Ecommerce - How to Select a Shopping Cart

A Shopping Cart is a "program" that allows you to implement your own on-line storefront. The shopping cart keeps track of what visitors have ordered and allows them to add or remove items from a 'virtual shopping cart'. When a visitor decides to check-out, the order information including the buyer's name, address and billing instruction is e-mailed to or held for the site webmaster and a receipt is sent to the shopper.

Most shopping cart programs reside on the webhost's servers and require no additional software on the webmaster's computer. When selecting a shopping cart program, it is important to select one that is compatible with your selected webhost.

Here are a few of our choices for shopping carts:

X-Cart is a PHP4+MySQL-based secure shopping cart software with support for PHP Smarty Templates. X-Cart provides sales and support for their product and is an excellent choice for customers looking for stronger support than might be obtained from an open source alternative. More information about X-Cart is available at http://www.x-cart.com.

Comersus is an active server pages software for running a professional store, seamlessly integrated with the rest of your Web site. Comersus can use Access, SQL Server and mySQL databases and is compatible with Real Time systems of Shipping companies like Fedex, DHL, UPS and USPS. Mor information is available about Comersus at the developer's website at http://www.comersus.com.

AlphaOmegaHosting.Com is able support and install any of the above ecommerce applications. If you have questions regarding our services, please feel free to visit our Pre-Sales FAQ