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The shopping cart on websites is the bridge between the customer and merchant, helping of displaying the product, making sure that the buyer goes through a captcha system, incorporates SSL, affiliates with a payment gateway, and sets up a system of the merchant for them to receive the payment.
There are numerous different shopping carts to add to a website and each over different levels of information to the merchant in order to analyze sales, customer tendencies, consumer traffic, inventory, etc.
Here is a review of 3 shopping carts for the online domain:
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2617-shopping-cart-software.html
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There are also entire software solutions for creating e-commerce based websites:
Magento: http://eu.thenorthface.com/tnf-eu-en/
Lets see what some of the capabilities for business are in a software like this:
Zen Cart: http://www.sleepwear.com.au/
OsCommerce: http://shops.oscommerce.com/directory/goto,44399
Here is listing of others: http://shopping-cart-software.findthebest.com/
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With the usage of a shopping cart plugin, the very platform that your store is built on, we can also add a shopping cart. We use WordPress!!
This company thought it was a good enough platform: http://electronicsblog.sel.sony.com/
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In order to do this we will use a WordPress Plugin called: Ecwid Shopping Cart.
Afterwards we will login online to the Ecwid Shopping cart store: https://my.ecwid.com/
admin: hoffman@caspercollege.edu password: Thunder12
In the store we can upload products and manage sales!!
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After we have established our products and categories… we can take the block of embed code that they give us and import anywhere we want on our site – Look for the tab that says “HTML Code”. Copy and Paste that code in the html tab that you want to use… or you can also place it as a widget on your page!!
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