Shopping Cart Solutions

In a brick-and-mortar store, a shopping cart is one small part of a much bigger system that enables you to make purchases. For online stores, a shopping cart is the whole system. In other words, a shopping cart is software that facilitates online purchases.

A more descriptive term for shopping carts would be shopping cart software or shopping cart platform. However, the term shopping cart is now widely used to refer to any software that enables a retailer to display products online, manage their online store, and sell to customers. So, every online store you use to make purchases uses shopping cart software. This includes everything from a small business selling one or two products, to a business with thousands of products in its catalog.

Shopping cart software combines standalone applications and embedded commerce services that streamline web buyers' experience and make it possible to select and reserve items for purchase before moving to check out. It has become an indispensable tool in this age of the Internet, when online shopping has become a preferred method of acquiring goods and services. Both vendors and buyers depend on such services to close successful deals.