[thelist] ecommerce setup which only entails downloading the product

[kevin D. white]

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Might want to look at outsourced services for this.  I think both Tucows
and Yahoo! offer ecommerce services with a download-only option. You really
can't code e-commerce without back-end scripting like PHP, ASP, JSP,...etc.
 A database wouldn't be an absolute requirement but it sure can make things
easier.

The big PITA with download-only is that sometimes the connection drops so
you have to develop a scheme where people can login and download the
software again.  Not a huge problem to be sure, just extra stuff to do.

I've never used Paypal so I have no advice there.

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From: "Sharon F. Malone" <sfmalo at 24caratdesign.com>
:
: Have a client who wants buyers to purchase his shareware by download
only. So, no product would be physically shipped to a buyer. Not quite sure
how to construct the coding for this. That is, click a Buy Now button
taking buyer to the order form first where they would enter their credit
card info, then that would pass to a Download page for the actual
downloading of the zip file ????? If so, what about the time in between
where the credit card info should be verified before download.
:
: Could all this be done without using PHP, etc. or any database work?
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