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Originally Posted by ultipet I'm no expert but, here's what I recently learned... You can have a fully integrated shopping cart with software you install yourself on your website's server. However, your hosting server has to have SSL and you usually need to buy a security certificate which can range from $200-$300 per year. |
A single root domain certificate can be had for $40-50 a year.
The cheapest available at this moment is $35 a year
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Originally Posted by ultipet That is why many shopping carts actually have the "checkout" page on their servers. Because in that case, you are using their shared SSL and you don't have to buy one yourself. |
Correct if your using osCommerce you need to add the appropiate contributions to do this. Currently PayPal and 2Checkout is supported. Your customers are taken to the
PayPal or 2Checkout site to insert their credit card and other vital information and after it is processed the processor returns control to your shopping cart for a 'thank you for shopping' screen.