What would be necessary to make this complicated website?

[chris52082]

While I don't expect an in depth tutorial on the specifics, I would appreciate some general info and a point in the right direction for the following:It would, at it's base, be a social networking type of site. On top of that, though, a request could be made of the profile owner by another member (G-rated, minds out of the gutter), a payment amount agreed upon between both parties, and once request has been fulfilled and verified by both parties, the funds would be released to the profile owner. The basic development of the site isn't much of a concern, the bigger problem I'm having is figuring out how that payment system would work. Would it be best for all members to have access to Paypal, and just handle the payments between themselves, or have one master payment system under the oversight of the webmaster? Well, I know this was a bit of a ramble, but hopefully any reading this grasps what I'm driving at and can offer some advice. Thanks in advance.

[colanth3835]

It would require at least one designer and a few programmers - and a year or two to bring to completion.

[caseydotjpeg]

Can't help you to much with the payment part of the site but ning.com is a site that let's you create your own social network and whatever the network would be called the URL would be almost the same, for instance THISISTHENAMEOFTHENETWORK.ning.com

[zexdout]

I completely disagree with the first answer, it is a simple thing if you utilize PayPal. There is a developer section under your PayPal account, check it out. Total time to completion would be a couple of months maximum and possibly as short as two to four weeks if you base it off a generic code library and utilize that for the basis of the programming and then just wrote the proprietary code for the system to handle request specifically how you want.

[justJR9774]

Using PayPal is your easier (and cheapest!) solution: - You open an account with them (for the site)- Your clients can pay to Paypal using any welknown credit card, whether they have an account or not.- Only people who receive money will need to have an account with Paypal for them to receive the monies. (They can also transfer monies from their PayPal account to a bank of their choice, within 2-5 days only, and for a very reasonnable fee (which is not the case of bank transfers))- The integration of the PayPal code is pretty easy, and you can achieve it in a few minutes. (Call me at that stage, I'll give you guidance for integration).- One advice, however: do not use PayPal "basket" system or their sandbox for debugging. Make your transactions as a "one Item, one value". (PayPal Sandbox and basket are very complex... and do not work properly!)At the time of testing, fix the transaction value to 0.01: does not cost much to test with real money...- You can also use the services of a "merchant account" with a bank (i.e. WorldPay.com), but the set-up fee can be high (£1600 in the case of WorldPay!), and commissions are higher than PayPal.The workings:- Gather user information (whta they buy, NOT their CC details: you don't need them).- Set the final total price value.- Call PayPal (sending a form)- The client arrives at Paypal, pay the amount- On successful transaction, Paypal returns a POST to your site.- You deal with the post: money is in your PayPal account.- If you need to, you can also automate transfers from your paypal account to the third party account.