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I'd like to do an ecommerce site for myself with a product catalogue. I have no problem building the database around it and creating a browse funcionality. I'd like to avoid using open source shopping carts and create my own and only pass the order total to any card prosessing account.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Do it.
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Can I use those open source shopping carts to just process my order total, or would I have to use the whole thing? What's the easiest way to process order totals?
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Where are your product totals coming from? From your cart that you build? From the cart that you are using that someone else built? From the payment gateway app?
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From the cart that I build.
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Basically you would be coding an order totalizer in the cart. Or am I not understanding what you want?
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Exactly. I can do anything myself up until the point where the card needs to be processed.

I need to pass the card information, order total and other misc data. And I need an answer if it was sucessfully processed or declined. I can take it from there...
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That would more than likely be on the API of the card processor. At least it is for ours. We hand them some information, they use it and return the user to a specified page with a return code.
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