Shopping Cart

[paid]

What are important features of a shopping cart solution to a store owner or webmaster. Are those same features important to a shopper as well?

Does this solution Click bridge the gap?

[John2004]

>What are important features of a shopping cart solution to a store >owner or webmaster. Are those same features important to a shopper >as well?

For shoppers:
- easy navigation
- payment using many methods
- easy shipment tracking
...

For owners
- easy catalog maintainability
- database reliability
- good reporting (how many sold, popular items, etc)
...

Regards,
John
ExtCart Shopping Cart Software

[tberthel]

Use a Free Open or Closed E-Commerce Solution with good customization support.

No E-Commerce Solution has all possible features (infinite).

E-Commerce Solutions with a whole bunch of features are expensive, bloated, slow, and over complicated.

Sincerely,

Travis
AllBinary E-Commerce Solutions

[ApplePie]

It's really interesting how people attempt to self-promote and get away with it.

Shoppers want several things, but there are three things that will always cost you a customer. Since all respondents, including myself, are developers of shopping cart software we each have our own opinions of what will help the shopper complete the sale and aid the site owner in the performance of their duties.

Shoppers do not buy based upon the ability to track a sale. Never happens that way. Shoppers buy based upon the ability of the site to capture their trust. There are some elements that will destroy the trust and there are some elements which will help build that trust.

Site owners want systems that empower them to take full control over their site. Regrettably, most shopping cart programs require programming knowledge of some sort. That's not good.

Business owners have many things to consider. Bells and whistles are secondary things.

[Cornulet]

I use OsCommerce as shopping cart. It's free, good looking and anyone can use it. It's easy to implement and because of the payment modules, integration of CC processing systems is a piece of cake. There are modules for payment, shipping and other services that a merchant might need. For example if you use paypal as payment option you just download the module and install it. The same is happening with ikobo.com or other services. Some of the payment services have their own shopping cart solution but you have to know a "programming knowledge of some sort" as ApplePie said so in my case this is not a solution.