Shopping Carts and Merchant Accounts

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Why Be a Cyber Merchant ?
Current statistics show that the total turnover of transactions through e-Commerce in the year 2003 will rise to whopping $3 trillion. To take technological edge over competitors, Businesses are adopting e-Commerce very rapidly and with open mind.

What are shopping carts and ecommerce web hosting?
A shopping cart is a CGI scripted program that allows web site visitors to interact with the web site. Just like at the grocery store, online shopping carts allow visitors to collect the items that they want to buy in their "shopping cart" or "basket" until they are ready to “check-out." Shopping cart software makes it possible for the computer to remember what items the visitor would like to buy as they click between pages of your site.

Ecommerce web hosting differs from regular web hosting because it is geared to webmasters who not only intend to build a web site, but also plan to sell products from their site. Ecommerce web hosting packages contain features not offered by other web hosts, needed for selling products online such as: merchant accounts, online credit card processing, shopping carts, product catalogs, customer databases, web-based product management, shipping helps, etc.

Do I need a shopping cart or ecommerce web hosting?<
If you are considering selling merchandise on your site you should definitely find a host that is compatible with shopping carts. Sometimes setting up a shopping cart with a host that doesn’t already provide one can get tricky. We recommend going with a host who includes a shopping cart in the web hosting package.