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e-Commerce Shopping Carts

e-Commerce shopping carts are how you sell multiple products/services online. They vary in their capabilites and in their ease of use. All the shopping carts need a gateway to connect to a merchant account or to be connected to a payment system like PayPal or Authorize.net.

(In parenthesis is the programming language and associated database. This is important when selecting the operating system of the hosting server.)

	Web Link
	AgoraCart - Open Source - (Pearl) Not reviewed yet.
	CS-Cart (php - MySQL) Nice features, nice price. Not that easy to integrate into web design unless you know php.
	Digishop (php-MySQL) Full featured shopping cart system designed to be easier for non-php designers to integrate into a site design. Versions from $399 - $999 Developer is in the USA.
	Miva Merchant (php - MySQL) Miva Merchant is a full-featured shopping cart system used by many hosting companies for clients. It has a system for integrating the shopping cart into a site design. $849
	osCommerce - Open Source (php-MySQL) osCommerce is the most used open-source shopping cart. It is good for web sites that do not want to integrate the shopping cart into a design. There are many add-ons to it to increase functionality. Developers worldwide.
	phpShop - Open Source (php - MySQL) A simple free shopping cart.
	X-Cart (php - MySQL) X-Cart is a full-featured shopping cart with many add-ons and skins. Priced at $199.00, it has add-ons at various prices. Developed in Russia.
	Zen Cart - Open Source (php-MySQL) Zen Cart is an open-source (free) shopping cart with many features already built-in. It also has a good number of templates (skins) to give it different looks and styles. Not easy to integrate into a design unless php knowledgeable. Developers wor