Shopping Carts: Hosted Store-Building Systems

These programs typically generate either dynamic, "on-the-fly" product pages or static HTML webpages that are maintained by the system. Many of these will manage the entire website -- or at least the e-commerce portion of it -- with a web browser interface. They handle the entire ordering system on a SSL secure server and charge a monthly or annual fee. Most also require a merchant account and payment gateway to do real-time credit card authorization. There are 65 applications in this category. An asterisk indicates a winner of the Web Commerce Today E-Commerce Award of Merit 2004.