I run a residents association. Part of that is that I organise the window cleaning for residents who want it. Currently I do this via a Google Docs form, and then people give me cash. Problems with this include:
People complete the form and then "forget" to pay me - hence they don't get their windows cleaned.
People pay me but neglect to complete the form - hence they don't get their windows cleaned and I then have to pay them back.
I have to go through all the form responses and tally the payments to the responses.
I was thinking of moving this into some sort of online system using a shopping cart style experience:
User selects the single item from the store (3 "sizes" of item available at 3 prices - necessary to represent the 3 different window cleaning options).
The item is placed into a basket.
The checkout page asks a couple of necessary questions:
Name
Address
Telephone number
User pays for the item (Paypal preferably)
I can go into whatever system and pull off the list
This seems (IMHO) to resolve the above issues. I'm an experienced developer with over 25 years experience - but I see no value in reinventing the wheel. Are there any free ecommerce platforms that would fulfil the above? Out site is SSL protected and so on - so I've no worries there. I'd rather use Paypal than actual credit card payments. Also, if I could pass some details into the store then all the better (eg: Link from the main site includes their property reference, then that's handy but not essential).
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Dick Montage
Hey, this is gonna take some explaining...
I run a residents association. Part of that is that I organise the window cleaning for residents who want it. Currently I do this via a Google Docs form, and then people give me cash. Problems with this include:
I was thinking of moving this into some sort of online system using a shopping cart style experience:
This seems (IMHO) to resolve the above issues. I'm an experienced developer with over 25 years experience - but I see no value in reinventing the wheel. Are there any free ecommerce platforms that would fulfil the above? Out site is SSL protected and so on - so I've no worries there. I'd rather use Paypal than actual credit card payments. Also, if I could pass some details into the store then all the better (eg: Link from the main site includes their property reference, then that's handy but not essential).
Thank you
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