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I've been researching this for awhile now, but I'm having a very hard time doing an apples to apples comparison of the different options for managing my cart and payment processing.
For starters, I am well-versed at web-design and have built many site using DreamWeaver. I have my site all setup, but need to integrate the cart and payment processing. Right now I'm leaving towards just using PayPal standard, with a simple cart and let them handle the payment processing.
My question... besides the fact that PayPal will take my buyers temporarily away from my site to checkout, what advantages am I missing out on by not using other shopping cart solutions?
I can't seem to figure out why I would pay big $$$ for a cart solution (and a merchant gateway, etc...) when I already have a very nice site created, and all I need are checkout buttons and inventory management (to make sure I don't sell a sold-out item to customer). And the ability to process the payments in a secure manner, which PayPal will handle for now.
Thanks for recommendation, but that doesn't really answer my question. However, I have researched Google checkout too, and like it, but don't want customers to have to sign up for an account to checkout.
This may not be the answer you are looking for either, but what about an already made cart, like zencart.
You might modify it to fit your needs.
It has an inventory management, and a lot of other very convenient features.
As for payment system I use Paypal.
If you want to take a look at the site on my signature, I created it with little expertise on CSS, but I like it, so far.
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Last edited by marcelolopez; January 6th, 2009 at 06:52 PM.
To Answer your question you are not really missing out on any other processes. I have Google Checkout and a Merchant Account so when I am away at a Boat Show Selling Shirts from a booth I can still run Credit Card Transactions. Paypal doesn't have this option.
I have used Paypal and Google and my Merchant Account and they all work fine. I like Google the best because they have good security measures never had a stolen card used and their fees are the lowest. With Paypal I have had 6 cards used that were stolen so low security measures.
Great, thank you for the responses. I guess for now I will stick with PayPal standard, and will look in to Google Checkout as well.
bigtyme805 - when stolen cards were used, did you get hit with fees? How much were they, and what kind of situation resulted? (i.e., did you ship the items out?)
That's what scares me about PayPal. But for starting, it appears to be the best all around cart/payment solution on the cheap.
I'm trying to weigh the pros/cons of using Google vs. PayPal. My only concern with Google is losing sales during checkout due to their requirement for users to sign-up for a Google account - where as PayPal let's users just enter their credit card info and be done with it. But if that was not a real factor, then I would go with Google.
Carts and Payment Processing - Help 
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