Shopping Cart

Shopping Cart

Web Technologies and E-Commerce

Sisuru Shamith KekiriwaragodageMSCIT/13/063

Agenda

• About Shopping Cart• Shopping Cart Process • Types of Shopping Carts• Shopping Cart Selection• Conclusion• References• Question

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About Shopping Cart

• A web based shopping cart is similar to the original grocery store shopping cart?

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About Shopping Cart

“ Graphic representation of a supermarket shopping cart on a vendor's website which serves to keep the list of items a user (buyer) has 'picked up' from the online store.”

• Foundation for any online store

• It’s Software.

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About Shopping Cart

Shopping Cart Elements-

• Website wizards• Merchant tools • Shopping features • Payment options • Shipping and Taxes configurations• Statistics and Security

*Get Some limited tracking details about customer.

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Shopping Cart Process

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Shopping Cart Process- Payments

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Type of Shopping Carts

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Type of Shopping Carts

• Licensed software -Free (open Source) -Purchased

• Hosted solutions

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Type of Shopping Carts-Further Divided

Based on e-commerce platforms

• Light add-on Carts• Hosted or SaaS Carts• Self-Hosted Open-Source or Licensed/Purchased Cart• Custom e-commerce shopping cart

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Type of Shopping Carts

Licensed Software • software that can be downloaded from a vendor and installed

on a Web server computer• one-time fee or completely free for a merchant to use

• Require Fee- Use enterprises that generate large monthly sales volumes, its comes with premium support and upgrades.

• Free- Available under an open-source that allows the personalized the software, cart normally run on any server platform. Notable disadvantage is the lack of official support.

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Type of Shopping Carts-Further Divided

Light Add-On Carts:

• Cart that integrates into your existing website or content management system (CMS), such as WordPress, joomla.

Benefits- Inexpensive- Effective solution for a limited amount of items- Requires less custom development

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Type of Shopping Carts-Further Divided

Drawback - Limited design features- Less customer service management features- Not easily personalized

Examples:Cart66ShoppPayPal Standard Buttons – Easiest of them allWoo Commerce

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Type of Shopping Carts-Further Divided

Hosted or SaaS Carts:

• Hosted carts typically provide more features for inventory management and customer service than an add-on cart.

• Start-up businesses with limited resources and less customized need.

• Suitable for business owners who lack technical computer experience.

• This a very cost-effective option.

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Type of Shopping Carts-Further Divided

Benefits- Low startup costs- Quick to setup- Available support- No software maintenance

Examples:3D CartBigcommerceChannelAdvisoreBay ProStores

Drawback - Limited design freedom on some solutions- Limited customization - Maintain cost (monthly hosting fee, service adding)

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Type of Shopping Carts-Further Divided

Self-Hosted Open-Source or Licensed/Purchased Cart:• Carts place on your own server or web hosting service• recommend for our custom website designs

Benefits- Design limitations are minimal- Custom data formatting- Custom product formatting- Custom checkout procedures

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Type of Shopping Carts-Further Divided

Drawback - High initial cost- Requires a hosting environment- Less strong support than a hosted cart- Self-service maintenance and potentially high upgrade costs

Examples:AspDotNetStoreFrontCS-CartMagentonopCommerce

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Shopping Cart Selection

“What are my goals for ecommerce?”

“What features do I need in my shopping cart?”

• Test trial versions or demo accounts and decide what is most suitable solution for use.

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Conclusion

• Shopping cart is a Foundation for any online store.

• Shopping cart have some key element.

• Get Some limited tracking details about customer.

• Available number of shopping cart solution with different flat forms.

• Users needed to decide most suitable solution for their business.

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References

• http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/shopping-cart.html

• http://shopping-cart-review.toptenreviews.com/what-is-a-shopping-article.html

• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/electronic_shopping_cart.html

• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/shopping_cart.html• http://topics.wisegeek.com/topics.htm?cart-software-

ecommerce#• http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-

ecommerce-cart.htm

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References

• http://topics.wisegeek.com/topics.htm?ecommerce-shopping-cart-software#

• http://topics.wisegeek.com/topics.htm?php-ecommerce-cart#• http://topics.wisegeek.com/topics.htm?ecommerce-shopping-

cart-hosting#• http://topics.wisegeek.com/topics.htm?ecommerce-shopping-c

art-solution#• http://visfire.com/what-type-of-e-commerce-shopping-cart-

should-you-choose• http://www.slideshare.net/umangp23/shopping-cart-types-

pros-and-cons-1530040821

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Questions?

Thank You !