Jellybean Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Hi Thinking about setting up an E-Com solution for my website, was going to stick with .Net and came across NOP Commerence. Dont want to have to pay for a Wordpress,Drupal etc hosting account for the E-Com Tool; open to any advice opinions The Catalog is the easy part, what I am more interested in is Payment Gateways or payment processors Looking across the solutions the top payment solutions are payal and Google Checkout from what I see, just intereseted if anybody has any advice on best provider to go through, it will be low quantity orders , a few a week. Sole trader, low production business model Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 There's no reason you can't do both to be honest. OSCommerce is relatively decent. ZenCart has it's followers too. Depends on a few things, such as integration, hosting, products, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Google checkout has the lowest fees, I know that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellybean Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 Thanks, I am using a Windows hosting account with SQL Server , just came across NOP commerce on Microsoft.com as an ASP.net solution I could just do a link from my site to Zen cart but would prefer to have stick to my current setup rather than having to invest in another hosting soluition with the associated framework I would need for Dupal, Wordpress , Joomla Heres the site http://www.eliteautoclean.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 i've personally used commidea paypage and vanguard (but they are both very costly licenses) so prob easier to stick with google check out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Most of those products use MySQL as their native database. I'm not sure if they use SQL Server, sorry. Have you looked at the Yahoo shopping solution? http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellybean Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 Google checkout has the lowest fees, I know that much. 10 cent cheaper Google Checkout is 3.4% + 20 cent PayPal is 3.4% + 35 cent But you have a higher montly allowance with Google and dont have to pay 3.75 euro on 100 euro + transactions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellybean Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 Most of those products use MySQL as their native database. I'm not sure if they use SQL Server, sorry. Have you looked at the Yahoo shopping solution? http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce Expensive if you dont sell anything, you still need to pay them the monthly fee, think I will use Paypal & Google Checkout; pay as you go ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Paypal and Google fees do change when you start doing qty, so consider that. My company only pays 1.4% now. They have to be able to compete with the sagepays/protox/worldpays of this world. If its starting small, paypal is probably your best bet, its generally easy to integrate but nothing stopping you offering both. Never heard of NOP commerce. You should stick with something that is popular and has its followers. Don't be afraid to initially cough up, if it takes off the least thing you want to be left with is a e-commerce solution that holds you back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellybean Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 Nop Commerence http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/nopcommerce.aspx Looks nice Show case: http://www.just4laptops.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Looks good but no different to any of the others. Its written in .ASP which is getting on a bit compared to .php its probably harder to find a .asp programmer now a days if you wanted custom work done and you are unable to do it yourself. I would look into OSCommerce and Zen cart. Magneto is another solution to consider. With all being said, any of them including NOP will probably be perfectly fine for your needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellybean Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 Thanks Daman,Going with Zen Cart it is free on my hosting plan Cant find any clear tutorials how to set it up , anybody know of any? Just getting the feel for it at the moment , browsing the admin Config Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Dig in: http://www.zen-cart.com/ There all pretty much fee. When you say free with your hosting, do you mean they have the installer for it? (1 click installation?) If so, do it manually buy downloading from ZC website and uploading install folder. 1 Click installs are iffy to say the least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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