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Shopping is something that is frequently done by everyone we know. Once World Wide Web started selling products and services online, there was an increasing trend to shop online as it was convenient and time saving. But at the beginning of the business, there was not much success as the financial transactions and choosing products online were difficult to handle. There has been a lot of fraud reported related those two as well.

Then there was a requirement for a virtual shopping cart where users can select products and add them to a shopping cart and eventually pay for all the products at once at the end. To fulfill this requirement, there have been hundreds of virtual shopping carts developed and some have failed to success in the business due to various reasons such as security vulnerabilities, performance, usability etc.

Nowadays there is few shopping cart software that have become very popular among the internet shopping sites. The best thing about them is that most of them are free of charge. Users even can change the features as they want when implementing the solution.

There are two basic ways of implementing shopping cart software to your website. One way is to download the shopping cart software and install in it your web server. Then maintain the shopping cart and hosting which is provided by you. The other way is to use a shopping cart hosting service for this purpose. Shopping cart software is hosted and maintained by a third party company and all you have to do is to upload your product catalogs. Everything else is taken care of by the shopping cart.

There are two layers of a shopping cart; the storefront and the administration. The storefront displays your products to the potential customers and the administration section is to manage products, product details, prices, payment options, shipping etc.