What Is A Shopping Cart Software

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

What is a shopping cart software?

E commerce is a website with a shopping cart software which enables users to select and purchase products online. And also allows vendors and manufacturers to display and sell their products online. For all this one needs a website, good hosting plan and shopping cart software or website with a pre-installed shopping cart.

You will have two options:

1) Renting a platform or become an affiliate:

In this you don’t need to setup an ecommerce website, you can rent a platform which contains everything one need to have for ecommerce business. for that readymade ecommerce you may need to pay monthly/yearly rental. Or else if You don’t want pay any fees and I don’t want to spend money, then, well you just have to sign up for an affiliate program, you just need to resell the products or services with your effort. By this, you will receive a Comission on every product you sell. You may receive Comission up to 20-40%. You will earn some money online. There are many such platforms available in the market like zencart.com, shopify.com etc.

We recommend you to go with the 2nd option i.e. setup your own ecommerce website. We don’t recommend you to find a job, We always suggest you to start an entrepreneurship and be the boss of your professional and personal life. So start your own ecommerce business, fallow the below.

2) Setup your own ecommerce website:

Ecommerce website is kind a different then traditional website, just visit any of ecommerce website and see, how they display and present their products or services. So, Right From the display of products, to till a buyer entertains a buying decision and to a payment option, everything needs to be fine and seem an easy flow.

When it comes to having an ecommerce website, You need a good Shopping Cart Software and a Payment gateway. Don’t be panic, one doesn’t need any coding or design skills and one don’t need to design anything too. There are numerous shopping cart softwares available in the market, you can choose the best one as per your budget, business plan and requirements. There are dozens of web hosting companies offer ecommerce software with different price range and some of the ecommerce web hosts offer pre-installed shopping cart software with their web hosting plans. you just have to subscribe to that particular hosting plan which suits best as per your business plan. Go through this article to know how to write a professional business plan for your startup business.

There are some companies provides commerce software for free on limited services like bandwidth, number of products to be displayed, limited shopping cart space and limited transactional features etc. if you want to access all the features of their shopping cart software then you may need to pay for subscription.

We recommend you to go with the full version by paying respective fees, because when its a business kind of thing then there should be no limits and restrictions, you have to fulfill all business demands and customer needs.

The shopping cart is the first important thing you need to setup and then you need to obtain the payment gateway for payment processing and need to get Security certificate SSL for secured online transactions.

Steps to setup your own ecommerce Business?

The below are the 4 main things one need to setup an eCommerce or shopping cart:

1) Have a Website with Good Domain Name:

The very first thing one needs to have is a website with good Domain name. You can choose any domain name, but Feedose recommends you to choose the name which suites and describes your website at best. This helps SEO to keep up your website at the top of search results. For example: If your domain name is something like ‘onlineshopping.com’, when people leaves a query for online shopping in the Google search engine, your website will be shown at the top or the search engine keeps your website at the top of search results. Because these related keywords are the most favorable for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Ranking of a website.

2) Hosting the website with a shopping cart software:

The next step is to do a list of your business requirements and do a thorough research of different shopping cart software’s which are available in the market, compare them and if their’s working demos available then do have a look at them also. choose the shopping cart software carefully, shopping cart software is the one which does everything right from presenting the products to till receiving the payments. Shopping cart handles everything right from the listing to pricing, offers to discounts, coupons to gifts, check in to checkout and shipping to support. We provided some of the best shopping cart software available in the market, at the end of this article.

when it comes to buying a shopping cart software, Everything depends on your requirements and budget, If you have enough budget then its better to buy one so that you will not have the tension of regular subscription payments. or else you can rent/subscribe. subscription charges will fall somewhere between $1o – $200.

3) Payment Gateway and shipping :

Payment gateways allows customers to pay online via credit/debit card or net banking, some offer payments via Paypal and some offer payments via both. Its better to opt both payment methods because when a customer wishes to pay via Paypal and if you don’t have that option then you may loose some business. So have both options.

The next thing is shipping the products, you have to deliver the products which people have ordered. Have a tie up with any courier service provider. Delivering the products on time is a very crucial task so take care of that.

Well, overall, to setup your own online shopping website you may need to spend some busks, somewhere around $200 – $450/year.

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