Ecommerce shopping cart hosting is a service offered by web hosts to merchants. It allows customers to collect products and initiate transactions. There are two types of shopping carts: open source and ecommerce hosting. Hosts may offer different tiers or choices of carts with associated fees. Shopping carts require specific requirements and should be planned as part of the larger web design.
E-commerce refers to the online business that is run by a merchant, sometimes known as a merchant or etailer. Ecommerce hosting is the term for web hosts that specialize in serving merchants, and ecommerce shopping cart hosting is a particular service offered by such hosts to merchants.
Ecommerce shopping cart hosting allows a visitor to an ecommerce site to collect a selection of products over a period of time. The goods could be services, digital downloads or goods that the merchant will or has sent to the customer. The customer can add items to the cart, remove items from the cart, and present the cart for checkout when they are ready to initiate a transaction to pay for the items.
There are two main types of shopping carts used in e-commerce. One type is open source shopping carts that are programmed to meet the needs of particular merchants and added to an e-commerce site. Ecommerce shopping cart hosting is the other alternative. These carts are complete and ready to go, but they don’t have the customization potential of open source carts.
Ecommerce shopping cart hosting can have different tiers or different choices of particular carts that you can use. For example, a host may have several levels of carts, each with a limitation on the number of products in the catalog served by the cart. Alternatively, a host can provide several shopping cart choices for you to choose from.
Shopping carts can be included as part of a larger ecommerce plan, along with other features and applications. They can also be presented as an add-on with an associated fee. Shopping carts don’t work without an associated website.
Shopping carts can have very specific requirements to function. These may include server software, PERL availability, and modules that need to be installed. Hosts may charge an installation and/or configuration fee as well as a monthly fee. Due to their restrictions and possible costs, it is usually in a merchant’s best interest to plan the shopping cart as part of the larger web design matter of making sure that the website, hosting and cart complement each other seamlessly and that there are no surprise charges.
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