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[josh1r]

Hi. I was wondering what your thoughts are (I already have a feeling what the answers will be...) on having a shopping cart URL be a different URL than my site.

Here is my site: [http://www.siteA.com/]

and you can see that when you add anything to the cart the URL changes to something like: [http://siteB.com/gen...tion=a4&qid=..]

This is done b/c the catalog is pulled from the manufacturers store and certain items are framed (or use javascript or something, not really certain), but they were not able to frame the cart I guess b/c of security/SSL reasons.

I know that I personally will be quite wary when checking out and suddenly i'm on a different site, especially when there's not even a logo of the original site...

Thanks for your thoughts.

-- Josh

Edited by Jill, 14 November 2005 - 06:47 PM.

[Randy]

Lots of sites do the URL change thing to check out Josh.

I don't personally consider it to be a major problem. It shouldn't be if you've already built trust with your customer. On the other hand, it might be nice to put something in there that lets them know that they're now headed off to your Secure site to protect their personal information.