general advice on store implementation

[dazzathedrummer]

Hi,

 

first of all apologies if this is in the wrong place.

 

I have a website for my band (that i've built some nice back end management tools for thanks to this forum), we are getting an increasing number of gigs for individuals and companies and we would like to be able to bill through the website.

 

My initial thoughts are: -

 

-Create a 'Your checkout.php' page that displays paypal button code for that user

-Email the customer their login password and tell them that their email address is their user name (maybe take them to a 'complete your details' page)

- they pay, redirect to a 'thanks.php'

 

I already have a secure login system that I currently use for band members (purely because there is no public content) that I can extend to customers.

 

This is my first idea on the subject, i'm just wondering if the above sounds sensible??

 

Is paypal a good facilitator to use??

 

[volatileboy]

Read up about Paypal IPN, this would be useful for what you require, there are also many pre-written classes that would help you.