subject: Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software A Main Requirement For Commercial Website [print this page] Many websites which function as a commercial website usually has shopping carts software in it. This shopping cart software is also called Ecommerce shopping cart software. Ecommerce shopping cart software helps people to select items and products on the website and calculates the total amount of the transactions made. No ecommerce website can function without this software because if your website will not have this option, then it will be impossible for people to buy products online.
Ecommerce shopping cart software is basically of 2 types. One is free shopping cart software, which you can install on your website provided that your website contains hosting. The advantage of free shopping cart software is that you can install and manage it on your own. All the transactions and updates will be totally under your control and supervision. But the disadvantages are that you will have to install the software on your server, and for that you will be needing technical staff to manage and supervise your software, secondly you will not have any new upgrades for the software, which is very important because whenever upgrades are available for a software, then new features and options are available for it.
You will also have to provide extra security to your software because you want to keep the information of your clients very confidential and prevent from getting it misused. You will need to hire extra staff to control and manage your shopping cart software and also upload it on your server. You might want to go with the free shopping cart software but to manage it is a lot of hassle, if you can manage extra technical staff to manage your software and install it on your server, and secondly if you have a huge clientele then you should have your own free shopping cart software and make an extra department which controls the transactions and orders from your website.
Another type is the hosted shopping cart software; this service is usually provided by companies which renders services on monthly or annual fee basis. Many people opt for hosted shopping cart software because they just concentrate on their business and let such shopping cart providers manage the transactions and orders made on the website themselves. Other main advantages of hosted shopping cart software is that you do not need to install the software on your server, it will be managed and updated on regular basis by the shopping cart provider, they will also add new options and features whenever the upgrade for the software is available. Then the security of the information of customers is very important, they provide special security softwares that nobody can misuse the information of customers if any problem to the software occurs then you will not have to worry about it, the shopping cart provider has the technical training and staff to manage such problems and deal with customer support as well without paying them extra money.
