Hosted Shopping cart-what you need to know.

One of my friends asked me what is a hosted shopping cart. I told her shopping cart makes us to buy good online. What you see in Amazon, IRCTC are all different shopping carts but they may be built by their own software professionals whereas there are some sites that used ready built shopping carts.

For example, most of the affiliates that sell products or services and collect payment through Paypal use the shopping cart provided by Paypal/

Similarly, if we want to open our own online store, we can approach a shopping cart service provider to host a custom made shopping cart for which we can pay a monthly charge. We need not install the ecommerce software in our server.

Have I explained it clearly?

Want an affordable e-commerce shopping cart?

A brief encounter with an aspiring internet entrepreneur turned out to be a learning experience. My pride ate humble pie in the end. I thought I know everything about online credit card processing, how a new e-commerce merchant pays huge sum to get a shopping cart integrated in his website.

This knowledgeable person enlightened me that credit card processing online need not be an expensive expenditure. He showed me how he pays just 1% of the transaction amount as credit card processing fee.

I told him that I am aware of such low fees but …. He interrupted me by literally demonstrating how he set up a shopping cart with the help of a seven year old credit processing service provider. He told me that he was once using their retail credit card swiping machines in his florist shop and was quite impressed with their secured transactions.

I thanked the internet businessperson sincerely for giving me new insights on various aspects of a secured e-commerce shopping cart.