Shopping Carts, Store-Building Programs
Part 2: Comparisons and Updates
Issue 51, October 15, 2001

Dear Friends,

This issue continues our shopping cart/store-building software theme by focusing once more on shopping cart and store-building programs. I hope this clears up some of the confusion created by so very many choices. In this issue:

• Feature Comparison of Popular Shopping Cart/Store-Building Programs
• Bigstep.com Price and Feature Updates
• Yahoo! Store Price Change Analysis
• Product Review: Americart

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

Feature Comparison of Popular Shopping Cart/Store-Building Programs

Confused by all the shopping cart features and prices? This up-to-date chart compares eight of the leading small business online stores feature by feature for 63 different features. Covers PayPal, CCNow, Americart, Bigstep, ShopSite, Yahoo! Store, Miva Merchant, and MerchandiZer. See the Comparison Chart.

Feature and Price Updates

• Bigstep.com adds auction and catalog features, and switches from a free to a fee basis -- successfully. See the Update Analysis.



• Yahoo! Store changes its pricing system dramatically. Will it help you or hurt you? In this article Dr. Wilson and Rob Snell, an independent Yahoo! Store developer, analyze the impact of these changes on storeowners. See the Update Analysis.

Product Review: Americart

This e-commerce veteran isn't as flashy as some of the second and third generation store-building programs, but its price and features make it an important contender for small businesses. Read the Review.

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.)