Android Question ECommerce mobile & web app

[luke2012]

hi All,
I have a doubt in order to choose wich is the best approach to build an app that should support:

1) vendors users that Put their products
2) customers users that can browse products from mobile app and web site (like amazon)
3) It should support digital payments (paypal, credit cards etc)
3.1) Digital payments must managed in a secure way (ex. the customers credit cards cannot be stored within the b4j server db but should be managed by a "gateway" payment provider)
4) The Application must support shipment tracking status

Which is the best approach in terms of development effort to build the above project ?

1) Start from a web platform (ex cms) that support eCommerce PLUGINs to build the eCommerce and than develop a b4x mobile cross platform app using a web view that point to the eCommerce platform?

2) Build All eCommerce within a custom b4j server with native cross platform Apps and implement All the payment gateways (and shipment) tracking within the b4x platform ?

Thanks in advance for your suggestion

 

[Erel]

Assuming that you don't find an existing package that meets your requirements, it shouldn't be too difficult to implement this with B4J and optionally with native apps.

Most payment processors support credit cards and PayPal so you only need to deal with a single processor (at least start with a single one).

The payment should be done directly to the payment processor and then the payment processor will send a notification to your B4J server.