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Fat_Sunny

01-21-2007, 06:36 PM

Fat Wants To Set Up A Little Web-Based Mail Order Business.  He Is Not A Computer Wonk And Needs Advice On Whether There Is An Easy-To-Use and Install Software That He Can Do Himself, Or Should He Just Hire Someone To Do It?  Success Of The Product Line Is "Iffy", So Fat Wants To Keep The Start-Up Costs To A Minimum.Is There An Off-The-Shelf Software Anyone Can RecommendThat...1. A Person Can Install Himself And Design His Own Site2. That Will Allow People To Order Products Direct From The Site3. Will Allow People To Pay By Credit Card From The SiteFat Can Write All The Product Descriptions Of The Products He Will Sell, And He Can Take All The Photos, And Set All The Prices, And Ship All The Orders, But He Doesn't Know Where To Start To Develop The Actual Site.Also, Does He Have To Buy A Server?So....Any Easy Software For A Non-Geek?What Kind Of Server?What Else Would Be Needed?Thanks In Advance To Anyone Who Can Steer Fat In The Right Direction!

JustJon

01-22-2007, 10:07 AM

Fat_Sunny wrote: Fat Wants To Set Up A Little Web-Based Mail Order Business. He Is Not A Computer Wonk And Needs Advice On Whether There Is An Easy-To-Use and Install Software That He Can Do Himself, Or Should He Just Hire Someone To Do It? Success Of The Product Line Is "Iffy", So Fat Wants To Keep The Start-Up Costs To A Minimum.Is There An Off-The-Shelf Software Anyone Can RecommendThat...1. A Person Can Install Himself And Design His Own Site2. That Will Allow People To Order Products Direct From The Site3. Will Allow People To Pay By Credit Card From The SiteFat Can Write All The Product Descriptions Of The Products He Will Sell, And He Can Take All The Photos, And Set All The Prices, And Ship All The Orders, But He Doesn't Know Where To Start To Develop The Actual Site.Also, Does He Have To Buy A Server?So....Any Easy Software For A Non-Geek?What Kind Of Server?What Else Would Be Needed?Thanks In Advance To Anyone Who Can Steer Fat In The Right Direction! 1) You can sign up for a Yahoo Store or you can get your own webspace and install a store package like osCommerce2) All of those can handle it just fine.3) You just need to get a credit card processor.  I usually just use paypal to do it. You don't need to buy a server, especially with the low level of traffic you expect in the beginning.  You can get a shared hosting account with a provider.  Some of which have their own software already set so you can set up the store by just clicking a few things, and may have their own credit card processor too.

mendyweiss

01-22-2007, 10:08 AM

And What will the fat man be selling ?

yomudder21

01-22-2007, 10:11 AM

mendyweiss wrote: And What will the fat man be selling ? I hope FatSunny is selling Sunny D.  It has solar energy you know.  (ew, that joke was awful)

SatCam

01-22-2007, 11:21 AM

Have someone design the site for you unless you can design a site yourself. Otherwise I don't think you'll do that well using a site you designed yourself in frontpage (but of course it is possible).

For anything to do with credit card, any ordering stuff, do through either a site like yahoo or a site like paypal. With yahoo, they do all the legwork and it's probably your best option. Using paypal takes care of the payment part, but you still have to sell your products through your site and that requires some programming, which you will need a trusted person to do for you. Do not handle any CC info, and even mailing info, through your site unless you really know what you're doing.

Fat_Sunny

01-22-2007, 12:55 PM

Thank You Very Much For The Answers.  Very Helpful!Fat Already Has The Credit Card Processing In Place For A Non-Web Business, So That Obstacle Is Gone.  The Other Leads Are Greatly Appreciated!Mendy, Fat Can't Be Too Specific Quite Yet On The Nature Of The Products, But Let's Just Say They Fall Into The Category Of "Chachkas".

JustJon

01-23-2007, 09:45 AM

Fat_Sunny wrote: Thank You Very Much For The Answers. Very Helpful!Fat Already Has The Credit Card Processing In Place For A Non-Web Business, So That Obstacle Is Gone. The Other Leads Are Greatly Appreciated!Mendy, Fat Can't Be Too Specific Quite Yet On The Nature Of The Products, But Let's Just Say They Fall Into The Category Of "Chachkas". Does yor off-line credit card processor have an online component?  If not, you're doing alot more work than you need to.

Death Metal Moe

01-23-2007, 09:49 AM

Sell Taylor Ham to the parts of our country that don't get it.One taste and you'll have a customer for life.  It's a vast, untapped market.

Reynolds

01-23-2007, 10:08 AM

Namo Web editor is an easy to use web design software, that's WYSIWYG... I use it to design my pages quick, then pop in code afterwards... Also a built in FTP uploader. www.namo.com for a trial