subject: How often do people use shopping carts on a website, and why would they? [print this page] Author: K James Author: K James
Shopping carts in ecommerce don't really mean a cart in which you put all the items you are about to take. In ecommerce, shopping cart is basically the name of software which enables you to take multiple products in one [payment from a website.
To elaborate on the above mentioned; ecart is software which is connected with numerous websites at a time. These website are all related to ecommerce that is that they are involved in buying and selling business. When a person wants to buy a certain commodity from here, he simply orders for it. But if he wants to buy more than one item than what should he do? Should he go for paying for all of them turn by turn? The solution to this problem is eshopping cart. This ecommerce shopping is software which provides you the benefit of shopping more than one item at a time.
Generally, people buying products from websites use this eshopping cart software. Basically, it is used when you are about to buy something more than one item. Besides providing you this facility of opting for more than one item, there are many other benefits from this software. Another great advantage you get from it easily accepts your payment whether of any mode that is credit cards, bank accounts or pay pal. This software is useful in this sense for both, for the customer as well as for the owner.
From this easy payment system the owner has the benefit. This software calculates the total amount at the end when the customer has finished selecting the items he wants to buy. After this calculation, this software immediately ask for the payment which is done by credit cards, pay pal and bank account or if any other. Once the information regarding this is given, it immediately encrypts the information so that it cannot be stolen. The payment is also done within seconds.
In the above explained paragraph, relating the process of shopping with an eshopping cart. It is obvious that this eshopping cart is beneficial for both, the owner as well as the customer.
Many a time, people not into ecommerce or not having ecommerce knowledge wonder how they could shop items with checks or cash and all, if they don't have credit card and other similar paying modes. What they can do is that fill their shopping cart with the items they want and then there is a button on that page only which says 'print' click on this button and get the receipt printed and then fax this receipt or by any other handy method send the payment to the company.
It is now clear that why people use shopping carts. Nevertheless, it can not be denied that these eshopping carts have made things easier for the customers to shop online.About the Author:
