Adding a shopping cart to a business website?

Question

I have an account with paypal and I was wondering if it would be easiest and/or most beneficial to add their shopping cart to my website or to use another service. Has anyone had any experience with this problem? Is there a better way (rather than paypal) to go? Thanks for all imput.

Answer 1

Find the best deal on merchant services (credit card porcessing) first. Use a national bank if possible or else you will be tossed around like salad when you want help. Make sure your merchant services are compatible with your "store" provider if you have one. Yahoo stores work with a certain type of provide which I don't have so it has been extremely hard to intigrate credit card processing with my yahoo store. Paypal sucks! Charge.com/Pipeline data hold your money hostage without cause, justfication and notice. So far auctioncheckout has the best customer service, have an ebay checkout, and other shopping cart html copy/paste code to build your own shopping cart. Try and make your own by cut/paste and edit text and pictures, it's not as hard as it sounds.

Answer 2

After a little research, we ended up going through MonsterCommerce. Easy to set up and integrate, but we have a separate storefront now instead of just a shopping cart. Yahoo also has an option that looks pretty good, especially if you're using other services of theirs already.

Answer 3

Google Checkout is now also available. I personally haven't used either, but Google presented its product to our company and it looked pretty nice. I don't know what sort of back end set up you have already though, you will need to set something up to create a cart itself though, no matter what service you wind up going through.

Answer 4

how about setting up a facebook page i did and it put customers our way :) also its free !! good luck