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Friday, March 13, 2009

open source shopping cart brief

 

One of the most important problem for e-commerce merchants today is which shopping cart solution to choose for their web stores. There are number of shopping carts available in the market. A recent Google search on “online shopping cart” turned up 20 million hits, many of them offering shopping cart products of their own. So decision is very tough.

Open source shopping cart is good choice as : open source available at no cost . There was a time when many in the e-commerce world was not ready to use open source products. Some said they were difficult to install and configure, while others were not using it because of their lack of available features and technical support. Fortunately for online entrepreneurs on a budget, those days are all but gone.

The latest open source shopping carts offer pretty much everything you’d find in a proprietary solution, provided you have the basic technical expertise to install and configure them. Most have become much easier to install than previous offerings and include numerous developer contributions for increased features and customization. Technical support tends to come in the form of user forums and the are heavily trafficked and often get answers in a matter of minutes.

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