Many people think because they sell a few items online, they need to spend hundreds, even thousands on a fancy schmancy shopping cart. The fact is, many sites may not require it; yet.

If your site is just starting off, and you have a handful of items (or services) then perhaps starting off with a secure form or even Pay Pal may do the trick for now.

What are the benefits? Pay Pal is a world recognized service that is owned by eBay. Just about anyone online knows of this service and will feel comfortable shopping with it. Pay Pal also does not charge you a dime unless you make a sale.

A secure form allows shoppers to safely send you their credit card information online. It will NOT process the transaction, but does allow you to receive info and process it either through a merchant account service through the bank.

Shopping carts (also referred in this blog as E-commerce) is a viable marketing tool for your web business. This is not intended to prevent you from having one. Shopping carts do provide a very secure method of processing payments for products/services via your website. Many of our clients are just not sure which to choose. Hopefully this helps. Feel free to contact us for further review.