What kind of small business website design company would Mystic Liquid be if we didn’t understand the importance of having a shopping cart on your e-commerce website? You can offer every product in the world but without a way for customers to order and pay for their purchases you’re just wasting your time. Now you can see why we stress the importance of a shopping cart on your website.

The Importance of Design

The type and design of your shopping cart is hands down one of the most important e-commerce decisions can make for your business. The right shopping cart will energize your e-commerce store, while the wrong one will just drag you down. It allows your website perform so many vital functions such as taking orders, calculating the tax and shipping, displaying the products, and some even can build your online catalog.

We offer two different types of options shopping cart designs. A custom developed cart provides flexibility and incorporates specific requirements for your business to the shopping cart but it costs more. We also can build one of a few different template based designs which are more standardized providing less flexibility but fit close to all design budgets.

Processing Payments

Most experts put the number of online transactions paid with credit cards at close to 95% and it’s only become greater. As a business you need to have a secure means of collecting your customer’s credit card information if you want to begin taking online credit card payments. The choice of how you process those transactions is up to you. It can be done manually or through an online authorization system. You’ll also need to get your business a merchant account from you bank so you can deposit your payments.
SSL Certification
An important factor in building a shopping cart is the use of an SSL Server Certificate, enabling the secure encryption on the web server. This digital certificate protects order communications to securely process credit card payments. It also prevents computer hackers cannot steal sensitive data leading to identity theft and fraud.
Shopping Cart Software Maintenance
You are going to need ASP’s. These application services providers allow you to build edit and maintain your e-commerce storefront through your web browser in the store’s back end administration panel. This would be used to add new products, hide out of stock products from view, upload new images, change prices, edit the look of your storefront, or to edit any other options with ease.

 ASP's are crucial to developing a profitable business because of this simple accessiblity of the store for maintenance and constant store updates. For a simple e-commerce site, we can build you a form-based interface for entering product information. These tend to be preferable for business owners instead of editing the pages directly.