There are many options available to businesses planning
on selling products online. Two of the things to consider
are whether you need a shopping cart application, and
how you are going to accept credit card orders.
Assuming you have only a handful of products, you probably
don't need a robust shopping cart application to organize
the products. However, you still need a merchant account
to accept credit cards. Two solution we recommend for
this are 2checkout.com
and CC
Now.
2checkout.com
is a program that allows you to build a small shopping
cart online and accept credit cards. It costs $50 to
set up, plus a percentage of each transaction.
CC
Now
allows you to securely accept credit cards and PayPal
payments for a transaction fee. There is no setup fee.
If you have a full catalog of products, you'll need
a more robust shopping cart application to keep things
organized. Our preferred method of building shopping
cart applications is to use OSCommerce - a powerful
open source shopping cart application. This can be customized
to fit the needs of almost any business needing a shopping
cart. |
