Shopping Cart Solutions - Overview

What is a Shopping Cart?
You already know about the real world shopping cart. It's a basket on wheels that you push around the store. Sometimes you leave it in the isle while you shop around and then come back to it. Usually you identify your cart by observing items in the basket and where you last left it.  On the Internet, the process is more complex.

Internet shopping cart software is designed to track items that each user places in his/her "Virtual Cart." Those items can be anything you (the merchant) want to sell or give away for free. Unlike the "real world", there may be thousands of people shopping simultaneously on your site.  Furthermore, each shopper moves from one web page to another while selecting products. Just as in a real world store, shoppers want to check-out just once with everything they purchase. Therefore, a web shopping cart ensures that items belonging to one shopper are not confused with a different shopper even as they move from page to page within your site.

Significant differences between an internet shopping cart and the real world are that a shopper knows the total price of their purchases every time an item is placed in the shopping cart. Additionally, more sophisticated Internet shopping cart systems also automatically accept credit card payment, allow a merchant to track processing and shipment of the orders, and in some cases even deliver the products electronically if it is a software purchase that the customer wants to download for immediate use.

Okay, maybe we didn't tell you anything you didn't already know. Our point is that there are lots of shopping cart solutions. We have focused on providing two different options for our customers with different features and purposes.  Of course, we are happy to host your existing shopping cart systems, but if you don't have one already and want to set up one, then here is our solution:

We provide 3 free popular shopping carts for our Silver & Gold hosting plans.