| Unless you really want to get into playing around with php code and writing addons yourself, and if this is just a one off, i.e. you don't intend to do this sort of thing often, then I'd suggest you buy a package and just worry about designing a template for it.
There are many to choose from but a major factor will be, which payment gateway and will he want to take telphone orders using credit card. Next you should consider how the transactions will get to his accounts package cos if he has 500 products he's going to need one. Now you will start to see that there is a lot more to this than just installing a freebie with a new template. I hope you are ready for all that. That is why a package which has all the interfaces to common accounts packages such as sage or quickbooks will be a simpler option in the long run.
And if its done well, the transacations can update the accounts package directly so its real time and if the accounts package also has stock on it, then he can do stock updates from his local machine without having to go through a web interface.
You need to research all of that and whether the packages are best suited to the UK market and software assuming the UK is the target market.
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