Saturday, April 28, 2007

E-commerce means an Online Shopping Cart

To add e-commerce capability to your website you will add an online shopping cart to your website. Putting a shopping cart on the your website will allow you to accept credit cards online. The easiest way to have the shopping cart available in your website is to purchase a website template that already has the shopping cart built into it. You can get a very nice one online in the price range of $ 150 to $ 250. This may seem that the website template that you purchase is a little expensive, but the extra expense is well worth it, if the cart is already integrated with the website template. There are a lot of templates available in the price range of $15 to $50, but these don't usually have an integrated shopping cart. If you purchase a web template that does not have a cart with it, don't worry; there are lots of carts that can be easily integrated into an existing web template.

There are many variations of shopping carts available in many different price ranges. You will want to select the shopping cart for your website that best suits the products that you are selling. If you are selling only one or two products, you should be able to find a free shopping cart. There are other shopping carts that are better suited to online stores that have many categories of products to sell. These carts allow you to categorize your products into groups so that customers can easily locate items that they want to purchase. The most important part of the shopping cart is its ability to allow customers to pay for the products that you have for sale, right through the shopping cart. You should have a shopping cart that will allow customers to purchase your products with credit card. When you think about it, the only reason you have an online shopping cart is the accpet credit cards from customers. Credit card transactions are extremely secure through the website. And you should make credit card payments available to customers so they can pay throught the website. It will be necessary for you to have a merchant account with the correct discount rate to be able to take credit card payments through your website. You can find companies that sell shopping carts in Provision, Inc.'s Resource web pageson this website.

You will have to have a payment portal, like Authorize.net, installed in your website so that customers can use their credit cards for payment. It is easy to get the portal, you will pay a one-time license fee for the portal, then you will have to pay a monthly gateway access fee to use the portal. Provision, Inc can help you get the portal for your website. Please visit our website for more information.

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