PayPal provides a very popular free shopping cart system (they take a percentage of sales with no monthly fees). You are able to take credit cards without having to have a merchant account. Just create “Add to Cart” or “Buy Now” buttons and accept payments from credit cards as well as payments from PayPal balances. Another factor in choosing the PayPal shopping cart initially was its simplicity. Anyone with basic HTML skill will have no problem with adding it into a page. The process is quite simple. Log in to your PayPal account and click on “merchant tools” and then “shopping cart”. Complete the wizard and then copy and paste the code into your site where you would like the “Buy” button. Nothing could be easier.

There are several problems with using the PayPal shopping cart. First of all there are no statistics available. There is no easy way for you to compare your products’ sales. And there is no way to easily adjust for different shipping rates to different countries or areas of the U.S. There isn’t a cross sell mechanism, and there is no way to easily tell if a buyer is a new customer or a returning customer. And wouldn’t it be nice to compare this month’s sales to last? PayPal can’t do it for you.

Price: Free + transaction fee per sale

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If you are interested using Paypal to power your store, but don’t want to tinker with the html and integration, try PayPal Shop Maker to automatically build your store.

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