dotCart Shopping Cart System

In general terms, an Internet shopping cart (sometimes referred to as a virtual shopping cart) is a software program that, when integrated into your Web store, enables customers to choose one or more items from the Web store, specify particular options that might be available and then purchase those items collectively in just a few steps - all online.

 The basket

Just as you might choose grocery items from several different aisles at your local supermarket, a visitor to your Web site can navigate through the site, choosing items which may appear on different pages from one another. Continuing this analogy, as you walk down different aisles in the supermarket, items are placed in a shopping cart, which serves as a "basket" for those items until you are ready to check out. Similarly, shopping cart software keeps track of the chosen items as a customer navigates through your Web store.

Once the customer is finished shopping, the shopping cart summarizes the items and facilitates the checkout process - allowing him to pay for all items at once - just like the checkout counter at your local supermarket. It totals the cost of the items placed in the "basket", applies the necessary discounts or coupons, calculates sales tax, and adds shipping costs according to the shipment method specified by the customer. Fields are provided to input 'ship to' addresses and payment information.

Of course, the analogy above assumes that the customer can rely on the shopping cart's "permanence" - that is, once items are placed in the cart, they remain there as the customer navigates from page to page until the customer is ready to check out. What's more, if the customer leaves the Web store without checking out, the items remain in the cart and are still there upon their return.

As is the case with real-life shopping carts, virtual shopping carts exist in many different varieties. Some are very sophisticated technically, and have a professional appearance about them, while others are very simple to use.

Why do you need it?

•  Increase your business revenue by opening the doors to online shoppers;

•  Concentrate running your shop, not building it;

•  Use the advanced Control Panel to manage your shop online from any location, any time;

• Increase incoming traffic thanks to dotCart search engine friendly pages;

• Offer your customers an streamlined navigation system increasing user satisfaction and therefore online sales. Convert your visitors into repeat customers;

• Improve cross-selling by using product suggestions;

• Increase return users thanks to dotCart rich feature set: wish lists, newsletters, order tracking etc.;

• Reduce your work by pro-actively helping your customers with order tracking, ordes status change e-mail notifications, powerful searches, easy navigation and other powerful shopping cart features;

• Easy to use and administration interface

      (No programming knowledge necessary);

• Fast and reliable hosting;

• Toll free shop support;

• Search engine optimized shops;

• Set up a complete online store solution with a single software solution;

• The possibility to update your shop any time, anywhere in the world and instantly.