website shopping cart question

[tribalmax]

Hi there,

For those of you with a home business -- how do you create your website shopping cart? I use frontpage 2002 and am baffled about how to set up a shopping cart. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Rachel

[dogmom327]

A shopping cart is a seperate piece of software. There are free ones out there (e.g. Zencart Opencart, etc.) and one's you pay for (Lite Commerce and it's big brother X-Cart, etc.). For my website, we used Zencart so the shopping cart was free and then we bought a template/skin to make it look nicer.

[CawMama]

Also, don't overlook www.Mals-e.com. I've been pretty happy with it for the last year.

[tribalmax]

Originally Posted by Carrin

Also, don't overlook www.Mals-e.com. I've been pretty happy with it for the last year.

Thanks! Is it a free service?

Has anyone ever used the paypal buttons? They are also free (aside from the percentage you pay to paypal for purchases).

I figured those out last night and it was pretty easy.

Rachel

[CawMama]

Yes, it's free, but you can upgrade to premium for more features (which is still realy cheap).

[tribalmax]

Thanks!

[nursingmom]

you should first figure out which hosting company to host your site. your hosting company offers free shopping cart. i'm with pappashop and they use mals-e shopping cart. it's all integrated already. It's free... but i upgraded mine to premium which is still very good price.

[tribalmax]

I thought about that -- but I am using freehostia.

And they don't offer that...