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Using a Shopping Cart to Process your Orders
If your website offers more than a few products or services, then a shopping cart system is the ideal way to process your credit card orders. This will allow your customers to add and remove products to their basket as they browse through your store. They simply check out once they are finished shopping and ready to place their order.
There are many shopping cart systems available, so it is important to research and compare their features. If you are using an internet gateway, make sure that software is compatible with real time processing. If you have no programming knowledge, you should first find out if programming skills are required to set up the shopping cart system. There are many other features to look into such as supporting multiple currencies, calculating sales tax, product limitations, etc.
Shopping carts are available as standalone software or as part of hosted storefronts. Several web hosting providers offer free shopping carts with their services.
Here is a list of our top three recommended web hosting companies that include shopping cart software with their services:
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midPhase Hosting
– Hosting packages include osCommerce and Agora Shopping Cart software. Merchant accounts are supported.
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LunarPages
– Their premium account packages have access to Agora and Interchange shopping carts.
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StartLogic
– Hosting packages include Agora, osCommerce, and PayPal shopping carts. No merchant account is required to use the PayPal shopping cart.
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