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General information regarding to shopping cart and type of shopping carts available.TRANSCRIPT
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 !