hello all,
In the coming months, I will be tasked with creating an e-commerce site for the first time. I've worked with e-commerce sites before, making edits and themes but never made one from the bottom up.
I know this isn't a small undertaking which is why i'm doing research now!
This will be done in php/mysql
Thanks for the help guys!
Credit card processing is a huge gottcha - It can cost heaps if you don't get it right, and it can cost even more if you give up and farm the processing out to someone else at huge transaction fee %ages.
Also, there are a tonne of decent open source / cheap options in PHP (as well as in C# and JEE). My company actually bought a small company that had done a souped-up version of an open-source version of an eCommerce store.
Finally, keep a really good eye on master-data. This can screw you if you end up tracking customers and sales items in different ways than you track them in other system. In my case, this meant very expensive integration with our CRM, Identity, and Sales systems.