A one-product e-commerce site with full backend

Discussion in 'Programming' started by blanktorp, Jan 6, 2009.

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    Hi everyone,

    I hope that this is the right section for this...(I think my question spans across several categories potentially)

    I'd like to build an e-commerce site with only one product. In addition to the consumer-facing site, I also need the full back-end with payment processing (ordering), accounting and billing (invoice creation and customer information management - even to be able to automatically print shipping labels at the end of the day), etc.

    Since I'm not experienced with this, I'd hugely appreciate some help and suggestions.

    My main concern is whether I should try to build everything myself (or rather hire someone...) and find products/services that I can integrate together or if I should use a company/product like Volusion that apparently does it all?

    Also, since this is only for one product, it's sort of like those "Seen on TV" things or like landing pages that sell ebooks and do other offers (although this is for an actual physical product) - should I make this look like one of those affiliate landing pages or still make it a 5-page mini-site, etc.


    Any thoughts at all or hints or help are much appreciated.

    Thanks for your time!
     
    blanktorp, Jan 6, 2009 IP
  2. blanktorp

    blanktorp Active Member

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    Is this most likely the wrong section for this?

    Thanks
     
    blanktorp, Jan 7, 2009 IP