Pick a Shopping Cart

May 10th, 2010 | By Val | Category: Articles & Other Information, Outsourcing, Stuff We Use & Like

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Have you researched which shopping cart you are going to use for your digital or physical delivery? Have you checked out if a cart is better for one or the other delivery? There are many different carts and they are all tops for their services, you just have to make sure you choose the one that is right for you, your needs and your pricepoint in your business plan right now. Weigh your needs carefully as changing your shopping cart can be a lot of work later down the road. Even if something is slightly out of your pricepoint, it may be worth joining right away and pushing forward.

1. Digital delivery – This is sending out ebooks, reports or ecourses. If you are sticking to digital products then you want a program that will give out a cloaked link for delivery. Like WAHMcart or E-Junkie.

2. Physical products and shipping – This is sending out products to a person’s address. Cd’s, paper books, candles and other products to shop. This will require a shopping cart to calculate shipping, local sales taxes if necessary, and a good program will give you a clickable shipping label link! Zen cart is a good source for this and free. It does take some learning curve though, but if you have multiple physical products, I highly encourage you to look into it. WAHMcart does also do physical products, but I haven’t used it so I can’t give a review of it.

3. Affiliate program – As I’m in the affiliate manager marketing department, I have a few more of these to list. WAHMcart, E-Junkie, aMember, and Wishlist.

These are just three of the major things you need to look at before choosing a shopping cart for your products. Your price point per month or per sale and other aspects also come into affect, but get a list of those that hit the above areas first and then go by price.

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Val
Val Selby has been working from home since 1999. Wordpress and wahmcart are just two of here specialties. Follow her journey to balance family and business on http://workingwahm.com.

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