Virtual Shopping cart software

Taking orders for multiple products on your website is made possible by the virtual shopping cart software. The software is designed to automatically calculate and total your customers’ orders. In other words, it is a vehicle that acquires the order details of your customers, make email verification to customers confirming that the order has been made, deliver notification and order details to the seller.

In case you have several products for ordering online, virtual shopping cart software offers dynamic hypertext markup language (DHTML) templates to display your products. Many of its applications enable you to manage inventory levels, fix tax and shipping rates, and a host of management and design functions.

Costs for virtual shopping cart software can vary. Certain ISPs may offer it free or as a value added cost. It can also be purchased directly from Able Commerce which can cost you as much as $795.00 per store.

Privacy protection for customers being high priority, virtual shopping cart softwares use browser cookies to identify visitors to the site. The cookie stores information that separates the customers from other visitors to the site. This being the only purpose of the cookies, they are programmed to expire and be erased after a few hours. In case any of your customers does not use a browser with cookies function, or does not support, the necessary software is provided to them for identification purpose.

Of late e-commerce solutions are increasingly being offered through Internet Service Providers or ISPs. Keep in mind that most server side virtual shopping carts are just server side. To change ISPs, you will have to recreate your store. In case you are not among those offering multiple products, you can make do with just a simple HTML page written as an https page.