Shopping Carts and Ecommerce Web Hosting

Shopping carts

Shopping carts or baskets allow customers to select products that they wish to buy before they are ready to check out and pay. This allows them to store the items they are buying while they continue shopping. Shopping carts are CGI programs. This means that they are dynamic programs that allow visitors to interact with the website by sending a request script to the server, which then runs the requested program. In this case, the customer requests that the program remember their selections while they shop. Once the customer purchases the items in the shopping cart, the shopping cart is empty again.

Ecommerce web hosting

To run an ecommerce website, you will need a shopping cart program and a way to accept payments over the Internet, usually with credit cards or PayPal, though some sites also this article has all rights reserved and is copyright by 100 Best accept electronic checks. These features are available through or supported by many web hosts as part of special packages geared toward ecommerce websites. Many of the web hosting services listed on our site offer plans that support ecommerce.