This document discusses and compares the top 5 e-commerce shopping cart software options. It begins by explaining the importance of shopping carts in converting site visitors to buyers. Some key findings are that 65% of occasional shoppers and 52% of frequent shoppers use carts as wish lists. The top 5 cart software mentioned are Magento, osCommerce, ZenCart, Shopify, and OpenCart. Each is described in 1-2 sentences highlighting their market share and distinctive features. The conclusion reiterates that the list provides information to help choose the best cart software.

1. Top 5 e-Commerce Shopping Cart
Software
By Shamit Khemka

2. Introduction
All the tricks and tips which are used in the
ecommerce store development and business
planning gets the ‘certificate’ of success in the
form of conversion. This makes it crucial to have
a cart which has the power to deliver the most.
Cart plays a very decisive role in turning visitors
into real time buyers.
A real-time survey conducted by Bronto Software
revels that 65% of occasional shoppers use cart
for future shopping, and 52% frequent shoppers
use it for same purpose.

3. This simple fact shows that it is not just meant for
instant purchase, but even used widely as wish list
vault. It has been seen that in those ecommerce
portals where the checkout process in simple and not
stretched up to three to four steps the selling rate is
quite healthy. Also, just like an offline shopping store
in our nearby market, checkout is the time for more
prompted selling.
Some of the biggest names in ecommerce industry
makes use of this feature and adds a panel
comprising of few small priced items with a tag like
‘you might want to buy these’. All these steps
ultimately lead to conversation and business
generation. If you too are planning for an ecommerce
software solutions support make no mistake in
finding the best.

4. What one seeks in a shopping cart?
Making sure that they get all they desire establishes the
ground stone of a successful venture. 44% of users leave
the cart just finding about the high shipping cost and this is
considered most dreadful among all. 14% leaves for the
absence of guest checkout option. 11% does not like
complicated checkout process. All these functionality and
planning part only gets implemented with fine names of
ecommerce and so one must know them.
In next slides, we will show top 5 ecommerce shopping cart
software

5. Magento
With 11.93% of market share when it comes to shopping cart
Magento is the ultimate name. This data has been revealed
by builtwith and Measured. In between Sep 14 to Feb 15 it
has seen a 5% overall growth rate in respect to user base.
It has the highest number of extension of around 6400
among all ecommerce platforms. Customization wise this is
the most favored name among business owners.

6. osCommerce
osCommerce covers 7.38% of market share regarding
shopping cart and has its own line of exclusive offering.
One gets the feasibility of starting his very own self-hosted
online store and that too for free. The backend is really
simple and the loading time is quite optimized.

7. ZenCart
Zen Cart is also a very popular name in this hood and comes
free. It includes all the features for mass selling and store
management. Best suited for PHP conversant developers!
Rich community presence for interaction about the platform
functionality and customization.

8. Shopify
In between Sep 14 to Feb 15 it has seen a 7% overall growth
rate in respect to user base. In Google trends off late
shopify is just behind Magento in the interest meter, and
this tells about its growing popularity. It has huge number of
cross platform themes along with CMS and integral
blogging platform.

9. OpenCart
OpenCart is known best for its search-engine friendliness and
finely tuned interface. One can integrate more than twenty
payment gateways using it.

10. Conclusion
This small list highlighting of some of the big names in the
domain of shopping cart! With preceding information, the
list with the specific strengths of each software/technology
highlighted, will hopefully help you in deciding upon the
best available option.

11. Thank you for Watching it!