Shopping Cart Recommendation
Due to my Girly Things website and affiliated mailing list, I get a lot of e-mail asking about how to set up a website for selling crafts and handmade products. I always take the time to highlight the options available, depending upon the site owner’s experience with website software. One thing that I always tell people is that you need to have reliable and fully customizable shopping cart software for your site. You want to have full control over how the cart works and the ability to tweak it if you want to make global changes to pricing or policy.
Ashop Commerce is one of the top shopping cart solutions available. Unlike some of the free programs you can install on your server, Ashop Commerce has a tech support team that will walk you through everything. You can test the system free for 10 days and see how easy it is to set up and how dedicated the support folks are about helping you find the right ecommerce solution.
Instead of installing software and attempting to make it work on your own, Ashop is hosted on their site. They provide the secure servers, the fraud alerts, design help, and even web promotion services.
They are a viable solution for small businesses. The costs are low and the learning curve is small.
Shopping cart technology has become very sophisticated lately, and a hosted solution, such as this one, is really the way to go!