Using ecommerce for developing online shopping cart

The shopping cart is an imperative item on the user’s profile and should be set up in a familiar way. It should have a textual message on each page to inform the visitor of how many items are in the cart. This is done to remind the visitor while browsing the site of the existence of the cart in this non physical world where the virtual cart is not as visible as a real shopping cart would be in the physical world.

Yes, a PHP shopping cart can allow the visitor on your website to perform many functional tasks such as adding to the cart, updating the cart when changes are made to the items in the cart and deleting unwanted items from the cart.

PHP shopping carts are flexible and fully functional. These can easily be integrated into any ecommerce website. You can look for one with custom template systems that will make the cart easy to set up with multiple payment gateways. When purchasing a PHP shopping cart make sure the in company you purchase the software from has free technical support, multiple currency support and offers multiple shipping configurations. You will obviously want total control over your shopping cart .Knowing how comfort in shopping makes all the difference in the online commerce scenario, you will want to have separate links from each product to the shopping cart which will allow the customer to easily add products to the cart.

One most important distinguishing factor is the customer centric shopping cart. Most electronic commerce websites are a combination of information and products for sale. There are many options available in the market such as the one my former colleague and online entrepreneur has been using for ages. She has been using Go Daddy’s Quick Shopping Cart. However she has been facing problems since it is separately hosted. And every time an upgrade is rolled out, she has to spend hours upgrading her end of the shopping cart to meet the new demands of the upgrade.

Fed up of this tiresome practice, she has been looking for a simple cart interface that can integrate smoothly with the product pages she already has created. She asked me, a tech freak, to suggest her something helpful. My discussions with programmers and software developers led me to some interesting options.

First, we took a look at the shopping cart product from the team at The Right Web Tools. I loved their solution because it's the only one I've seen that's full integrated with other online selling/marketing modules and as your website grows all you have to do is flip a switch for additional functionality. Plus it comes with a host of free design, hosting, etc.

I also suggested her if she might want to take a look into Monster Commerce, (now owned by Network Solutions) or1shoppingcart.com. I had been informed by my friend’s experience that 1shoppingcart's customer service leaves a lot to be desired and when they do upgrades, they change some feature sets without notifying their customers, however other people swear by them. You can certainly choose your pick depending on your specifications and of course, budget.