Ooops! What i meant to ask was what is easiest and most affordable shopping cart/credit card processing way to go? oscommerce, zencart, authorize.net, wahmshoppes, pappashoppes, etc???? THANKS!

Excluding Paypal and Google Checkout

I am in India, Noida. I want to either make an ecommerce website and want to sell stuff like Indian Clothes internationally. I want a very cheap website plus hosting and domain name. I want to pay only in Indian Rupees. Can anyone tell me where can I look for the information. I want someone form India and to whom I can trust and pay online.

I own a Yahoo! Merchants Solutions store and I’m trying to figure out the pros and cons of accepting payments through PayPal. Is it really necessary? I understand that PayPal has become a widely used method of payment and a lot of people actually prefer to pay through PayPal rather than pay by non-PayPal credit card payments (I guess they find some security in paying with PayPal?). I already have a merchant account set up to accept regular credit card payments. Is it really a good idea to accept PayPal, too? The good thing about accepting payments through PayPal on my website is that a customer does not need to be registered with PayPal in order to use it. That is definitely a plus. Is there anyone that owns a website and has had a good experience accepting PayPal AND regular merchant acc’t credit card payments? Is there anyone who has had a negative experience accepting PayPal payments on their

Maybe I’m not getting it because I’m at work, or just having a slow day, but has anyone used ECommerce and can explain to me how it works? There are no charges listed on their site, they claim to be free. Are they really a free web hosting service? And do you have to register your domain name with another service? Do you set up your website through ECommerce or somewhere else? I’m so confused . . .

what does a ecommerce site need to be accessible to china and the mainland chinese online community?

I’ve secured a contract to buy used office equipment. I’d like to re-sell it on the web. Ebay is not an option. Yahoo and Google have interesting startup programs. Are there better, cheaper, easier places to look?

how many type of servers will be used,what is the database more used to make website.
can anyone give me complete infrastructure for that.
like a flow chart

Just how hard is it to start a store? And, does anybody know of a great "semi-easy to use" method for starting one?