Choosing a shopping cart is one of the most important steps in creating the webstore - actually all the rest is done on this basis - so you should make sure you're making the right choice.
Then the next point - if it's so important to make this choice why isn't it written in this article which web store is the best? Simply because there are so many of them today and each one has something special so that it can stand out with it. Your business is not just the same as million other businesses so you would certainly need to find a shopping cart that would pass to you better than any other.
Well, sure there are some common demands, like you know, there are even the "lists of basic questions to developers" on the web. E.g. the software should be easy to set up especially for those who are no coders, just normal people knowing nothing of PHP, ASP.NET shopping carts or even HTML. They'd prefer installation wizards so that they can just see everything done. More competent store owners would more likely wish for more functionality, and that's no wonder. What then? That would be really smart to imagine yourself first the store manager then a client. As a manager you have to view the order processing procedure, try filling the catalogues and imagine that you have to deal with it really much. Ok? Then, which is much more difficult, turn to your client's side. Visit the site as if you were going to buy your product, try usability, filling the order and so on. If you plan to custom ize the shop check the code as well or show the software to the programmer to do that.
On this step or even earlier you have to decide what kind of shopping cart you'd prefer to order - until recently most of such software was written on PHP, a very popular technology, but now there is the alternative - ASP.NET which is a more functional, hard to learn but productive in use and so wide spread technology. ASP.NET is considered to be not so good as PHP for small projects, so if you're planning a small shop and small business like selling apples from your garden to your neighbours via www, a php web store will be really more suitable. In this case even a free web store software can be chosen. Yet for a significant business you'd really better choose a commercial shopping cart software, an asp.net shopping cart would be just normal, yet not each of them.
That's hard, sure. There so many listings, reviews, top tens on the web - you may surf, watch, check trials and choose the best one for you. Yet don't forget that some shopping cart may be over-promoted, some of them can turn out to be high-quality and handy though not marketed much. The only thing we can be sure - choosing the shopping cart you have to be greatly attentive and mind the needs of your business.
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