What are the steps needed to establish a e-commerce website with financial transactions?
A website which will have search capabilties and finnacial transaction will be only subscription.
I know i was asking things very broad and i got some good answers. Now i get into specifics..
What kind of IT system i require to support my website with following detials
1. I would like to own my servers and system and so where can i get it or any cost effective strategy initally untill i get a good business
2. What kind of server shoudl be good to support an online website where atleast at point of time there can be 10000 users searching
3. If i need to give atleast 20 mb space per registered user(initially the user base can be 10000)
4. What kind of technical skills do i need to design a solid service oreiented architecure and advanced web based features for the website
5. It will not be a shopping site
6. How can i get in touch with the right people
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You have no idea how long the answer to that question could be. Try searching Yahoo! for "setting up an ecommerce website" and read some of the articles.
this is a pretty loaded question. i suggest you break this question down and ask the specifics of what you’re looking for rather than such a large question.
in general, if you’re a non-tech person looking to set up shop online, there’s a few ways to go:
* some packaged ecom software (like yahoo small business) – least amount of tech knowledge required without large expense
* a web shop that will set up a custom ecom site for you – very expensive, but most professional result
* paypal/hateway abstraction provider – will need to be comfortable with cutting and pasting a little html.