Website Shopping Carts De-mystified

When you have a product to sell you want to get it in the hands of as many people as possible. Having a shopping cart on your website can help you to do just that. However you may be wondering what is the best shopping cart to use, what are the caveats of using a particular cart as opposed to another. You may also want to know which shopping cart will make the experience a pleasant one for your customers. We’ve compiled a list of the various shopping carts that can help you with your decision making.

Zen Cart: This cart is very popular and in our opinion GREAT! This free cart is very extensive and is highly recommended for anyone who wants professionalism at NO COST! This shopping cart has come great features such as coupons and gift certificate options, a built-in newsletter program, and is very easy to use. Just contact us at www.diva-designz.net and we will be glad to help you with this cart. If you host your website with us, we can install it with one click. You’ll only need to install the security updates; which are sent in a timely manner, by the Zen Cart developers.

Yahoo Stores: These carts are well known also and basically have templates that you can use. The shopping carts from Yahoo are very user friendly. Yahoo does the processing for you and it’s very easy to maintain this shopping cart. This shopping cart is not free however. There will be a 2% transaction fee on all of your sold products. Yahoo will not allow you to copy your site if you go with this cart. They will own your website creations. We find that this is not always the most desirable option.

Mals-e: Let’s say you have a bit of knowledge regarding HTML or know someone who does. If this is the case, using Mals-e as your shopping cart. Mals-e will process your orders for your. You can set up an account to use this shopping cart; FREE of charge. You do need a basic knowledge of HTML to configure this shopping cart because you will have to create and copy the codes to your website.

If you’ve been on the internet to shop for yourself, you’ve probably heard of Pay Pal. Their shopping cart is so user friendly you can truly install this one on your own! You can do the copy and pasting yourself; after getting set up with a Pay Pal account. The caveat with this is the fact that it’s a manual shopping cart. So you have to keep on your toes and delete products that are not in stock any longer. You also won’t have the nice little options that come with other shopping carts. For instance there are no coupons or sales markers and their Virtual Terminal is not the best. It also costs a pretty penny.

Well there you have it. The choice is yours and there are many more carts that you can research. Many are free while others cost a lot of money for the extra features they may offer. We can help you in designing a portion of your website with your cart such that your customers find that it’s a pleasure to shop with you.

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