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What is a Shopping Cart?

A shopping cart program allows visitors to your online shopping website to collect items in a "virtual" shopping cart which keeps track of the items as they are collected. The shopping cart system allows customers to view the contents of their shopping cart at any time and to add and delete items. When ready to check-out, the shopping cart will automatically calculate the subtotal, sales tax, shipping charges, total the order and lead the customer through the process of payment transfer to the merchants bank account.

In SalesCart, the collection of items can be things that you sell or things you give away, such as literature or brochures.

In more technical terms, a shopping cart is a complex transaction-processing system that tracks a particular client to a selected set of database items on the server. However, it is very simple to use.

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What is SalesCart?