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We are looking for a low-cost and low-hassle e-commerce solution to do a product test with in the UK market. We've tried looking around, but are spending too much time on this without getting far so I am hoping someone here at UKBF might be able to help to point us in the direction of a proven solution. Many solutions are full shopping carts or just unnecessarily complicated for our purpose.
The solution we need should provide functionality of having a single-page shopping cart, payment processor and a merchant account. More specifically - pressing an ORDER button on our website should bring the customer to a single page where they enter their name, address, delivery and payment details (all on one page) and then press PAY NOW at the bottom. Then they get a thank you page and also get an auto-generated order confirmation via email. It should be very straightforward. There are no delivery options as there is only one type of delivery and this is already included in the product price.
There are two key requirements:
1. Low up-front cost (no or little setup charges). We don't mind higher transaction/payment charges & monthly costs; the test will run for 3 months and then we can consider changing to a lower cost solution if necessary.
2. Short set-up process, ideally we want to be on-line and able to receive on-line payments within 2-3 weeks from today.
Also importantly, we don't have a merchant account for this project so ideally a solution which does not require setting one up.
Doing a bit of coding is not a problem so for example we can code the single-page shopping cart in-house to interface to a suitable on-line payment solution. However, we'd prefer if there is something out-of-the-box, as we can move forward faster.
PayPal Pro would be an obvious choice, but we also want this to look professional, i.e. would prefer a solution which does not require us to have their own logos/buttons as PayPal do.
I suppose we could even get away with collecting c/card details and processing them off-line with a hired Streamline PDQ machine or via PayPal virtual terminal, but we'd rather not go down this route...
Could you recommend any alternatives?
Thank you,
Milan
The solution we need should provide functionality of having a single-page shopping cart, payment processor and a merchant account. More specifically - pressing an ORDER button on our website should bring the customer to a single page where they enter their name, address, delivery and payment details (all on one page) and then press PAY NOW at the bottom. Then they get a thank you page and also get an auto-generated order confirmation via email. It should be very straightforward. There are no delivery options as there is only one type of delivery and this is already included in the product price.
There are two key requirements:
1. Low up-front cost (no or little setup charges). We don't mind higher transaction/payment charges & monthly costs; the test will run for 3 months and then we can consider changing to a lower cost solution if necessary.
2. Short set-up process, ideally we want to be on-line and able to receive on-line payments within 2-3 weeks from today.
Also importantly, we don't have a merchant account for this project so ideally a solution which does not require setting one up.
Doing a bit of coding is not a problem so for example we can code the single-page shopping cart in-house to interface to a suitable on-line payment solution. However, we'd prefer if there is something out-of-the-box, as we can move forward faster.
PayPal Pro would be an obvious choice, but we also want this to look professional, i.e. would prefer a solution which does not require us to have their own logos/buttons as PayPal do.
I suppose we could even get away with collecting c/card details and processing them off-line with a hired Streamline PDQ machine or via PayPal virtual terminal, but we'd rather not go down this route...
Could you recommend any alternatives?
Thank you,
Milan
