Ecommerce & Shopping Cart Software & Tool Reviews

• How do you set up a shop on line - listing goods and services and giving the visitors a way to 'find', 'add to' a shopping basket & 'pay'?
• How do you take money, on your website, for goods & services that you offer?
• How do you deliver those goods, once payment is made? This is especially crucial if what you sell is some form of digital product - music, ebook, software etc.

No doubt you have decided that you need some form of e-commerce software or e-commerce service to help you.

Read more about how I decided how to solve my ecommerce shopping trolley questions

• Build a simple or complicated ecommerce shop and ecommerce shopping cart system for your customers (see e-commerce shopping solutions).
• Accept money on your website securely (see 3rd party payment methods).
• Deliver those digital products by automating the download so that you can sell, accept money and deliver... even while you sleep (e-commerce digital delivery solutions).

 

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E-commerce shopping trolleys & carts

If you need to add

• Shopping trolleys & carts
• Order forms
• 'Buy Now' buttons

To your web pages to add to the shopping experience? Check out the reviews of the following services:

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e-junkie

Editors choice. Easy to set up, easy to use, easy to add products and buttons, really good value for money.

E-junkie have broken the mould of website shopping cart services by giving you easy to add options when you sign up.

I spent many hours evaluating the different ecommerce services, both for ease of use and variety of options.

What's great about e-junkie:

• Very low monthly fees starting from $5.00
• Handles both digital downloads and tangible goods.
• Offers easy to install shopping carts & buy now buttons.
• Integrates seamlessly with payment gateways like 'PayPal, 'Google Checkout', & more.
• Gives you great add-ons like shipping calculation and inventory management.
• Easy to set up and use.
• Lets you set up & manage your own affiliate programme and get others selling your goods.
• Gives you the ability to offer promotional coupons and incentives.

The website is also a joy to look at and use. It's fun, it's funky and it works.

Take a look at e-junkie now.

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Google Checkout

The big boys are going head-to-head. Google has at last unveiled it's rival shopping trolley checkout system to rival Paypal.

 

 

You are no doubt seeing the above logo appearing all over the internet. Like mushrooms popping up over night, Google have begun the battle with PayPal & World Pay to win the hearts and pockets of online shoppers the world over.

Offering a simple and easy to understand payment gateway, Google offer you the tools to set up shop and take customers orders and money.

Google don't offer as many features as PayPal currently do, but they are working hard to compete at every level with the veteran money handling gateway.

At present PayPal has thousands of retailers offering goods and services using their payment gateway... but it's only a matter of time until Google build their users.

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Paypal

The worlds favourite services for shopping cart, shopping buttons & many other merchant tools.

 

 

Paypal is probably the worlds best recognised online payment facility. Paypal have spent years fine tuning their users experience and have gained an enviable reputation for being secure and safe to use, something every online merchant must appear when taking customers money.

By using PayPal and displaying the PaylPal logo you offer your customers the confidence that they need to take out their credit cards and enter their details.

For a review on what paypal can do for you.

 

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1ShoppingCart

1ShoppingCart is a web-based, shopping cart system, that includes credit card processing, merchant account, digital product delivery, newsletter manager, email marketing autoresponders, pop-up wizard, ad tracking, and two-tier affiliate program marketing system.

Take a closer look at 1ShoppingCart

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E-commerce 3rd party payments

But what if you don't want to set up any form of payment handling yourself?

For all your online payment handling needs check out the following reviews of services that can help you:

Charge Today

Is a full service Merchant Account payment solutions provider with a record of financial security, excellent services and customer satisfaction. Offering you a full range of excellent Merchant Services has always been a priority at ChargeToday.com. Whether your business is retail, wholesale, phone order, mail order or internet based, we have the credit card processing solution that is right for you.

Take a look at the Charge Today website to learn more

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Paypal

The worlds favourite service for 3rd party payments. You can accept credit cards & bank transfers. Feel confident in the hands of a trusted online 3rd party payment service that offer secure solutions.

