Cool, APTO, I may be calling you too!
I see that your sample site is powered by ocCommerce. My issue is with the checkout process and I see that your site has the same issue. Maybe you can answer a few questions for me.
On your PB site, when I type in my credit card number, is it processed right away or is the number stored and I have to manually entered it in through a 3rd party merchant account later?
My issue with Paypal is that a person has to enter all their contact info in the osCommerce engine and then when they click Paypal and they don't have an account, they have to enter it all again. I don't want a customer doing this twice.
What I want is for the checkout button to go to a page where the customer can choose Paypal or Google Checkout. Then from there all the payment processing is handled through them. The customer only has to enter their info one time.
Biophase- That PBP site has been voted as one of the most sophisticated and customized OScommerce site on the internet. It has over 300 hours of backend/frontend php scripting.
This is what happens with the PBP order process.
1) Client chooses a gun, we will say a "WDP ANGEL" (since everyone has heard of angel)
2) Client goes through checkout, put in all their contact/billing information
3) Client chooses Paypal or Credit Card
4) Assume client chooses credit card
5) They are taken to a 256-bit ssl encrypted page with credit card info fields.
6) They fill that out and press "CHECKOUT", that information is relayed to Authorize.net.
7) If it is accepted it calls back to PBParadise.com, at this point everything is automated.
8) PBP recognizes that the credit card was authorized, it AUTOMATICALLY "sees" that he ordered an Angel paintball gun and that the order was verified.
9) So PBP will forward an email with all the clients details and order information to the WDP Angel supplier/distributor
10) The supplier calls me to confirm the order, it charges my business credit card, and I gets the clients money within 24-48 hours via Authorize.net depositing their cash into my bank of america checking account.
The entire process is automated, I never see the gun. The only thing I need to worry about is answering emails about tech questions, stock questions, and process few returns here and there.
If anyone has any questions about e-commerce/web development/blogging/web hosting, feel free to PM me. I have no problems spending my time helping you guys.
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