Is there a way to bring shoping to bbs land??

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Re: Shoping
By: HusTler to All on Sun Apr 25 2021 10:50 pm

Is there a way to bring shoping to bbs land??

Sure.

I invite you to purchase any of my digital books, for instance :-)

OK, my books are in an actual, website based, e-commerce. If you are asking whether we can push the whole sales engine into the BBS universe, that is hard, if only because that means pushing payment processing into the BBS universe as well.

I suppose you could pay via bitcoin and then have me send you the books or something of that sort.

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Is there a way to bring shoping to bbs land??

What would people be shopping for? Without instant images it may be hard to sell anything without being cumbersome to shopper.

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Re: Re: Shoping
By: Ogg to HusTler on Mon Apr 26 2021 11:52 am

Is there a way to bring shoping to bbs land??

What would people be shopping for? Without instant images it may be hard to sell anything without being cumbersome to shopper.

How about will send pictures via email upon request?

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Re: Re: Shoping
By: HusTler to Ogg on Tue Apr 27 2021 08:19 am

Re: Re: Shoping
By: Ogg to HusTler on Mon Apr 26 2021 11:52 am

Is there a way to bring shoping to bbs land??

What would people be shopping for? Without instant images it may be hard to sell anything without being cumbersome to shopper.

How about will send pictures via email upon request?

how about we just dont deal with other crazy bbs sysops
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On 4/25/2021 7:50 PM, HusTler wrote:

Is there a way to bring shoping to bbs land??

You *could* ... but short of HTTPS or SSH only, you're going to see
hurdles to anyone using your system.

For HTTPS it's pretty easy, easier if you use a 3rd party integration.
For SSH/BBS, then you'll need to write your own code to integrate with a payment processor, and read up on the storage/security requirements
(PCI). Even then, you may not get a payment processor that allows you
to complete transactions with remote clients over SSH.
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Re: Shoping
By: HusTler to All on Sun Apr 25 2021 10:50 pm

Is there a way to bring shoping to bbs land??

I've got a bridge I can sell you...

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