2Checkout - Can I code a store myself?

[ShepMode]

I'd like to be able to code a store myself including all item pages and the shopping cart. I then want to be able to send the order details to 2Checkout's site so that my customers can enter their credit card details. This would have to be possible with multiple orders at the same time.

When the customer has entered his/her details, I would like to execute a script on my server to update their details on my database - whether the payment was accepted / declined etc.

I do _not_ want to have to use their shopping cart or manually enter values into their databases.

If anyone could tell me if this is possible and perhaps link me to their example, I would be very grateful.

[mattglet]

Unless you have knowledge of a server-side development language (i.e. ASP, PHP, JSP, etc), you will have difficulty achieving the results you are looking for. You will have to make a dynamic online storefront (with full admin capabilities), and shopping cart from scratch. This itself will cost a little bit, if you are also concerned about the time=money factor.

-Matt

[ShepMode]

Thanks. I'm a PHP programmer and I have my time covered by the project estimate of my current project.

This should be great fun!

[bzprod]

You might want to look into 1shoppingcart or quickpaypro. Both of these sites work well with 2checkout. Both of these sites also include autoresponders, mailing list mamagement, customer management, ad tracking, affiliate software, etc. I have used both and they are both great. Customer service is way better at 1shoppingcart.

[steveallbrands]

I am also a PHP programmer and have the save question. I am currently looking into Worldpay - it seems to do what we want. All you have to do is post some data to its script. It will then process the credit card stuff and post back to a callback script. From this script, you can do all your DB updates. Let me know if you have any questions.

[mquarles]

I have used both of the ones bzprod mentioned, and I had substantial issues with QuickPayPro downtime and errors. Their customer service was unreachable.

MQ

[Fighting Falcon]

Building a basic shopping cart system is not a particluarly difficult task. But if your site later needs to change the way it operates-like for instance changing payment company or offer other methods of payment then you'll have to make time again. Its quite common these days for sites to use more than one type of online processing...for instance worldpay + PayPal etc.

Also what about order processing? Quite a big area. Stock control facility perhaps? Shipping cost calculations?.The list is endless.

Bottom line is if you have lots of time on your hands and are not expecting your circumstances to change over the next few years then by all means go for it. Otherwise go for an off the shelf method. There's plenty of them around...some come with the php code that you can tweak to your liking.
:)
Good Luck

[johannamck]

I set up a 2Checkout checkout without using any of their offered code.

I pass information into the 2Checkout system and when the payment was approved and processed, 2Checkout calls a script of mine that picks up and does the necessary changes in the database.

It's written in ASP but I could probably answer specific questions about how to do it.

The most difficult thing was doing the decrypt of the MD5 hash (verification that the POST to the "payment received" script is authentic).