The advent of e-commerce has certainly revolutionized the way the world shops. Until a few years ago, the thought of buying and selling goods “from a computer” was a far fetched sci-fi idea. But Information Technology has made it happen. The entire concept of a business website was to essentially
sell something. Initially it was selling the brand which could have brought prospective customer’s to the site owner’s
shop (business); Now, the businesses have established their shops on the web as well! Whatever you need to buy and sell is now available on the internet… and its just a click away from you!
An Online shopping cart is a software which enables a vendor to sell their products and interested customers to purchase them. It typically has a series of products having various prices and related tax and shipping information. Most of the commerce is done virtually but the physical item often needs to be shipped, for which there are extra charges. I’m afraid today’s Information Technology hasn’t advanced to a stage where one can just download a music system or a juicer from the internet 
Hosted v/s Licensed Shopping Carts
Essentially, there are two ways in which a retailer (also called e-tailer) may choose to have a shopping cart running on his website:
- Get a licensed Shopping Cart: This type of shopping cart can be typically downloaded. The owner of the license (who is usually retailer himself) can just host it on his server. This type of shopping cart typically has more initial investment but also promises long term benefits. The licenses are usually a one time investment and the retailer often has access to the source code which can be modified to suit his needs.
- Get a hosted Shopping Cart:This type of shopping cart is typically provided by an Application Service Provider (ASP) at a certain periodic fee (monthly, half yearly or annual). The retailer does not have access to any code in a system. It has a limited set of features and you cannot get any additional features except those which you have signed up for. A likely merit of such a hosted shopping cart is that these are regularly updated at very nominal prices and have a low initial investment.
Another advantage of Online shopping carts is the easy payment and checkout options provided with them (for example: PayPal, Google Checkout). These payment gateways make the most crucial task of online financial transaction very secured and convenient.
Two Birdies in One Shot
With our primary motive of facilitating business success on the web, we have been striving to help small, medium and large businesses with our bouquet of tools and application services. Our Shopping Cart is a perfect solution for both small and big companies looking for shopping carts for their webshops. Our hosted shopping cart gives you the advantages of licensed shopping cart as well! So, now you can have your desirable features developed by us at a very low initial investment! This certainly ensures high RoI. We will also seamlessly integrate the shopping cart in your website so that it looks very much like a part of your website. Do have a look at few of these shopping carts which we have created:
Entering the Flash Arena of Shopping Carts
For those who value visual trickery, we are also working on a state of the art flash based shopping cart having excellent usability aspects. Since the product is still in our labs, we’re not divulging too many details right now, but we certainly welcome you to have a
sneak peek.
In the meantime, go ahead and check out a few key features of our shopping cart solution here. If you have any suggestions, we would like to hear them as well. Do drop in your comments for this post. If you liked this and other posts on Blogoxy, subscribe to our feed now!
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