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.
