What function do your shopping cart need?
Not the complete function is just good, Choosing the most suitable one is the best.
Firstly, you must know what is your shopping cart’s requirement, before choosing a shopping cart. How many products do you want to show, where are the buyers from, sell to the other country or not, etc.
If your products need to be sold abroad, your shopping cart need the support of multi-language, multi-currency, international shipping, which are all necessary. Supporting multi-language not always need to be translated into multi-language edition, but reserve this function for the future. Many popular shopping cart have integrated many main stream language pack now, which can be obtained free.
If the products of your shopping cart is less than one hundred, you need not a very powerful shopping cart, for which will cause the low efficiency, and increase the host burden.
You need a powerful one if your products is above hundreds even thousands. A managing function of the powerful shopping cart is very necessary, which is mass adding, the function of modifying the products and catalogue, and which is very useful for some shopping carts contained many products.
The basic function of the shopping cart:
Front:
Cart, Catalog, Account, Information, Manufacturer, New products, Reviews, Bestsellers, Relate Products, Track order, Coupons, etc…
Admin:
Product features, Languages, Currencies, Import, Export, Payment, Shipping, etc…
The extending function of the shopping cart:
Front:
Filter by price, Wish list, News, Evnet, Testimonlals, Tag Cloud, Tell a friend, Compare, Track order, Recently viewed, F.A.Q, Gift Certificate, Wholesale, Points, Promotions, Site Maps, Contact us, Blog, Live Chat, Order Barcode, RMA, One-page checkout, SEO URLs, CMS, etc…
Admin:
Bulk category add, Bulk product add, Access restrictions, Statistics, Newsletters, News subscribers, Manage ads, Form builder, Affiliate, Free shipping, Verification, Memberships, Suppliers, etc…
