What is the difference between a prebuilt and the custom shopping cart?
It is very difficult to think about a e-commerce website that sells tangible products without a shopping cart. If you don’t know what a shopping cart is, it is the interface that lets you add items to a data array when you are shopping online. When you’re done with adding all the items it presents to you a tabular view of the total of the amount you have to pay along with the list of items you have decided to purchase along with their individual prizes.
There are many flavors of prebuilt shopping carts available on the Internet and many shopping carts are even free. Most of the time when you get your website hosted on a third-party commercial server among many free scripts they also give you a free shopping cart script that you can install as and when you need it. But free is after all free.
Similarly there are many expensive, commercial shopping carts available that you can purchase and install or lease for a year or more. They are mostly like the proprietary software that you may have on your computer; you can use it and you can make use of the features it already has but you cannot customize it much and you cannot customize the features that come with the software. Prebuilt commercial shopping carts become operational very quickly even if you have to compromise on the customization aspect. Just purchase or lease the script and start using it from the day one. (more…)