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Buyers' Guide to
Online Payment Acceptance
Chapter 3: Shopping Cart
Software
Once
you have a secure server up and running you'll
need a shopping cart, which will display the
order forms, store orders and calculate costs. In
addition to ensuring that your shopping cart can
work with your Real-Time gateway (if you decide
to do Real-Time credit card processing) you
should look for several other primary features:
Easy to install and quick
execution
Customizable so that the
pages generated by the shopping cart look
just like your site
Ability to calculate
shipping costs and sales tax
Has all of the features
that you will need for the foreseeable
future. Otherwise you will be changing
platforms soon!
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
support if you decide to do deferred
processing through your own software
Some
shopping cart systems you may want to investigate
include:
PerlShop
Cart-It
QuickStore
ShopSite
PDG
Cart
The
Exchange Project
Several of the shopping carts listed above are
free, others cost several hundred dollars. It's
just a matter of matching your needs and
technical abilities with the software. CGI
Resources is the home of a number of
Perl-written shopping cart scripts that you can
implement on your site. Just do a search on their
main page for "shopping carts" and
you'll be presented with a number of scripts to
choose from.
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