I am looking into building a website to support my small business. I
am an entrepreneur with five different products for sale. It is
obvious that I will need some sort of online payment service to accept
and process credit card orders through purchases made through my
website. Can you recommend the most efficient, reliable and
cost-effective service?  I do not anticipate a lot of traffic with my
products at first and, therefore, will just need one that is reliable,
flexible, service-oriented and reasonably priced. Your suggestions
will be appreciated. Thank you.

Debra Marshall
mommaroseproductions@cox.net

I treid several programs in the last years and so I can recommend a
god software from my own experiences:
I use the "easy to use" but still quite powerfull shopfactory software
to create webshops. It supports a lot of paying methods incl. credit
card validation and you can add your own paying methods so itīs
flexible.
orders are encrypted using the modern ssl technology and the best
thing is: you do not have to have a server that supports thsi
technology because transactions are made over servers by the
manufacturer of the software.
a lot of nice layouts for the shops are included so it should not be a
problem to find a design that fits your requests.

you can dowmload a demo at ( www.shopfactory.com )
a shop created with the software can be found at  (
http://www.mueller-feuerwerk.de/Shop/enter.html ). Itīs a german site
but it should not be a problem for you to see the basic functions even
if you donīt know german.

As i give my own experiences as a webdesigner no web search hints are
listed here.

till-ga

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Clarification of Answer by till-ga on 04 Jun 2002 00:07 PDT

uups: sorry for mistyping in my answer: here the corrected version - i
was to nervous with my first answer in google answers...

I tried several programs in the last years and so I can recommend a
good software from my own experiences:
I use the "easy to use" but still quite powerfull shopfactory software
to create webshops. It supports a lot of paying methods incl. credit
card validation and you can add your own paying methods so itīs
flexible.
orders are encrypted using the modern ssl technology and the best
thing is: you do not have to have a server that supports this
technology because transactions are made over servers by the
manufacturer of the software.
a lot of nice layouts for the shops are included so it should not be a
problem to find a design that fits your requests.
 
you can dowmload a demo at ( www.shopfactory.com ) 
a shop created with the software can be found at  (
http://www.mueller-feuerwerk.de/Shop/enter.html ). Itīs a german site
but it should not be a problem for you to see the basic functions even
if you donīt know german.
 
As i give my own experiences as a webdesigner no web search hints are
listed here.
 
till-ga

Please check out at http://www.knowlage.com/sme/i.htm. I hope you
would find your solution.