Yahoo! Merchant Starter from Yahoo! Inc. is a fine package for anyone ready to start a custom eCommerce site fast. Yahoo! provides tools to build your site, host your site, and has a secure shopping cart ready for you to gather customer information. They also have partners arranged to get you a merchant account quickly. And Yahoo! has one of the finest website builders available; with this software you can completely customize how your website looks using drag-and-drop tools.
Yahoo Merchant Website: Click here to visit website

Price:
Starter Package $39.95/month + 1.5% transaction fee
Standard Package $129.95/month + 1.0% transaction fee
Professional Package $299.95/month + 0.75% transaction fee

There is no gateway fee for Yahoo! Merchant Solutions customers.
Free 10 day test drive

Example Sites:
Organic Sleep Products
Lance Armstrong Foundation
Ben & Jerry’s/

Contact Yahoo Small Business:
Phone: 866-781-9246

Yahoo Merchant Promo Code: 35% off Yahoo! Merchant Solutions packages + no setup fee (save $50)

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

Featured Sites:
Lotion Source
The White Aisle

Contact Paypal:
CALL TOLL-FREE 1-888-221-1161

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.

Paypal Website: Click here to visit website

Shopify is considered one of the easiest to use hosted shopping carts on the web. It was made with the most novice user in mind, but also has features for more experienced users.
Price: $24/month + 2% per transaction
Payment Options: Paypal, Checkout and many credit card processors

The following sites use Shopify for their e-commerce sites:
Amnesty International
The Brewery Shop
Baby Melons

Website: Click here to visit Shopify

Contact Shopify:
1-866-704-0252
Jaded Pixel / Shopify
Suite 200 – 190 Maclaren Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
email: scott (at) jadedpixel (dot) com

For further reading:
Shopify: Great for simple e-commerce

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