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IVOOG,
The difference between the web site that you showed us and yours is that, they paid to have their web site designed and developed exclusively for them. As an E-commerce developer, I can say that the shopping cart they are using is Magento Ecommerce.
and Word Press for their Blog.
Magento is vastly Growing in Popularity and only a handful of developers know how to modify the templates. As for the Word-Press Integration, you can install the modules that allow you to integrate the Word-Press Registration to the whole site...

My Question to you is why do you want to use Google Checkout? Most people don`t use that because there`s been flaws in the Code and People have been hacked.

See that it pays to have your site professionally designed? if you decide to go with a new media[shopping cart] you`re going to have to delay your launch date...





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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

That really is not an option for me

There has to be some service out there. Currently (the really old website) uses www.e-junkie.com as the shopping cart, but like I said, when the user clicks pay by credit card it goes to the e-junkie website which sounds very phishing.

The payment options I must accept in the shopping cart are Google Checkout, Paypal and Authorize.net for Credit Cards. The reason I like Google Checkout is that its the best alternative to Paypal (and Paypal freezes my funds half the time for no reason, not to mention the time I got suspended for absolutely nothing) which is not very reliable, but I still would like to include for customers.

To be honest, there is no rule that says you have to use Google Checkout or Pay Pal, Have you tried Looking at other Alternatives such as 2Checkout? These are alternatives to using Pay Pal or Google Checkout.
And! it is up to you what you want to accept. If the customer wants to purchase from you, then you set the terms (your policies). Having a secondary payment Processor is an alternative, it just tells the end user that you are flexible. Also, remember depending on how you set your pay pal settings is how your transactions are going to be processed:

1. Authorize transaction - just puts the money in a holding tank until you ship the product.
2. Sale transaction - Automatically deducts the money from the customer`s pay pal or Credit Card.

Pay Pal tends to put money on hold if: Owner(seller) does not notify the customer that their items are on their way. I`ve heard of many Pay Pal horror stories... Which is why you should make up your mind if you want to use it as an alternative. I know people that use Pay Pal, and have discontinued it... just how I have people that swore on Google Checkout just to find out that they got hacked...




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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

We`re going a little off topic here XD

I agree with you but still want to accept Google Checkout, Paypal and Authorize.net simply because they are the most popular and customers often think they are the safest ways to pay for a specific retail website. (minus authorize.net, it`s just for credit cards which is definitely required).

I stumbled upon http://www.comersus.com/! I think its what I want but the website looks terrible and noone is answering customer service...and it costs $299! (To accept my payment methods). So...I guess I won`t use it

These prices sound appropriate for the size of the task.  What surprises me is that if you are so concerned about using onsite commerce suites, you would have thought about this while you built the site.

Most offsite ecommerce providers, PayPal included, will allow you to muck about the HTML files for your cart system so that you control the appearance of the transaction.

The truth is, *most* users don`t care!



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I don`t make ecommerce websites with this many pages often. So I am used to just creating html pages and linking them together to make a website (the normal way to do it). I did this with the 100 pages I made for the site and thought the shopping cart would just be a quick mysql installation and then a little code for the buttons.

But, I can`t find one like this. Well, actually I just found a solution!: http://www.ultracart.com/online-shopping-cart/advanced-ultra-cart-features/ but its $49.95 per month! Of course I can afford that but I just feel sad buying it since there is so much free software out there (full e-commerce solutions). Sadly, I cannot redesign everything and hiring a web developer or redesigning everything myself with e-commerce software is just a waste since I worked so hard on all these pages that are already DONE. My question still remains, if anyone knows a low cost or free solution for a non-hosted shopping cart that I can integrate into my server to work with html websites please talk! Thanks.

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Thanks everyone for helping.

I really don`t want to use Zen Cart for many reasons (including that the pages are not very search engine friendly, especially the address of them) and have made up my mind. YAY!

I have gotten over the fact about a hosted shopping cart being at another URL after convincing the shopping cart provider that I can customize the page! So thanks again for helping!