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Americart | /year | manual | allows sub info | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CoCart apparently defunct |
/year (does not include Netbanx or Authorizenet charges) | manual, also hooks to Netbanx.com or Authorizenet.com | handles US/Canada, card very simple embedded scheme. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DXSTORM DXCART | month or /year | manual, also hooks to InternetSecure or Authorizenet.com | Includes: affiliates program, membership program, membership bulk email system, integration with Authorizenet and InternetSecure or secure order capture for credit cards (bank charges not included), product search engine, appearance and all settings configurable through Web browser. Up to 25,000 products supported, database upload feature, Affiliates Program, Stats Tracking, Membership Database, Technical Support, Continuous Upgrades. Handles Canadian GST/HST/PST and other international currencies and taxes, handles sub info. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coffee Cup Shopping Cart Creator | and for the pro version. This is remarkably inexpensive for a one-time fee. | PayPal. Pro version also supports Google Checkout, Authorizenet, 2Checkout, WorldPay. details |
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DXSTORM DXSHOP | up to 12 items — free
forever, up to 100 - /mo … up to 2,000 /mo |
manual, also hooks to InternetSecure or Authorizenet.com | DXSHOP provides all the same shopping cart features as DXCART along with a front end catalog system, site builder, extended product features (bundled products, attributes, up-sell features). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elastic Path | one time payment. | automatic, multiple payment processors supported such as CyberSource, Verisign Payflow Pro, E-xact, PayPal, and various others. | located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Written in Java EE (Enterprise Edition). Handles catalog browsing & searching, shopping cart, customer self-service, order management, customer management, catalog management, merchandising, promotions, shipping, payment, taxes, reporting… Credit cards: automatic, multiple payment processors supported such as CyberSource, and various others 30-day free trial. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GoEmerchant | per month for shopping cart. per month for credit card processing without shopping cart. per transaction. Various other fees. | MasterCard, Visa, Discover, Amex | Offer techniques where you do your own programming or where you get a turnkey package. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FastSpring Commerce | Pricing is 5.9% plus or 8.9% flat per order, whichever you prefer. | Designed to sign downloadable digital products, with order pages in various currencies. | The Excelsior Jet people use the FastSpring FastPay scheme which lets them accept MasterCard, Visa, Amex, Discover, JCB, PayPal, cheque and money order. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Independent Commerce | per month. | manual. Credit card info sent to you by secure email. | Shopping cart. Webspace included. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
InternetSecure (aka Converge, aka MyVirtualMerchant) | No security deposit unlike the
deposits you may need to deal with the banks directly. These prices are for
rough budgeting only. Check with the vendor for the latest prices.
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automatic | Canadian, US and International (144 countries), 30-second credit card authorisation, does not include shopping cart software, ties into shopping cart systems from other vendors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CartDesigns neé KickAsp | /year (does not include InternetSecure or Authorizenet charges) | manual, also hooks to InternetSecure or Authorizenet.com | handles US/Canada, manual credit card processing or automated by Netbanx.com or Authorizenet.com, effectively Co Cart deluxe, UPS (United Parcel Service of America) Shipping rates, simple embedded scheme. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PayFlow LinkSM | setup plus per month, up to 500 transactions per month. | automatic via Verisign | Run by Verisign. Hence is likely to be more secure than average. Optional extra cost fraud screening. They won’t divulge details on how the shopping cart works until you buy. it. Arrogant eh? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PayPal | approximately 3% plus per transaction | automatic | It is very flexible. People can by credit card, debit card, bank account, or earned PayPal dollars. Comes with a very easy to use, flexible shopping cart scheme. The big advantage is you don’t have to deal with credit card companies at all. The disadvantage is PayPal is lax is permitting its eBay vendors to rip off customers. Hence PayPal itself has a bad reputation and many people refuse to use it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bluesnap née Plimus | 4.5%+ | automatic | Allows you to sell or rent software. Also allows you to do micro-commerce transactions such as pay per click. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
QuikStore | manual or optional hooks for automatic credit card authorisation. | uses a flat-file database of products to generate HTML, or you can roll your own. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RegNow | no monthly fee, 16% of gross with a minimum fee per transaction. | automatic | Run by Digital River. You add some cgi to your website that takes the user to the RegNow site. There a database you maintain online additionally describes the product. They collect the credit card fees, and optionally distribute the registered software, giving out registration keys, but not prebranding (burning the customer’s name into the executables). RegNow supports several schemes for registering shareware. RegNow can also be used for goods, but it is not a shopping cart. As soon as you click you go straight to the checkout. You don’t get any money until your account hits or you close the account. You can sell all the products you want at no extra charge. Many other shopping card vendors don’t let you use their services for shareware registration. RegNow has no facilities to deal with international currencies, taxes or shipping. This is not the drawback you might first think. Since Regnow is officially the seller of your products, they only need to collect sales taxes for MN, CT and WA. Competitor Regsoft is cheaper for software costing more than | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RegSoft | no monthly fee, 10% of gross with a minimum fee per transaction. | automatic | Set up mainly to sell shareware. Require huge amounts of information on each product, but in return, the html you need to embed is minimal e.g. http://www.regsoft.net/purchase.php3?productid=47458 Bank Cards Accepted: Visa, American Express, Mastercard, Discover/Novus, also Money Orders, Checks by mail and Eurocheques. Competitor Regnow is cheaper for software costing less than | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shopify (in Canada) |
to per month. | automatic | Supports payments via Beanstream, E-xact, Elavon MyVirtualMerchant, Moneris, PayPal Payflow Pro, Psigate, Safe Payment Solutions, Skip Jac. Handles Canadian sales taxes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Smartcart | setup + ?/year | manual | includes search engine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ShopCRC | $?/license | ? | You have to sign up for a free login id before they will tell you anything about the service. I have not done that. It may just allow you to set up a store to sell other vendor’s products, e.g. Dell, not your own. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WebCart | or /license | manual or optional hooks for automatic credit card authorisation. | Uses a product database. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WebGenie | /year or ..1495/license | manual | either generated HTML or embedded, flexible tax | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WebStore | /single user licence | manual |
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