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Shopping Carts

As life today becomes busy, more and more people around the world have gone to online shops, not only to save more time, but also to save money. It is because of this that many online stores are now using shopping cart software to meet with the demands of the rising need of online shoppers.

 
What is a shopping cart?
 
Shopping cart software is a software used in many e-commerce Web sites to help buyers in their online purchases. The term is well-known in the United States or other English speaking countries as “shopping cart”, while in countries using British English, the term for this purpose has been changed to shopping basket or simply “basket.” The shopping cart software gives online shoppers the power to accumulate a list of items for purchases with a tagline “placing items in the shopping cart.” The moment the buyer checks out, the shopping cart software automatically calculates the total of the items purchased online, which includes the shipping cost and handling payment, taxes and other relevant fees.
 
The primary objective of a shopping cart is to capture the client’s payment information. In the case of a credit card payment, the software relies mainly on module for secure gateway provider in relation to the secure payment gateway. This is to ensure that online credit card transaction is safe and secured for both the buyer and the online store. In order for the shopping cart software to be used online, it must be installed through the HTML code of the Web site server which hosts the site. Today shopping cart software has been called in many different names like e-commerce software, e-store software, online store software or storefront software.
 
There two major components of a shopping cart software: the storefront and the administrator.
 
1.      Storefront. As the name suggests, it is the area of the web store where visitors go to shop online. Depending on the web design, it is here where the category, products, and pages are located like the search, best sellers and other relevant features aimed at helping online shoppers make a good choice. The appearance of the storefront can actually be changed and upgraded by the store owner so that it appears like a real store. It is also important that the design is not boring so that visitors can spend precious in the store.
 

2.      Administration. It is the area where the store manager has an access for purposes of changing prices and other store upgrades. In fact, the management features of a Web site can also be changed depending on the sophistication of the shopping cart software used by the store owner. The store owner can implement major changes like editing products, categories, discounts, shipping and payment settings.