MBA529 What is a Shopping Cart and Do You Need One?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Many of us think that using a shopping cart on our business website is a must, but that's not always the case. How do we know if we need one? In the next 10 minutes, we'll share with you when we have to use it and what tools we recommend you to use depending on your product! Let's go ahead and listen now!

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0:16.1	Heyo! Welcome to the $100 RBA Show, the business podcast that gives you specific tactical strategies to help your business today with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world.
0:21.4	I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar Zenholm. I'm also the
0:25.2	co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.
0:30.0	Check out all our freebies or free, or free guides over at 100 MBA.net all for you so you can get started with your business.
0:39.0	In today's episode, you will learn what is a shopping car and why do you need one. There's this
0:45.5	concept of a shopping car on a website that makes transactions that sells things.
0:50.9	Does your website need one? Do you need one to sell products?
0:54.2	And if so, what do I recommend? This is what we're going to be talking about today.
0:58.4	This is a little bit of a technical episode, but it may save you a lot of headaches because a lot of people
1:04.5	sometimes think they need something when they don't or they need something and
1:09.0	they don't have it and they use the wrong product for it and so in about 10 minutes I may save you a whole lot of
1:14.6	money in time. So let's get into it guys. Let's get down to business.
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1:51.7	So what exactly is a shopping car?
1:54.7	Basically a shopping car is a piece of software that acts as an online store's catalog and it's part
2:00.9	of the ordering process for anybody who's checking out or buying
2:04.2	something on your site. So typically a shopping car is a interface between
2:09.1	your company's website and your payment processor whether that's PayPal Stripe, Braintree, whatever you choose.
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