Inhouse online photo processing?

[ChrisLUM]

Hello Everyone,

Thank you in advance for any helpful ideas or tips. I am looking for a way to process online orders without using 3rd party hosts/processors. I recently bought a new credit card machine so I figured that I rather process my own than give anyone else 15%. Especially when I already spent the money on a CC Machine. Are there any solutions for me? Is there something with an easy workflow?

Chris

[tracknut]

Your question is a tad confusing, so my apologies if I'm answering the wrong thing. I'm not aware of anybody charging 15% on credit card transactions - the typically charge is around 3%. If you've got your own credit card machine, doesn't it connect with a particular service for your merchant account? And you're charged for that, correct? I would talk to your merchant account provider, I suspect they have the hooks you can use for your online processing as well, and the fee would be similar.

Dave

[::John::]

It is the shopping cart software, I think, that the OP is asking about, not the CC transactions.

[ChrisLUM]

Yeah i am asking more for a shopping cart software designed for photographers that want to host and process their own photos. What options do i have?

Chris

[tracknut]

Ah, sorry. Two possibilities I'm aware of:

1. EOS Template for JAlbum
2. PhotoCart from picturespro.com

I would *really* like PhotoCart, except that (after I bought it) I found out it really has no good way to sell digital images, it's really made for prints. So I'm not using it, but anxiously waiting for the next version.

I'm currently using my own skin for JAlbum to do order handling, but I've heard many folks like the EOS template for it.

Dave