How to choose the shopping cart

And there is also an option which is to sell through your website and for that you need shopping cart.  Let us look at few e commerce shopping carts which would help us to sell the products through own website.

Simple carts

If you just have only few products to sell online, than you just have few available options. One you can use the sites like half.com, eBay as they already have their brand design and online presence. The other available option is the payment processing capabilities. For example: PayPal, Google check out. These carts work quite well if you have an existing Ecommerce website design.  They would let to use their website to organize your products, while generating the payment button code which you can paste and copy into the web pages. This code generates the button in your web page which is when clicked takes the visitor in the service of payment.

PayPal

It is an online process of payment which is owned by eBay. Before using PayPal you need to register the account. You need to set up the PayPal account than connecting the bank account with the PayPal account. To create the product within the PayPal account, you need to select the services and products tab on the main account page, than the website link on the services and products page. This would help you to buy the buttons page. You can select the mode of payment button than you can easily follow few directions. It is quite an easier process for creating an email or button link to the product you sell.

Google check out

Google has also introduced its services of online payment. To start using google check out, one needs the google account. The process is more or less similar to PayPal. Also Google Checkout may be used as the payment processor, in the shopping carts which you yourself host. When it is used as a payment processor in the complete feature shopping cart, buyers can easily store their details of payments with Google and they do not need to enter the data in your website.

Custom developed carts

Apart from the regular carts, there are also custom developed shopping carts. They are created either by the programmer who sells the cart to the client or they are based on the existing carts. You should carefully analyze and research your requirements.