ecommerce payment solutions

[jason_m]

hello and thank you in advance.

i have my website 90% of the way there in terms of design and implementation, but completely lack a provider for ecommerce.

i have been thinking to go with mal's ecommerce (waiver: not related to this in any way) due to the unobtrusive implementation that i have observed on other sites.

as someone new to web coding but not new to coding i hesitate to implement secure check-out on my own and would like to hang it over to a third party until i become more confident.

any input and recommendations are heavily appreciated.

[bekyed]

Hi Jason.

Why not use oscommerce, this is completely free and has some great modules on there, completely customisable too, or do you mean a gateway provider?

Bek.

[jason_m]

all,
after some thought i have decided to come back and post again.

i am not sure of the caliber on this board, but for every question i have asked, i am yet to stump the vast resources made available by those who post here.

so here it goes:

1 - is it really that difficult to code a "secure" shopping cart? i'm sure it takes some careful coding, but is it more of a liability to do it yourself and that is why one should just use a business that offers a shopping cart?

2 - with regard to liabilities. could anyone recommend a resource to read up on starting an e-commerce site (legal aspects, necessary registrations, forms etc). i know this one is a big question with probably a lot of "short" and "long" answers, but I am just looking to do things right and be protected.


any help would really be great. thank you!