By mirko on

I've been asked to work on a website where shopping should be enabled.

The situation is a bit specific since I won't need the full e-commerce features.

I'll need to use a shopping cart and have credit card informations handled in a secure way. Paiements will not be made right away, but the card number and other informations need to be transfered in a secure way. Different currencies need to be handled too (swiss francs, euros and dollars) and no order under 50 dollars should be accepted...

Should I use the e-commerce module to do that? Can it handle it all?

My drupal level is not too bad, but I am not a coder, so I won't be able to do major changes to the module if needed... I also have no experience so far with e-commerce and security on internet.

I feel ready to do some extra work to do handle this website, but I would like your opinion on whether I should accept to do it or if I should refuse. Please also tell me if there is some special things to know to host a secure drupal site.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and (maybe) answering...

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wisdom commented

1)Once the checkout completes on e-commerce site the customer is transfered to the secure website of the payment gateway. Ecommerce modules to my knowledge saves customer addresses and other transaction informations execluding credit card/banking informations.

2) Yes you can adjust the minimum purchase request. For example to pay with paypal a minimum purchase of $5 required.

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mirko commented

Thanks for your answer, but is there a way to handle the credit card informations to get them in a secure way?
It's a small business and he can proceed credit card orders from office, but he needs to check if he has the products...

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wisdom commented

If the customer provides you all the necesseary credit card information and billing address by coming to your office or by phone, yes, it is possible to use ecommerce for product inventory and other aspects of store management and process payments on his behalf.

However, the base e-commerce modules are designed such that the customer carries out the complete transaction. I have not seen a module where the merchant takes credit card information from the customer online and request payment processing. But it is possible to add a module and extend the functionality e-commerce that way. I think I saw a discussion somewhere on this topic and on this site and you might like to search throughly if there are some modules built to take credit card information online for back office payment processing.

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