3rd Party Storefront Servers

to sell recurring subs and merchandise....

[sisyphus]

I tried to search on this, but I'm way below the rest of you guys in terms of tech and jargon. So I hope you won't mind a newbie query (if you take time to reply, it'll at least help other newbies!).

I've presently got a freemerchant storefront which SUCKS really really badly.

I'm a piddly-assed merchant selling a handful of products. I use authorizenet to do the charges from freemerchant. I also have a paypal acct.

1. where can I go to do my piddly-assed cybercommerce that actually works, has a nice easy back room interface and easy set up (I'm not a tech joke, don't talk to me of MIVA merchant, etc, and I'm not going to attempt to store cr. card numbers on my server). Need to pay well under $50/month.

2. to complicate things, we also sell subscriptions to newsletters. I'd love them to be recurring and have subs and mailing list nicely automated. I know paypal's one solution, but I hear they suck.

Anybody ever work with these guys? wired-2-shop

thanks for any hand-holding. again, go easy on me, I'm dim!

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 1:35 am (utc) on Aug. 4, 2004]
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[moneymancn]

Simplfy your life and get Clickcartpro
Works great for us
No connection or affiliation BTW
MM

[sisyphus]

sorry, I guess I wasnt' clear. i do not want to serve the storefront from my server. I'm looking for reccos of third parties to go to who serve this sort of thing.

[marc66]

Either 1 try shopfactory,
2. Hire someone to make it for you.
3. For recuring billing or newslettersvia paypal you can create a button through paypal and they can do it for you.
Email me if you have any questions

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[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 12:11 pm (utc) on Aug. 6, 2004]
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[netguy]

sisyphus, as far as your products are concerned, Yahoo's Merchant Solutions may suit your needs. They have gotten away from all the complicated RTML requirements - just add some snippets in your current product pages for price/availability/buy now. Set up a simple database in the Catalog Manager, and it feeds the snippets on your existing pages.

Yahoo handles all the security, and its on their own servers with your domain name. The 'starter' program runs about $39.95/mo with 1.5% transaction fee (including hosting).

I've got more than a half-dozen of my smaller clients using it, and they are quite happy. Being Yahoo, they also make it simple for your buyers. No complex login requirements, just fast checkout through their easy-to-use shopping cart.

I'm not sure about your newsletter subscriptions, but I know they do provide purchase/download capabilities for software sellers.

It's worth a look.

Steve