On 1/29/07, snacktime <snacktime-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
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> This is half announcement, half question. I am in the process of
> creating an open source ecommerce suite in ruby and rails. After
> spending the last 12 years writing similar closed source applications
> I now have the opportunity to implement it as open source, which is
> something I''ve been wanting to do for a while now.
>
> The question I have been debating over is mostly about ease of use for
> the merchant. The design calls for two components. One is a thin
> payment gateway and everything else is in the other component. Think
> of your average shopping cart and payment gateway all combined in one
> unified UI, and the gateway literally being just an api without any
> UI at all. The only drawback to this approach is that it moves more
> of the responsibility to the merchant. They would need to maintain
> their database, monitor a management daemon/cron task, etc.. The
> alternative is to have the customer/order management UI as part of the
> gateway, which would mean it would not be customizable unless you
> host the gateway component yourself, which most people would not be
> doing. Personally I like the former approach using the thin gateway.
>
> We will be offering hosting options, so I''m thinking that will be
good
> enough for merchants that want someone else to manage all the
> technical stuff. Due to visa/mastercard rules it will also be pretty
> tough for the average merchant to host the gateway component, so we
> will also be providing a payment gateway service based on our own open
> source platform. It will be free for those that host the entire suite
> with us, and less expensive then any other gateway even for those that
> don''t.
>
> Comments welcome...
>
> Chris
Exciting - I''ll be looking forward to seeing the API.
Good luck.
--
Zack Chandler
http://depixelate.com
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