If you have tried shopping online then you must have used a shopping cart. The shopping cart is a program that takes care of your online catalog, item inventory, and item orders. Your customer can shop around your size, pick the item/s they want and store it in the shopping cart.

The shopping cart will keep track of the other items selected until such time that the customer is ready to check them out.

iPage Shopping Cart

By default, ShopSite is used by iPage because of its features. There are also other CGI-based shopping carts utilized by iPage should you wish not to use ShopSite.

Shopping Cart Parts

The shopping cart consists of two parts:

Storefront

Administration area

Storefront

This is the part that visitors will see and access on your site. Your various products are listed here where users can easily look at them. Aside from the catalogued items, the storefront contains the payment terms and conditions. There may also be shopping tools for the visitors such as a search bar.

This is particularly important if you have plenty of items on your site.

Administration Area

This is the control panel of your e-commerce site. This serves as your control center should you wish to configure your store and edit the products that you are selling such as size, color, and price.

ShopSite

ShopSite is an award-winning shopping cart for both small-sized and medium-sized businesses. iPage offers three ShopSite Shopping Cart to cater to your needs.

ShopSite Starter

ShopSite Manager

ShopSite Pro

ShopSite Starter Features

If you are a business that is just starting and have few items to sell, this is for you.

Can place up to 15 items and 5 pages.

Setup can be done with a store wizard with themes to choose from.

Secure ordering

Global web editing software

Supports dual currency

Automatic receipts to customers

Flexible shipping and handling

Tax by zip code

E-mail marketing

Free in most hosting plans

ShopSite Manager Features

ShopSite Manager is ideal for businesses that have many products and offer promotions and other specials.

Unlimited items and pages

Templates can be customized

Can place “on sale”

Store search is possible

Bulk uploading supported

Power editing tools

Supports mobile

Order download into Quickbooks

Integrated with Google Analytics

$299.95/year

ShopSite Pro Features

ShopSite Pro is for businesses that have a vast product range and require extensive managing.

Coupons for sales and discount

Cross-sell

Gift certificates

Customer loyalty program

Barcode support

Tracking for associate program

Quantity and bulk order discounts

Facebook store

Inventory tracking

$539.95/year

You can actually save more when you subscribe to annual plans as compared to the quarterly plans. You will be able to save $60 which you can then use to add more to your inventory.

How to Install Shopping Cart

SimpleScripts make installation easier with just one click. The simple steps below are guide for installing the shopping cart.

Login to iPage.

Go to your control panel.

Click on Continue to SimpleScripts.

On the next page, there will be a notification about InstallCentral. Continue to the next page.

You will be presented with a list of applications that are possible for your website.

Go to e-commerce category and select the shopping cart that you prefer. The choices are as follows: (OpenCart, ZenCart, OSCommerce, Magento)

Click the Install button.

You will be directed to the next page where there are instructions on how to finish the installation including some information that you have to fill up.

Installation will take a few minutes depending on the type of application that you have installed.