database. Then you just need to update the database (back end admin pages to type in descriptions / upload pictures) or scripts to sync with an office based system.

If you don't do this kind of stuff I'd suggest you send him to www.actinic.co.uk.

For such a small venture you'd almost certainly want a pay page solution - you send the customer to a pay form on the paypal (or protx etc) site along with some details (e.g. order ref, amount) and they do all the CC stuff there - then you get a call back from them to tell your site it went though.

 

[unknowndomain]

DO NOT USE ACTINIC...

My friend at uni asked me this question I recommended him actinic and its the worst thing ever, he went on a training course, and spent ages getting the site up and running, and its really not a very modern or flexible system, I suggest you use osCommerce.