Boost your web store with an open source shopping cart solution

Feb 24, 2014, by admin

Flexible, secure and scalable checkout software for any size of business

More and more companies have turned to the web to transact business. And, of course, if you are going to sell on the web, the right shopping cart can mean the difference between red and black ink. When shopping for your own ecommerce shopping cart software the most important aspect to consider is how well the cart software meets your business objectives.

An e-commerce shopping cart has to be customisable to fit your business needs and branding, be flexible enough to scale as your business grows, be secure and support industry standards and provide solid integrate with payment gateways.

Open source shopping cart software is an attractive option. Storeowners might look to open source ecommerce software because it will typically deliver the features and tools to manage a product catalogue on a website without the hefty licensing fees that come with proprietary or off-the-shelf packages.

Open source shopping cart software also provides access to communities of users including developers, storeowners and enthusiasts who freely offer community-based support and addons to enhance the open source software package.

Storeowners who decide to use open source shopping cart software can always pay for additional support and service through qualified third parties if they find the community-based support is not enough.