Hi All,
We are evaluating options for a basic e-commerce site and would love your input. We've looked at several payment gateway/shopping cart options, but are having trouble sorting through the complexities. We need a very basic solution (we only have one product)and are open to either a full service provider (shopping cart and payment gateway in one) or multiple providers.
In particular, we are having trouble finding a provider(s) that offers all of the following:
(1) a shopping cart that integrates with Fulfillment by Amazon;
(2) an easy option for our accountants, who use Quickbooks and are not technical (most solutions don't offer direct Quickbooks integration); and
(3) a payment gateway that offers complete data portability (are Stripe and Braintree the only providers that offer this?).
A full list of our evaluation criteria is below.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Inder
Shopping Cart criteria:
- Simple and low-cost: we only have one product, no need for features like recurring billing, but system should be able to calculate taxes and shipping costs
- Integration with our payment gateway, Quickbooks, and Fulfillment by Amazon
- Good user experience
- Ideally we would like to host it on our site
- Customer support
Payment Gateway criteria
- Cost
- Integration with Quickbooks and shopping cart provider
- Portability of data
- Accessibility of funds (e.g. Payout period, risk of holding back money)
- Customer support
- Setup time
- Back end support costs