Theme: Favorite and Unfavorite Shopping Carts
Issue 67, February 15, 2003

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Dear Friends,

In this issue we're looking at the results of the "favorite shopping cart" survey I conducted in February 2003.

• Introduction to the Favorite Shopping Cart Survey
• User Comments about Favorite and Unfavorite Carts
• Shopping Cart Systems Used by Higher Revenue Stores
• Order Management Solutions for Smaller Online Merchants

I'll be in Chicago, Houston, and Los Angeles next week for the one-day Doctor Ebiz Internet Marketing Seminar (www.wilsonweb.com/seminar/). In April and May I'll be in Toronto, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Orlando. Sign up soon so you don't miss out on the early-bird price. You'll be glad you came -- and I hope to get acquainted with you at one of these.

God bless you,
Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, Editor

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Introduction to the Favorite Shopping Cart Survey

This introduces the February 2003 survey of favorite shopping carts used by e-merchants. Dr. Wilson offers guidelines for interpretation (most popular is not necessarily better), some data about the merchants, and his overall observations on the direction of shopping cart use as indicated by the survey. Read the Introduction

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Comments about Favorite and Unfavorite Carts

Here readers give their candid comments -- both pro and con -- on their favorite and unfavorite shopping cart programs. Comments are included about 1ShoppingCart, 2Checkout, Able Commerce, Actinic, AmeriCart, bCentral, BizHosting, CandyPress, CartIt Commerce System, CartManager, Cart32, CFWebstore, CCNow, ClickBank, ClickCartPro, Comersus, CoolCart, Commission Cart, Dansie, DXcart, DigitalRiver, ECommerceTemplates.com, Flashecom.com, goEmerchant, InterShop, Interchange, King-Cart, Mals E-Commerce, Mercantec Softcart, MerchandiZer, Microsoft Commerce, Miva, MOFcart, MonsterCommerce, Nexternal Solutions, osCommerce, PayPal, Paysystems/Revecom, Quikstore, SecureNetShop, ShopFactory, ShopSite, Store2003, StoreFront, VPASP, WebCart, WebDNA (formerly WebCatalog), With-It Solutions, X-Cart, and Yahoo! Store. Most comments aren't long or profound, but they contain vital information for those searching for the right e-commerce application. Read the Candid Comments

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Shopping Cart Systems Used by Higher Revenue Stores

The carts used by high-revenue sites tend to be different from low-revenue, mom and pop e-stores. Here is the software for higher-earning sites, broken down by monthly sales revenue range. Read the Survey Results

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Order Management Solutions for Smaller Online Merchants

Shopping cart programs allow you to take orders via the Internet, but how do you fulfill these orders? Many carts are no help at all! Order fulfillment is messy. You need a program that will help you keep track of items shipped, split orders, back orders, returned orders, drop-shipped orders, customer phone calls, sales tax, shipping labels, etc. Right now there aren't many programs that bridge the gap between shopping carts and accounting or shipping applications. Here are some that our respondents were using -- including Dr. Wilson's recommendations. Read the Survey Results

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New Ecommerce and Web Marketing Articles

Each month our team of link editors scours dozens of online periodicals and resources to find key information on e-commerce and Web marketing. With so much new literature available to you, how do you find what you need quickly and painlessly? Here's a selective and searchable database of article and resource links to help your research and keep you up-to-date in the field. (Links gathered in a given month are usually available during the second week of the following month.)

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