Shopping Cart Software is software used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online.

Ecommerce website design is one of the more demanding types of new media design. As well as requiring attractive design, ecommerce software also requires certain standard features.

Online shopping should be made as simple as possible for your visitors, pages should be quick to load, and you should be able to quickly add and remove products and update information.

Shopping Cart Software incorporates a program that collects and stores shopping information in a website session, including items, quantities, taxes and shipping. Also collects payment billing information from the customer. Shopping cart software typically interfaces with third-party secure payment gateway software that resides on a different server for secure payment transactions.