Electronic Shopping Cart

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What Does Electronic Shopping Cart Mean?

An electronic shopping cart is a software resource that functions as an interface for users that buy items from a business online. E-commerce websites use electronic shopping carts to facilitate purchasing by Web users.

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A broad range of customized designs with a variety of style and utility features are available for electronic shopping carts.

Techopedia Explains Electronic Shopping Cart

The visual interface is a key electronic shopping cart component. Electronic shopping cart designs are built for seamless integration with a website on a hosted platform, allowing users to view the shopping cart as an element of a larger online shopping environment. Included in the visual interface is the cart page, where a user may view selected items.

An electronic shopping cart also has a back end system that provides actual functionality by linking a customer to an array of product entries from a database. A user may access product pages, submit payment information and enter other details that allow a business to complete a transaction. Typically, an electronic shopping cart also includes tax and shipping calculations. Also, back end data is used in secure ways to prevent hacking.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.