accepting credit cards online

[scottsw]

Ok, I know this subject has been posted many times here. But, wanted to get a 'current' opinion of what company everybody thinks is the best to accept credit cards on my site. My problem with 2checkout.com is that my product is only .99 cents. and 2checkout takes .45 cents a purchase plus 5.5 %. Although, I DO NOT want to use paypal. Personally, I think it degrades the look of your business because you have to be taken away from the site and register. I also found http://www.grafxsoftware.com/product...rt_edition/18/
I think this is just a shopping cart store and they don't actualy take credit cards. Don't know for sure.
But, does anybody know the best way to go. Should I check with my bank about getting a merchant account for my corporation. I don't know how merchant accounts work. I looked at OScommerce the one that powweb advertises but didn't understand it. Is that really free? How can that be? Any suggestions please

[Croc Hunter]

osCommerce is free, there is even an installer in OPS > Hosting Packages > Website > HTTP. You still need to hook it up to a merchant account like PayPal to handle the payment processing. PayPal is popular but there are alternatives. I would stick with a reputeable company and 2CheckOut is one of them. Personaly I think that all merchant account processors take way to much off YOUR profits.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...+account&meta=

osCommerce is just the shopping cart software end - you'll still need a payment gateway. The following page has a list of payment gateways that are compatible with osCommerce, as well as a link to modules that can be installed for even more. Just scroll to the very bottom of the page.

http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions

-Karl F.
PowWeb Technical Support

[joshuamc]

Bottom line is that if you don't want to use PayPal, you are going to have to pay a fee. PayPal isnt so bad. There are ways to integrate it into the site and a lot of sites make you register before your purchase anyways so I wouldn't say its that big of a deal. It seems that that the majority of online purchasers use PayPal anyhow.

[rancher]

Bank merchant accounts can be expensive. After years of paying a minimum monthly fee plus the percentage I switched to PayPal. I looked high and low for something else because I'd heard negative about PayPal, then I decided to try it. Customers can pay by check or credit card with PayPal, it doesn't cost them a thing and only costs me the percentage. To cover all bases I also accept check/money order payment directly to me. I've not had any complaints and I have NO complaints with PayPal.

Rancher

[scottsw]

Thanks for the help yall. I took your advice and setup my store with osCommerce using paypal. So far I love it. Now paypal doesnt require customers to register which is nice. The only problem I have with all of this is that it seems like you have to go through about 10 different pages before the purchase is complete. I purchased one of my products and it felt like it took forever to finaly get to the confirmation page. But, its ok though.
Now I just have to figure out how to change the default bluish grey color on my store to match my maroon logo. I looked through the forums here and at oscommerce and found that it has something to do with the style sheet but I still don't know what part I would be changing. If I new what color that blueish grey bar was I could just change everything that had those numbers for example if the color was ff0f0f i could change it to a maroon. Does anybody know how to do this? I also want to take the copyright info off of the bottom if possible. I guess I should have started this post in the oscommerce section. Sorry

[Croc Hunter]

A link would help. I'll move you to osCommerce forum.

If its an image you want to change right click on it > click properties. Note the URL then FTP in and locate it on your space here. Download a copy and make another copy. Alter it to your logo - change colors - edit it however you like. Just be sure to keep original dimensions and filename then upload (replace) the original image.

[stevel]

Colors are defined in the CSS stylesheet.

Text can be found in includes/languages/english.php and files under the english subfolder.

[scottsw]

Originally Posted by Croc Hunter

A link would help. I'll move you to osCommerce forum.

If its an image you want to change right click on it > click properties. Note the URL then FTP in and locate it on your space here. Download a copy and make another copy. Alter it to your logo - change colors - edit it however you like. Just be sure to keep original dimensions and filename then upload (replace) the original image.

Here is a link. The part I'm talking about is not actually an image. It is the blueish grey bar that is all over the page. The white text is inside of the bar. Do you know exactly what part I would be changing here to get it to match my logo?

Site removed as per OP's request.

[stevel]

This is all done in stylesheet.css. The bluish-gray bar in most places is an "InfoBoxHeading", with the style as follows:

TD.infoBoxHeading {
  font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-size: 10px;
  font-weight: bold;
  background: #bbc3d3;
  color: #ffffff;
}

You change the background and (text) color as you like. The bar with Top>Catalog is the HeaderNavigation style, here:

TR.headerNavigation {
  background: #bbc3d3;
}

TD.headerNavigation {
  font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-size: 10px;
  background: #bbc3d3;
  color: #ffffff;
  font-weight : bold;
}

[scottsw]

Verry Cool!
Of course as you can see there is still a few images that I will have to change {images have been fixed} as well but it worked perfect! Thanks Steve and everybody!


Site removed as per OP's request.

[stevel]

Well done.