E-Commerce

Do you wish to add a shopping cart to your site or a means to take payments on-line?

This guide will help you choose the features you will need. We suggest you also check our Hosting packages comparison chart to determine the hosting package that would suit your needs.

Web Auction

This is a feature of the CGI package available to PDS Hosting customers (check the package comparison chart). Web Auction allows you to set up and run your own eBay type operation.

Secure Server Access

This feature allows you to accept data securely via your website using our special url www.secure-secure.co.uk. Your secure web address will be: https://www.secure-secure.co.uk/yourdomain.co.uk/. This address points to the main folder on your website so you can make any document on your website secure.

Personalised Secure Server - Additional Cost Option

Now you can have your own personalised secure server at a fantastic price. With your own secure server your customers can go to https://www.yourdomain.com instead of using our generic secure server service. This makes your site look more professional.

Once you have your own secure server any files in your public_html directory can be called from your secure address. Please ask about a package upgrade Sales@PDS.

Accept Credit Cards Online!

This feature allows you to signup for an Internet Merchant account with WorldPay.
WorldPay enable thousands of businesses to accept payments on the internet, by phone, fax or mail. Credit and debit cards, bank transfers, instalments - even mobile payments. In any language and most currencies. All through one merchant account, one payment processing system.

Agora Shopping Cart

Agora Shopping Cart is Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software with limitless flexibility in many areas including full design controls through Cascading Style Sheets (css), template systems, customizable layouts, custom individual product category layouts and templates, customisation of nearly all cart features for the code hobbyist, modular "drop in and go" code as well as AgoraScript, it's own scripting language inside parsed HTML pages, that experienced programmers can appreciate.

Currently you can accept on-line payments through all these gateways: 2Checkout; AgoraPay; Authorize.net; eWay; iTransact; intellipay; LinkPoint Connect; PayFlow Link; PayPal; PayPal IPN; Plug 'n Pay; ProPay; PsiGate; USA ePay; Verisign PayFlow Link and YourPay. A facility is also provided to accept offline or manually entered payment details.

Checkout Agora's homepage for more details. Agora could be considered an entry-level cart system.

CubeCart Shopping Cart

CubeCart is a sophisticated eCommerce script written with PHP & MySQL. With CubeCart you can setup a powerful online store using your PDS hosting supporting PHP and one MySQL database.

CubeCart would suit a major e-commerce site. CubeCart supports all of these payment gateways:

2Checkout; AsianPay; Authorize.net; BluePay; CCAvenue; CCNow; e0Gold; eWay; iTransact; intellipay; LinkPoint Connect; Nochex; PayFlow Link; PayJunction; Paymate; PayPal; PayPal IPN; PayPal Professional; Plug 'n Pay; ProPay; protx; PsiGate; SECPay; USA ePay; and WorldPay.

Check out the CubeCart website for more details, including extensive and easy to follow tutorials.

osCommerce Shopping Cart

osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort.

osCommerce combines Open Source solutions to provide a open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language and the fast MySQL database server. osCommerce could be viewed as a mid-level shopping cart system.

With osCommerce you can accept offline payment processing by cheque, money orders and offline credit care processing. You can also accept online payment via a number of processing systems including 2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net and iPayment.

Why not find out more by visiting the osCommerce site?

Zen Cart

Zen Cart is an open-source shopping cart system.

Zen Cart supports all these features amongst many: multiple customer modes; unlimited category depth; multiple sales and discounts; multiple display modes; a XHTML template system; unlimited extra pages; multiple ad banner controller; multiple shipping options; multiple payment options; newsletter manager; discount coupons; gift certificates; featured products and quantity discounts.

Zen Cart currently supports 41 payment gateways and like a number of other features, these are contained in optional, add-on modules.

Take a look at the Zen Cart home site for more details.