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If you are selling products or services online, then you absolutely have to have shopping cart feature on your website. There are several steps that you need to follow in order to have an operational shopping cart. The basic concept is that you download shopping cart software, create a merchant account to accept digital payments, and connect it with back-end system. 
Here are a few tips on how to set up a shopping cart:
- Use hosted shopping cart solution. Several websites such as quickcart.com, shopify.com, and paypal.com host shopping cart solutions. You don’t require any knowledge of how the shopping cart works. These websites for a fee offer full service from processing payments to back-end system integration. If you don’t know or have no time to build and maintain a shopping cart, choosing a hosted shopping cart solution is the way to go.
- Download shopping cart software. There are some shopping cart software like ecommerce template, shoppingPro, and merchandiser Pro that can be integrated with web developing programs such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, and Golive. The ecommerce software is add-on software that offers shopping cart solutions. These solutions allow you to design your own online store, sync your database with online store, and integrate your shopping cart with payment processing providers such as paypal, amazon, google checkout, and others.
- Use free shopping cart templates. If you don’t need a complicated shopping cart on your website and you know how to connect it to your back-end system, you can try some free shopping cart templates. These templates offer free basic features such as add to cart button, update your cart, and shipping charge settings. If you need more advanced shopping cart templates, you can download them for a fee.
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