Chapter 7. Checking Out Products and Accepting Payment

Shopping carts and checkouts are the most important feature of an e-commerce website. In this chapter, we are going to integrate a shopping cart, and allow users to checkout their products.

Furthermore, we will go through the process of accepting payments securely. We are going to explain how PayPal works and how it can be integrated for accepting payments.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Setting up the shopping cart
  • Creating an order
  • Checking out products

Setting up the shopping cart

One of the main advantages of developing on open source technology is that we don't have to reinvent the wheel with every feature. We first look if there's any module that already does what we ...

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