E-commerce systems.
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E-commerce systems.
I'm new to the field of e-commerce system and i want to start delving into it; how difficult is this in terms of writing payment gateways, connecting the user to something like PayPal (i've found some PHP SDK's for Paypal) and incorporating previously mentioned SDK's. Ideas, thoughts, previous experience on this topic will be welcome. thanks in advance.
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Re: E-commerce systems.
Actually making them yourself? Don't. It's a pain. Use existing gateways like Authorize.net or PayPal.social_experiment wrote:writing payment gateways
Pretty easy. IPN is great but vanilla express checkout and billing agreements are okay too.social_experiment wrote:connecting the user to something like PayPal (i've found some PHP SDK's for Paypal)
Depends on the quality. In general the vendor's documentation will suck if you want to write your own (I like doing that) but otherwise you can grab some SDK code, copy it into your project, and start calling functions.social_experiment wrote:and incorporating previously mentioned SDK's
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Re: E-commerce systems.
Thank you for the suggestions, i will definitely take a look at the options you mentioned
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