We've been using the weblink/online payment facilities of F1 to sell Sunday message CDs, our Band EP, and a few bits and pieces, but it's obviously not designed for this as you have to select your name after login before selecting your item and paying for it - rather confusing for the new user I think!
We're now expanding to more merchandise/items that we want to sell through our website so are looking at a 'shop' - we want people to be able to select items, put in a virtual basket and go to a checkout - but it brings up lots of issues because
how would a shop work with F1?
Firstly, is anyone developing a shop as a bolt on to be compatible with F1? That would be amazingly incredible! If there's nothing like that now or to come in the nearish future, then the shop would have to be separate, but then you are surely ending up with two databases, people would have to have two logins – one for the shop and another for F1 features such as event registration? How would that ever work? It doesn't sound like a road I want to go down! Or at least is there some way of data exchanging the shop information into F1 if it's in a certain format? (Although the login issue still seems unavoidable - but PayPal is an option perhaps!?)
I've been searching on the web looking at what other churches are doing but can't find any real answers, so any ideas, help, suggestions, feedback concerning would be great!
Thanks!
Janet
www.lifechurchuk.org