E-commerce
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E-commerce

I have no experience of e-commerce myself, but other people do:

• Philip and Alex's guide to web Publishing:

  Arsdigita.com/books/panda/  
  Has an entire chapter on e-commerce and details on his problems as a programmer with credit card validation.

   

• ComputerActive's guide to setting up your own webstore

  http://www.pcw.co.uk/computeractive/features/2138384/set-own-webstore

   

• Lists of e-commerce vendors:

  • Dmoz.org has lists under the categories:
    • Computers/Software/Business/E-Commerce
    • Business/E-Commerce
    • Business/Financial_Services/Merchant_Services
    • Regional/Europe/United Kingdom/Business and Economy/Computers and Internet/Internet/Commercial Services/E-Commerce Solutions
    • Regional/Europe/United Kingdom/Business and Economy/Financial Services/Merchant Services .

   

• Methods of taking money. 

  • Secure payment systems:

    • Verisign's payment division was Cybercash.com.
    • Verifone.com

     

  • Guides:

    • Natwest.com - Natwest Streamline.

     

  • Certificates:

    • BT Trustwise

     

  • Bureaus:

    • Ishop.co.uk
    • Netbanx.com
    • Worldpay.com

     

  • Merchants:

    • Secpay.com
    • Ardeo.com
    • Clickandbuild.com
    • Floyd.co.uk
    • Intershop.com
    • Datacash.com
    • Securetrading.com

     

  • Credit card validation:

    • Beachnet.com/~hstiles/cardtype.html - how to check programmatically if a credit card appears valid.

   

• Ecommerce systems from specific companies:

  • Spiders-web.com -Transactions take place in "real-time" and they can offer multiple currencies.
    Processing facilities - £125/year (approx $200)
    Merchant Service Charge - 4.5%/transaction
    Debit Card Charge - 50p (approx 80¢).

Why not use a robust database to store your data? See running Oracle databases on Linux.