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All open source shopping cart software offerings have unique features about them which make them more or less useful, depending on your needs as an online marketer.
The following is a list of shopping cart features that you should consider as you decide which cart to use as the platform for your online money make website.
- Discount coupons
- Affiliate programs
- Gift certificates
- Automatic postage calculations (such as with UPS, FedEx, USPS)
- International postage calculations (in real time)
- Order-taking options (through the website, over the phone, fax)
- Detailed statistics (who came to the site? How did they get there?)
- Flexibility with taxes (state, international, multiple taxes)
- Credit card payment options (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, etc)
- Multiple payment options (Credit Card, PayPal, C.O.D., paper invoice, purchase order, charge to telephone)
- Real-time credit card processing
- Electronic gateway options (such as Authorizenet, Verisign, Bank of America,...)
- Multiple currency displays (Selling to Canada? Show the prices in Canadian dollars)
- Recurring billing (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
- Digital delivery (for e-books and other e-files)
- Bulk purchase discounting
- Recognition of repeat customers and customer-sign in
- Automatic confirmation emails
- Automated "lost password" recovery
- Newsletter sign-ups
- In-site search engine
- Detailed sales reports (to the extent of cost versus price)
- Integration with sales software (such as Quickbooks)
- Security issues (such as forbidding orders from a Yahoo account)
- Gift wrapping option
- Multiple products options (such as color, size, style)
