What to look for in Ecommerce Shopping Cart Services
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Shopping cart software is an operating system that can be used to allow people to purchase your items by selecting them from your menu for purchase, keeping track of your accounts, and tying together all of the aspects of your eCommerce site into one cohesive whole. It can be very simple, as in allowing for the purchase of just one item; or very complicated, allowing for the purchase of several items, each by size, color, or similar criteria. As noted previously, a shopping cart is one of the five necessary components of an ecommerce enabled website along with:
Make sure the shopping cart services you select are (SSL) Secure Socket Layer Certified – which is used to encrypt and protect data on an order from an online merchant’s website. Once the order has reached its destination, the encrypted data is decoded. Merchant account providers will require your shopping card service to be SSL certified before approving your merchant account application. -
Other important and desirable attributes of a good Shopping Cart system are: - Automatic site map generation
- Customer order management, including the ability to email customers, and shipment tracking capability
- Cross selling of similar products capability
- Special features such as VIP Clubs, quantity discounts, gift cards, etc.
- Inventory tracking capability to avoid out-of-stock problems
- The ability to list detailed product features
- An affiliate module
- Easy editing of orders to correct customer ordering errors
- Easy order search capability by phone number, zip code, etc.
- A customer note section
- Statistical reporting capability, including sales reports, product breakdowns, shipping reports, affiliate sales, most popular sales and most popular customers reports, etc.
Following are links to highly recommended Ecommerce Shopping Carts
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X-Cart Software
LiteCommerce Online Store Builder
Sales 'n Stats Software
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