My brother hired Dogtech.com to do his small business e-commerce website. I did the basic web pages in FrontPage and then passed them over to DogTech who imbedded some shopping basket stuff into my web pages to make it online ordering capable. It cost him about $800 for all the programming because he has about 20 pages of items for people to order from. That included him giving them a huge inventory in MS Access of all of their items for sale with codes for what webpages each item should end up on.

To save on order processing costs he just gets a filled out order form in his e-mailbox. And manually processes the order using a std. credit card transaction machine. The credit card number is on the e-mail that he receives.

Most of the people I have worked with on web sites find the e-commerce software to be cost prohibitive when you automate it to the point that it runs itself. We followed Amazon.Coms basic page layout and flow since we know they are a success.

If you want to see how his website works. You can visit DrumSupply.COM

You can do a fake order, but don't submit it when you are all done. Let me know if that would do what you need.

And when I used to build websites for profit, many people just made an order form in FrontPage that people could fill out and fax in with everything filled out. That was the cheapest way to go and worked pretty well. Because you could still do credit card processing manually when the filled out orders came faxing in. I wrote the order form page in JavaScript so that the ordering person could choose qty. and then I would programmatically calculate shipping and handling and total including freight and tax. Most people went this route and did not need any e-commerce software. Just a credit card machine to handle processing of orders. If you want more information, I may have some websites you can look at.

HTH