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Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
Are you a “mom and pop” business with some retail products to sell? If so, chances are that you have been looking for a secure shopping cart solution that is easy to use.
If you are not a programmer, not familiar with CGI or php, do not have a security certificate … and don’t want to spend hours of time trying to figure out how to create a shopping cart, one of the best shopping cart solutions comes from Mals-E.com.
You will need to have your own merchant account if you want to use the cart to accept credit cards. If you don’t have a merchant account, it will work with other services such as PayPal and WorldPay.
Admittedly, the problem with using a free service is that if the site goes down, you are SOL. There is nothing you can do about it except migrate to a paid service where you have some recourse.
However, some businesses that I have referred to Mals-E.com have used the service for years and have not experienced a problem. A small retailer I know, PuebloSouthwest, has a few dozen products that they sell using Mals-E.com. They’re approaching 10 years of using the service and as far as I know, have not had a single problem, so that’s a pretty good testament.
What is nice about Mals-E.com is that you can configure products with different options. For instance, you can sell a t-shirt in black, red, blue or white, in small, medium and large sizes. You can also configure the site to calculate shipping and taxes.
There are tutorials that you can access every step of the way.
You can use the cart to accept checks, any form of credit card, PayPal and even money orders.
Mals-E.com’s cart configuration will also allow you to modify the look and feel of your cart so that it matches your website. You can change the background, font sizes and colors, and add your own graphics.
You can also set up an affiliate program using a Mals-E.com shopping cart. If you want to offer special discounts to your subscribers, you can easily code a discount code into the cart and then tell your subscribers what the code is. For instance, you can create a code called “123savetoday,” and then when your subscribers buy, they enter the code “123savetoday” into the cart and get a 10% discount or whatever other discount you specify.
There are no size limitations. Sell 15,000,000 products if you want! It runs off of a script, so except for the appearance of your cart, your product images and descriptions are not remotely hosted.
When you are just starting out with an online store, Mals-E.com offers a perfect solution for selling your products. It’s so good that it works for people who are seasoned online marketers, too!
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this script is really good cause it is free .. but i think there is lot of other free cart script available ..
That sounds like a good website. Though “e-malling” is relatively new to many people, the site has a lot of potential. And hopefully it can be developed further.
Btw, what does SOL mean?
It is very useful information.We can use Males-E.com as shopping cart solutions.