Online ecommerce was over $100 billion last year. That consists of everything from Amazon.com to the knick knacks people sell on eBay. Last year, PayPal processed about 6% of all online payments worldwide ($11.36 billion). 40% of those sales originated outside of eBay properties, which often requires some kind of online shopping cart to manage the transactions.
PayPal has 133 million account holders and Google Checkout handles one transaction for every 70 that PayPal does, according to Hitwise. EJunkie has a simple free cut and paste solution to this problem for small sellers called FatFreeCart. It lets anyone easily put a shopping cart on their site. PayPal has their own cart creator, but FatFreeCart gives users more choice: both PayPal and Google Checkout can be used.
To install the cart on your site, you just need to cut and paste this code to your page and change the text in red, filling in details like merchant id, product description, and taxes. Customers can add and subtract items from their carts and commit to a final checkout by being taken to a prefilled order form on either of the services. When the order is completed, the merchant is notified of the purchase via email and can fulfill the order.
Readers interested in other simple web solutions should check out JS Kit’s website widgets.
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My main concern is: is it safe enough? Do my site’s customers activity will be logged?
Nifty idea, especially including Google Checkout.
and they make money how???
(what’s in it for them?)
@Nick – so you would recommend us to use it?
I might marinate on this for a while and see where it goes. If it turns out to be safe, great. I think it might be wise for people to exercise some caution before putting this on their site.
If not this cart, anybody have any other suggestions on an alternative SECURE shopping cart?
E-junkie has been around for quite some time and really does provide some great services – particularly for digital products…
I assume that giving this away for free is a good way to create more awareness for the rest of their services, which really are top notch.
I will definitely be checking out this new cart of theirs.
Thanks for providing background on E-junkie Mike
Rich, FatFreeCart.com is as safe as PayPal’s standard shopping cart or Google’s regular HTML API integration. We don’t and can’t track the buyers as although we maintain the cart, buyers enter their information on checkout page at Google Checkout or PayPal so we have absolutely no buyer information.
Sojo, as Mike pointed out, it’s become a great promotional tool for us so _free_ still does pay us
It looks like great simple implementation; that might have cost them 15 hours. Therefore it was worth it for a TC spotlight.
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Cool! This really came at a great time as I’m about to start selling sponsor places to my Internet-series online. I’ll definitely be checking this out. Thanks for the tip!
For those interested, Magento is an upcoming open-source eCommerce solution from Varien. It is not comparable to the product reviewed, but rather a feature-rich and complete eCommece platform.
http://www.magentocommerce.com
@Roy, Can Magento interface numerous payment gateways via a single installation?
as stupid as it gets.
spend your time wise.
bdb – yes. Magento will interface with multiple payment gateways, certainly.
Nice concept. BUT MAJOR SECURITY LOOPHOLE IS POSSIBLE
By having a code snippet installed on a website, it bypasses the cross domain security restrictions built into browsers and javascript.
This means that not only could they change the code at any time without the website owner knowing but they could also log information. Not that they would, but it presents a possible security loophole that people should be aware of.
Augustine, that’s possible when you place any third party JS on your site .. be it for stats tracking or any other widget.
This looks interesting, but the title caught my attention – free. I checked the site, and it’s not, caught me off guard. Not an issue, but thought I’d point it out for others who come across this as well.
Not sure what you mean Ankit, it _is_ Free
This is great – finally something that combines both google checkout and paypal.
Excellent!.
Thanks for posting this, great service. And thank you robin for offering this free of use
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Joe
be better if the scroll bar worked when it was more then a few items, but solid smooth looking design
I have been using this for a while now, and it’s great! I have about six stores selling intangible items, my only wish is for them to implement more options for buyers. Maybe AlertPay? idk
Paypal has gone downhill in customer support and fraud. They really have no regard for legitimate transactions and will not go back once they have made a decision.
I saw a couple of people questioning it’s security? Please of what you are asking… this cart is not to process transactions, but to gather your customer’s items and process them all at once using “paypal” or “google checkout”.
care to try this?
http://www.widg...l-shopping-cart
the form submitted directly to paypal.