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Shopping Cart Software
Solutions to close, process and track your online sales.

21 Places to Sell Your Products Online
[August 24, 2011] Not ready to launch your own full-fledged ecommerce website? Try these hosted alternative ecommerce services for small or individual online sellers.

Ecommerce Conversion, Email and Other Marketing Words to Know
[June 29, 2011] Our Ecommerce Dictionary provides insight to common conversion, email remarketing and social media marketing words and phrases.

Shopping Carts for EBay Sellers
[June 8, 2011] We look at eight shopping carts and software services to integrate your eBay business with your own Web shop sales.

6 Free Open Source Shopping Cart Software Options
[May 4, 2011] Why pay for shopping cart software when you can get it for free? Open Source shopping carts are economical, highly customizable, updated frequently and backed by thriving support communities.

5 Easy Hosted Shopping Carts for Entrepreneurs
[March 2, 2011] Looking to start a new small business ecommerce website? Hosted shopping carts make it easy for entrepreneurs and small businesses to get started with online selling.

Cart Abandonment Explained and 4 Tips to Prevent It
[November 17, 2010] After you determine why customers abandon carts on your site you can adjust your cart page to maximize transactions. We get you started with four tips to lower cart abandonment rates.

Review: 3DCart Offers Social Media Integration
[September 13, 2010] In this review we look at how easy it can be for a small business or entrepreneur to set up an online store using 3DCart, a hosted ecommerce software platform.

Building an Online Store with CoreCommerce
[May 13, 2010] In this review we look at how to use CoreCommerce, an all-in-one online hosted ecommerce platform to build an online store that offers mobile and social commerce options.

CoreCommerce Adds Free Mobile Shops to Platform
[March 17, 2010] The popular storefront e-commerce platform offers free mobile-optimized Web shops in its newest version, CoreCommerce 7.7.

Buyers' Guide: Choosing a Payment Gateway Provider
[March 9, 2010] From chargeback fees to PCI-compliance issues, this ecommerce buyers' guide will tell you everything you need to know to select a payment gateway service provider.

Buyers' Guide: How to Find a Web Hosting Provider
[February 16, 2010] From server features to disk space and data transfer, this guide will tell you what you need to know and to consider when shopping for a hosting provider for your small business Web site.

An E-Comm Buyers’ Guide to Choosing Trustmarks
[January 25, 2010] This guide covers what you need to know about e-commerce trustmarks and what to consider before displaying badges from trustmark service providers on your business Web site.

Choosing an E-commerce Shopping Cart
[January 11, 2010] Plus, marketing expert Andrew Lock looks at planning for seasonal trends, tracking your goals and a habit-forming resource.

Open Source E-Commerce: Winners and Losers in 2009
[December 29, 2009] Kerry Watson takes a look at the range of open source e-commerce shopping carts and how they stack up in terms of popularity.

Why Do Customers Leave? Get Answers with Feedback Analytics
[December 10, 2009] Kampyle’s feedback-analytics service helps e-tailers find out why customers abandon carts and leave their Web site.

A Look at Affordable, Web Design Templates
[November 30, 2009] Kerry Watson talks with David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster.com, about how the world’s largest provider of open-source Web templates got its start and what it has planned with VirtueMart, Microsoft Silverlight.

Solve Cart Abandonment Issues by Black Friday
[October 26, 2009] SeeWhy’s new ‘Live-in-Five’ program offers small and mid-sized merchants accelerated services to re-market and recapture customers who abandon carts just in time for the online selling season.

osCommerce Trademark War Leads to Uneasy Settlement
[October 6, 2009] The New osCommerce Project changes its name to osQuantum.com and agrees to surrender its trademark despite lack of signed legal agreement.

CS-Cart: The Next Wave of Shopping Carts
[September 24, 2009] CS-Cart lacks the popularity of the established solutions like osCommerce, Zen Cart and X-Cart, but is a hot contender to be the next big product.

Seller Tools: EBay Compatible Shopping Carts
[September 16, 2009] If you sell on your own site in addition to eBay, eBay-compatible carts let you track and manage your orders from one location, regardless of where the sale takes place.

Ecommerce Primer: What You Need to Set Up Shop Online
[August 31, 2009] From registering a domain name to making sure your retail site is secure, we cover the basic fundamentals that lay the foundation for building a retail shop online.

Trademark Granted to New OsCommerce Project in U.K.
[August 18, 2009] The ruling gives the new group the right to license and enforce usage in U.K. and to register the trademark worldwide.

Save the Sale with New PayPal Tools and Data
[July 9, 2009] Following a survey that indicates why most shoppers abandon their carts, PayPal offers a new tool that shows shipping options, insurance choices and tax totals earlier in the check-out process.

UpClick Simplifies Selling Digital Goods
[July 6, 2009] A unique solution designed for people who sell digital goods online, Upclick helps minimize costs and maximize revenue.