Shopping Carts

Once you have the capability to accept money automatically, your site needs to present the services or goods to buyers in a familiar way. People are comfortable with the concept of using an online shopping cart. A good shopping cart will make the buy process easy for them.

What Businesses Use Them?

Things That Can Be Sold Online
Most successful businesses have borrowed an existing idea and improved it or re-applied it in a new way Don't re-invent the wheel. Most businesses making money on the net today fall under one of six categories.

• Products
• Services
• Information industries
• Internet
• careers
• Electronic publishing
• Electronic advertising

Getting Items Into the Store
Do you have pictures of all of your goods in, say, JPG or gif format? Do you have a catalogue of products that can be scanned? A lot of time can be spent optimizing the photos so good quality ready-sized photos will save on time and costs. Services can be sold online in a cart, just as goods are marketed. Of course they also need descriptions and representations of what they are.

Order Processing – Email, Fax & SMS
After an order has been placed on your store, you will want to know about it as soon as possible. The most popular method is by Email. As the order is processed, an Email is usually sent to the consumer confirming the order and another Email sent to the merchant to notify them of the order. The merchant then retrieves the order from a password-protected area on the Web site and the order is processed

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