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[preprank]

Hello,

I know this must be a dreary topic for many, but I greatly appreciate any help.

Here's my situation: I am producing a website that will only sell access to restricted areas within the site-- no shipping involved. I would like to offer credit card payment and PayPal options. Thus, I am seeking a sytem that will allow me to accept payment and then provide the customer with an e-mail and password for instant access. Also, I would like to end that access after a specified period.

I don't need any customization -- just a simple order page will be fine. However, I'd like to make this as simple as possible for customers and myself. I'm competent with HTML programming and can do simple password scripts, but know almost nothing about databases.

Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance.

[henry0]

preprank welcome to WebmasterWorld

Since you cannot code you owm E-comm and it looks like you are not looking for a large system
I will simply find a host that offers a free shopping cart as part of the hosting deal, although some offer a better system upon a small feee or percentage on sales

if you may involve yourself a bit deeper in setting your shopping cart
you may look at sites such as hotscript.com that offers many options again some for a fee and some free
good luck
regards
Henry

[Larryhat]

Hello Preprank:

Let me toss in some ideas. A shopping cart makes perfect sense in a site with a large inventory where the buyer might want one of those, two of those others etc.
HOWEVER, and just for me personally, its just a mess, if a site is offering only a few items and I only want one of them.

All that proceed to checkout etc. makes me back out when I was in fact ready to buy! I can't be alone in this.

If I ever market a good product again, I will NEVER put the interested buyer into that shopping cart mess. I will do anything and everything to make it as easy as possible to complete the purchase; even if that requires a separate html page just for that purchase, one for each product if there is more than one.

For me, the big issue is safe, secure transfer of funds with reasonable fees, in such a way that buyer and seller both feel confident.

Best -Larry

[WebStart]

You could try using coolcart.com combined with some payment gateway, like verisign. The cart generates an email to you and the customer when the purchase is ordered; verisign generates an email to you and the customer when payment is received. Based on the emails you receive from those systems, you could send an email granting access. Admittedly that is a lot of emails for the customer to receive. But it sounds like you have something that would appeal to internet savvy customers who hopefully would not be confused.

[datahost]

Hi -

I'd try searching google for "subscription web site". You'll find several package deals that do what you want for a reasonable price.

Staci

[babushka99]

Search for "click cart pro". I think that will do the job. I think it has subscription handling.