Date: 03/06/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: software, web, hosting, shopping

I'm a programmer who has recently been pushed into a position of web designer where I work. I'm designing a very small site for a customer of ours, and they would like the ability to accept orders online. They wanted a simple form that would email orders to them. I knew I could easily program such a thing, but told them that email is not secure for collecting credit card information, and that they would most likely need some sort of shopping cart software. The company which they purchased hosting through offers a shopping cart program for $9 a month. Otherwise I can try to implement some free shopping cart software.

My question is this: Is there any way to do secure ordering the way they want without a shopping cart? They don't want to use PayPal, or any other service that costs them money per sale. They simply want a form to come to them listing the order and the credit card info, which they can then process themselves. If not, then can anyone suggest some good free shopping carts that are simple to implement (I imagine they'll want to update on their own once the site is live)? I apologize if my questions seem naive. Like I said, I am new to web design.

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