Shopping Carts
Off-the-shelf Self-Hosted E-commerce: a predeveloped program full of features to create a database full of products, search functions, members areas, all with a catalog style appeal. You purchase the program which may come with support and you customize it to your preferences and then host on your webhosts server.
Off-the-shelf Hosted E-commerce: The same as above but it’s hosted, which means you pay no upfront purchase fee, instead you kind of lease it monthly and the application and database is hosted on provider’s servers.
Hosted Shopping Cart: A shopping cart is different from an e-commerce website in that shopping carts are usually added on to existing static html websites for added functionality. Hosted shopping cart providers like 1shoppingcart.com, include some incredible features these days and a lot of help with the overall marketing of your website. Things that you may have never even thought about.
Unhosted Shopping Cart: Same as above but you purchase it and host it yourself and you configure it yourself.
Custom Design E-commerce: Host yourself, Produce Yourself, Design Yourself. The ultimate in control and the heaviest in price.
Many people will almost certainly prefer an off-the-shelf solution in which everything is already provided. The positive, of course, is that everything is already set up for you to use. The trade-off of course is that this will almost certainly cost you more in the long-run than if you managed your own site.
Top 5 shopping carts: Shopify
Shopaccino
Ecwid
Magento
WooCommerce

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