 

PayPal (owned by eBay.com) is the nets most popular online payment service. Members can use it to send/receive money via the web to/from anyone in the world. PayPal can also be used to allow people/businesses to accept credit card payments. Money can be withdrawn via check or it can be deposited directly into your checking account. The uses for this service are almost endless. If you're not already a member, become one. PayPal is already well on it's way to becoming the online payment standard. A large number of get paid companies pay their members via PayPal (which costs less and gets payments to members more quickly). PayPal charges $5 to sign up and $5/referral (restrictions apply). All transactions are free for members that don't accept credit card payments. Highly recommended. Click here to sign up as a regular member, or click here to sign up as a premier member in order to accept credit cards. Both types of memberships are free.

For a review on what paypal can do for you.

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Instant Store

One of the main features that I like about Instant Store is the scalability of this service.

Whether you are a small home commerce business or you run a full size department store, Instant Store is able to offer you the facilities to be able to build an on screen store front that will please both you and your customers:

 

• Easy store setup - fully customisable templates.
• Ability to target your defined market.
• Selection of layouts.
• Selection of shopping carts and positioning.
• Seamless checkout processes.
• Set up multi-level subcategories.
• Language converter to target other countries.
• Thumbnail to large image options.
• Affiliate programme modules.
• Autoresponder and follow up email campaign facility.
• Tracking modules.
• Website customer feedback forms.

Seriously this service offers you the sort of features that give you true ecommerce power.

Start Your Own Ecommerce Empire Within 24 Hours. Click here now!

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E-commerce digital download delivery

Do You Sell:

• Music & audio?
• Photos & Images?
• Software?
• Ebooks, Guides & Magazines?
• Computer Games?
• Video Tutorials?
• Website Content?

Then chances are you are looking for a way of securely downloading to your customers without having to send the download manually every time.

Get those digital products to your customers in split seconds following their confirmed payment. The whole process automated and handled without you even at your computer.

Read the reviews of the following services:

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e-junkie

Editors choice. Easy to understand, easy to sign up, easy to add products and buttons, really good value for money. Best of all it's stylish and fun to use.

I love e-junkie because as soon as you land on the website you feel that everything is clearly organised.

When I first set decided to sell my own digital product, an ebook which had loads of images & audio, I looked for a simple way of managing the automated download to my customers.

I searched and evaluated many services until I found e-junkie.

They offer:

• Very reasonable hosting costs, from $5.00/ month unlimited downloads.
• Very easy to follow set up instructions.
• Secure payment gateways with 'Google Checkout', 'PayPal', '2CheckOut' plus others.
• Options to sell your product via there own store or through google and other third parties.
• Options to set up your own affiliate programmes.

All of this and they have a clean and easy to use website that looks good too.

Visit e-junkie and set up your digital downloads in minutes

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Payloadz

Like e-junkie Payloadz offers you a no nonsense, secure way of allowing your customers to pay for and download the products that you have for sale.

Like e-junkie it handles payments via PayPal, but not other payment gateways.

It's simple to set up your 'Buy Now' buttons and get started. Payloadz walks you through the process step-by-step.

Why don't I give it as high a rating as e-junkie?

• Payloadz charges a minimum fee of $15.00 per month compared to e-junkie's $5.00
• Payloadz isn't as user friendly and doesn't let you browse the website before signing up where as e-junkie allows you a good look around and even a free trial.
• E-junkie has a lot more add on's and options to market your products e.g. their shop, the affiliate programme, marketing with Google etc.
• Payloadz only uses Paypal but e-junkie offer a number of payment gateways.

But it is still a good service and a nice easy to use website.

Take a look at the Payloadz website

 

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Clickbank

ClickBank is a favorite among internet marketers. They have a built in affiliate program and a marketplace to sell your product on. They only support digital products, and you can only have one sales URL per account (although you can have many products on it). They also have a price cap on products. They pay by cheque every 2 weeks. There is a signup fee of $49.

Find Out More About Clickbank here 

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