Selling online
mseebach: I've been playing with a business idea for a while, that I think would be appropriate for a situation like this:For ease, I'll call my product, "the processor" and my client "the seller". I define a microformat on top of HTML that defines a product. Name, price, maybe options/attributes, very simple. This can be added to a blog-post, myspace-page, anyone on the web with minimum HTML access. Place a link to my service on that page that says "put in basket". The processor examines the referrer, creates a session with a cookie, adds the product, and returns the visitor. On the seller-page, there's a bit of javascript that pulls the basket from the processor and displays it, along with "show basket" and "checkout" links. Checkout runs on the processor, on an unbranded page, maybe even with some "magic" pulling the layout of the seller-page, and integrates the sellers Paypal or Google Checkout or whatever payment service. Business model is to charge some fee or percentage on all orders above a certain threshold.Does it make sense? Could it work? Does it already exist?