There is a big choice of shopping carts all over the internet and sometimes it's rather difficult to choose the one.
In this article we will guide you how to choose a shopping cart.
One of the main features of any shopping cart is user-friendly interface for the shoppers. They should not guess how they can add products to the cart and purchase them.
People do not like filling the forms. Your shopping cart should not require the shoppers to be registered.
The other important thing is the shoppers should like the design of your shopping cart. It will be a big plus if the shopping cart is based on templates.
If you follow the simple rules above you can increase your sales.
Free shopping carts. Some people like free shopping carts others don't. Some developers of free shopping carts pay less attention to the security.
As a result a free shopping cart can have security problems.
The most popular free shopping carts are:
osCommerce http://www.oscommerce.com
Zen Cart http://www.zen-cart.com
Those shopping carts are rather powerful but from the other hand sometimes it's difficult to set them up.
Commercial shopping carts. They are more professional as a rule. The developers are more interested in developing them.
One of the commercial shopping carts is 1st ProCommerce (http://www.1procommerce.com). You can sell digital downloads and merchandise using this shopping cart.
More expencive commercial shopping carts are Cart32 (http://www.cart32.com) and ProStores (http://www.prostores.com).
P.S. This is my own opinion. If you have anything to add you can reply to this post.
