Hi all,
Im a webmaster venturing into my first e-commerce site (outside of PayPal). The customer I'm going to do this for is most likely not going to be doing over $1000.00 a month for some time so I think that 2CO, PayQuake or similiar will do just fine (unless I hear otherwise...hint hint) . I have two questions though:

1. The customer sells food items of various weights. How do I calculate their shipping costs for various products? Do you calculate an average? Or is it based on the cost of the item? This is for domestic shipping only (US).

2. The customer already has a POS system with a keyed entry pad for CC processing. Technically it would seem feasible that I could write a PHP script to email the data to them, thereby eliminating gateway/merchant fees. I'm concerned obviously about the security of this. What are the security holes in this method? Is it a viable method or is this looked at as bad business practice?


Thanks Prior for your advice. Thank heavens for this forumn or I'd be lost in a sea of mis-information.

LiquidD