Electronic Payments/online shopping facilities

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

Hi,

I was just wondering if anybody knows about adding things like 'shopping carts' and 'electronic payments' to a website.
We (the wife and I) are ok with building a website in general, but we have not yet tried to add these types of facilities.
I believe we need to get hold of something called "e-commerce" (which I imagine is something that can be downloaded)?
However, does anyone know where is a good place to get hold of this and whether there is anything else we need to know.
We did get some information from a 'computer expert' and he was going on about the format of the website (something about html pages being no good and that the website had to support something else - it didn't mean a lot to me I'm afraid).

What we are really after is something that we can add to a website that we are going to build which will allow us to include on that website the following functions:

Display as shopping trolley/cart/basket
Make electronic payments (Paypal etc)
Add Discounts

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Cheers

Andrew

[Lissa]

The PayPal website has a lot about this - it looks like they'll take you through it step by step.

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

Thanks Lissa - we will have a look and see if it does what we need it to do.

[Paul Monk]

Oooh very interesting. I'm just wondering what site you're setting up now.

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

Oooh very interesting. I'm just wondering what site you're setting up now.

I shouldn't get too excited if I were you. Besides it's something that Oksana is thinking of doing, rather than anything I'm planning to do.