Re: Head spinning, ecommerce solution regret?
To script a fully functional shopping cart would likely cost you in excess of $3000.00. I've done all the changes on my site myself and I'd never have gotten them done for under $5000.00.
There's a lot of programming logic and database functionality required to track pricing, items, descriptions, images and stock counts, not to mention customer-centric data, payment gateway integration, login information and so forth.
Considering that a programmer/developer who's worth his/her salt would charge $50-$150.00 an hour, I'd start with a free cart and modify it to get it to do what you want it to do.
In addition, there are a lot of security vulnerabilities inherent with processing payments online. You want a solution that's tested and that provides security updates. Go with an established cart.
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