Building a secured Credit Card Site...

[deltaf508]

Some of you may remember a question I posted about a week or so ago. Do any of you donate your services (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum17/HTML/002985.html) I was asked to build an informational site for a non-profit organization for little or no cost (which it turns out, I will get some payment for). Well I have met with them twice now, and it seems they want to be able to accept credit card donations from their site. The people whom I have talked with know little about computers in general, but mentioned they want the site secure (I can only assume meaning they want the little padlock to show up in the bottom of the donations page). I told them I have never done an e-commerce site per se, and that I would do some research to find out how difficult or easy this would be along with how much a service like this would cost. My question(s) for you all is:

First of all, How hard is it to generate the code to do this? We're only looking at one page here (the donations page). Would it be possible for me to come up with something in FrontPage? (I usually despise FrontPage, but don't know any other programs to make this possible) Here is an example of what they want, It is another site that is a very similar program to theirs: Kempe example (https://ss1.electricstores.com/Kempe/Gift-form.htm)

If I could design a site (like the one linked above) that would simply E-mail the input of the boxes to them at a known E-mail address (when the submit button was pushed) I know that would be fine, as long as it was "secure" and in their words (again...the padlock thingy) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif Then after they get the E-mail they can punch in the Card # into the machine at the office. Nothing really Hi-tech about it, but good enough to get the job done for them (and easy enough for them to understand the whole procedure). They are not expecting to Triple donations or anything because of the website they just want the readers to have it available.

Next, how much does something like this cost, if any?

Or, should I just bail... J/K http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

Honestly, I know how to code HTML (pretty good for that matter), I don't know ASP and all that jazz, but I have coded C++ VB and some others, so I know how to work through the different languages. I really don't know a lot about E-commerce however, but I would like to learn how it all works so this would be a great opportunity for me.

They already have the site name purchased and a host for it here locally with a reputable ISP. I read in another post (after searching) that it is a relatively non-trivial procedure...Is this true?

I know this is rather long (but I sure feel better just asking everyone) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Thanks for your input,

Gary

[This message has been edited by deltaf508 (edited 04-19-2001).]

[randy48]

That site like most others use a third party site for their credit card transactions. Most of them have a pretty good handle on security. They also hold security certificates, etc. If you build the site yourself, they'll need a site host that offers SSL (secure socket layer) services and it would be wise to add security certification from someone like Verisign. This makes the customer feel a little better when the little window pops-up saying the site is certified! The least expensive/least headache would be use a third party, if the site is hacked and loses personal data (card numbers), the third party is responsible, not your client!

[deltaf508]

OK, thanks, but how much does this service typically cost?

Gary