Thursday, 31 July 2014

What All Do I Need To Run A Shopping Cart on My Own


This is one of the first questions that eat your mind when it comes to creating an online shop. Certainly, the growing demands in the emarket have lead to an increasing number of shopping cart solutions. But then, there is something that you should consider in first place. While running the shopping cart from your website, what all will you need to start with? Let’s have a glance.

5 Strategies to Run a Shopping Cart On Your Own Website



Domain name: Well, as anybody would know, this should be an obvious first part of the process.

Hosting account: This allows scripts to get executed and supports one or more databases. To include a few that runs with these basic configurations:



            ·         Linux web server with Apache  ·         Php/Perl script execution  ·         MySQL databases

A shopping cart system: Amidst the many ecommerce solutions, listed below are a few popular open-source shopping cart solutions:

Magento: Magento can run on basically any type of hosting or server as long as you have a minimum memory allotment of 256 MB and meet the requirements.

Zen-Cart:  A free shopping cart system that can be an asset to your company because of its feature rich interface.

OsCommerce: Similar to Zen Cart, Os Commerce is feature-rich open source software with a solid community of supporters that help with the creation of plugins and modules.

Payment processor: If you’re catering to an online audience, you need to have a way to accept digital payments, such as credit cards using payment gateways like PayPal, Charge.com, Authorize.net, and so on.

SSL – Encrypted website pages:  When you accept credit card payments on your website, ethically you are obliged to protect your customers’ financial information. Setting up encrypted pages of your website requires a bit of technical knowhow and hiring an ecommerce website development company requires attention.

As a bottom line, choosing the right setup for your business needs must be based on your technical capabilities. 

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