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I have a non Ecommerce site that I sell my custom products on. Is it possible to put a link on my site that would go to a Ecommerce site for paying for items ordered om my non Ecommerce site.
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Sure, you can use paypal just like that.  Otherwise, check out carts for pay such as 3dcart.com or opensource carts you can install on your server like opencart.com.
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Would rather not use Paypal. I did checkout both suggestions and not sure that's what I need. What I am trying to do is put up 1 web page and connect it to our PCCharge account. I would like to send our customer an email with their order# and amount have them log on to the payment website and pay there bill. I would get some form of notification that payment has been received and then I would ship their order.

It all sounds like a simple process for an Ecommerce site but our business is so customized it would be very difficult to design a site around it. Several attempts have been unsuccessful.
our business is so customized it would be very difficult to design a site around it
I would accept that challenge.  I hear that all the time.  

Back to your question.  

I am trying to do is put up 1 web page and connect it to our PCCharge account.
You first need to list out your products on a web page.  If you have just a few products, you can do this by hand.  If you have many products you will want to have this run from a database.

I would like to send our customer an email with their order# and amount have them log on to the payment website and pay there bill.
The customers will select their products, enter their personal info, click save.  They get an email invoice with their order number and how to pay.   An additional email would go directly to you.

I would get some form of notification that payment has been received and then I would ship their order
Customer logs in to the payment page with their order number.  They are presented with the amount that is saved in the database.  They fill in their payment info and process payment.  If it is approved, you and the customer get an email.  If not the customer gets a message.

This is actually a very cumbersome way to go. I know in thought it sounds easier.  But from a customers point of view, first I have to find the product, enter in my info, wait for an email, maybe look through my spam folder, now log in to another page.... no!

You want this to be seamless and integrated.  The two links I provided do the same thing although one is a paid service and holds your hand and the other is open source that you install on your server.   Both make the entire process seamless.  You pick your products, products are saved in a "cart" (really just storage in memory or a cookie).  When they want to pay, they click the cart button and enter in the payment info.  You can program an email to go to you as well as customer.

I have only worked in creating custom ecommerce and only just started using opencart for people that want something fast and cheap.  

connect it to our PCCharge account
I did a quick look up and you have to install a dll on your server to do this.  From there, an api will talk to your cart and payment processor.  However, I think you are better off getting a traditional merchant account.  The newer way to send payments through a gateway is a simple post over https or via xml/soap/json where the api/webservice is hosted by the gateway.

It is really more involved then you think and at the same time you need to make it easy for the client.  If this does sound confusing, I would either get a developer that can help you do this on a custom basis, or research a few paid cart vendors like 3dcart. I have never used 3dcart but their site looks pretty cool.  There are others similar to what they do as well.

If you want to tackle this on your own, I would suggest breaking out each point into a separate question and get that working before going to the next step.

1) Listing products (adding /editing/showing on site)
2) Saving products to a cart
3) Using your gateway to process payments
4) Sending email (this may be taken care of in the gateway)
^ above sounds perfect to me and that guy sounds like knowing his stuff.  See if you can get a hold of him and get this done for you.

If not. look for a third party client and billing management system that should be it and handles all your requirements .  I am not a designer so don't have much idea how it can be done using APIs but with my knowledge of Payment processors and website designs its clear that there is "nothing" which cannot be built as a website
I agree, Padas seems to know exactly what to do. Let me just throw this into the mix. I'm looking in Braintree and Google Checkout, and Fat Free cart. Can you shine any light on these, please.
If he does not like pay pal, you probably wouldn't like google checkout.  

If you go with a traditional processor and your average transaction is over $25 and you do more then $2500 per month you will probably come out better.  These other easy sites will typically charge about 3% plus 25 to 30 cents.  The traditional processor will have multiple rates depending on the card used and some other fees.  But if you add everything up, you start coming out ahead based on the above.  If you are going to have a few small transactions each month, then these e-z do it yourself things without commitments are good.   I like  using a traditional processor because I can interact with my database.  Others may have closed systems.
Well most purchases are above $25 and the monthly is over $2500. Can you tell me what your choice would be. We accept most major credit cards. All Transaction are through PCCharge and it's very time consuming.
If you don't need much hand holding and want full interactivity with your own data, I would use a traditional processor.  

I have looked over braintree in the past.   They do seem to make it easy with a lot of api's.  I have never used them.  If you are not into your own programming, that may not make a difference.  The "easy" comes at a little bit of a price.  You will see they have one price of 2.9% and 30 cents per transaction but no other fees.  You can get to 2% with some low fees that will give you an effective rate lower then this.

One of the vendors I like is NewTek.  Michael Sbardella, Vice President of Merchant Services
Phone: (877-323-4678 x12265  msbardella@thesba.com.    This allows you to control every part of the transaction.   You will need to understand api's.  If that is too much, an off the shelf cart like opencart can install on your server and use mysql and I think it can use ms sql too.
I looked at NewTek and I like what I see so far. I'll go ahead and give them a try and see if the boss goes for it. You've been a big help padas. I'll check back if this doesn't work out.
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How did you make out with this?
Someone else got the assignment. He's using Braintree. Seems like it's working so far. Just looks more expensive the other options like Authorize.net. I'll let you know how it turns out. Thanks for checking back...