I have a website that sells embroidered corporate wear. I have it set up that customers can pay from an invoice (through Quickbooks) at Intuit's secure site after getting a quote from me. The online catalog is provided by my wholesaler. But I want to change it up and have my own small catalog. I'm not going to set up a database (only because I don't know anything about PHP and MySQL)...I know it's going to be a lot of pages - 80 items...it's "do-able". I don't want Paypal and probably not any free shopping carts because I'm not that knowledgable. A Yahoo store would be okay, but I want to use my own site with a checkout feature. I thought about a secure form, but that would make my customers manually list their items. I want the customers to load a shopping cart and then provide their credit card info, but I want to control when it gets charged. I could use some advice. Sorry, I didn't mean to get so windy.

Even though you say that you don't want paypal, it is by far the easiest method. Paypal provides everything necessary to receive payments. Highly recommend.

You could check out Amazon web stores.
http://webstore.amazon.com/WebStore-Beta/

I haven't used it, but I have been looking for store options recently also and thought Amazon had some good features that may fit you.

Originally Posted by mantasx

Even though you say that you don't want paypal, it is by far the easiest method. Paypal provides everything necessary to receive payments. Highly recommend.

For a budget, it's the easiest.

@ and3008

Sounds like you need a PDQ machine if you want to process payments within your own time and not have it done automatically but this costs money

You ought to consider Magento. It stores CC info and you can print it out then process it then update the status and notify customer to "payment processed".

You will have your own checkout page, catalog and CMS management for any additional pages you wish to have.

Installing it is easy, just follow the instructions but customising it is a whole different ball game but with that being said, if you just change the logo then you got yourself a store albeit with a default template but it's a store nevertheless.

http://www.magento.com
If you have funds, get a freelance Magento designer to help you out.