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Shopping Carts
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Very often our clients want to
generate direct income through their websites. This may come in
the form of a product shopping cart or it can be as simple as
individual buy or donate buttons.
We can make it easy for you to get your website to generate
funds by helping you install the right level of shopping cart
for your business or organization.
There are tons and tons of
options out there on the internet for shopping carts. You
could research forever finding more cart options than you can
count. It can get rather confusing for the average person
to know which way to go and which choices to make. It's our job to make it easy for you
so you don't have
to be overwhelmed by these options. To this end, we
primarily provide two levels of shopping carts for our clients.
Option 1: The Full Blown
Shopping Cart
We've used a bunch of
shopping carts and after lots of research we've chosen to
primarily use a cart run by
ProStores™ (which is an eBay company that is also partnered with
PayPal). This cart is extremely functional, inexpensive, and
allows us to customize the pages to look just like your website.
What we do is help you sign up for the cart level you need and
set it up completely so that you can run your shopping cart
yourself. We design the cart and integrate it into your site,
make sure everything works, and then give you a class on how to add, remove, and update your
own products. This empowers you to run your own online store and
gets you a full blown and very powerful online shopping cart!
Option 2: The Simplified
Shopping Cart
Some of our clients have no need
to go all out with a full blown shopping cart - they don't need the
expense or don't have enough items to make it worthwhile. They simply need to
have some buy or donate buttons on their website. This is a
much simpler and cost effective way to generate money through your
site without going through all that design and integration. We
believe in choosing the right option for our clients and if all you
need is a basic cart, then that's what we'll give you!
In
this case, we simply sign you up for an account with
PayPal,
Google Checkout,
Authorize.net,
or
Amazon.com . We primarily use
PayPal, but do have experience with these other options. Once we get your an account, then
we install shopping cart code right into your site. Often we
can also add some minor customization like dropdown menus into the
cart to make it function the way that you need. So, if you have
something special you need to ask on the cart, we can do it. We
can also add "subscription carts" so you can collect money on a
monthly or yearly basis from your customers or donors if that would
help get you regular income. These carts
would then run on your website, and the monetary elements would go
through the outside provider like
PayPal. This is
a much simpler and inexpensive way to get into the world of online
shopping carts.
Let us help you break into the
world of online shopping carts. You too can become an online
retailer or take donations through your site. Let us help you create
your cart and make it fully functional without all the hassle of
having to figure it out on your own. We work with you to make
this easy!
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