Ecommerce Glossary F-K | SearchFit Shopping Cart Glossary

A multitude of shopping carts and shopping cart software for Ecommerce sites exist today and are readily available for download. Some are free, while others offer specialized features that are unique per site and charge for their services. Examples of free shopping carts include AgoraCart and CubeCart.

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Generally the same as Free Online Shopping Carts, Free Shopping Cart Software is a free version of software that allows online shopping carts on ecommerce websites to function. There are many companies that offer free shopping cart software as well as free online shopping carts.

Short for HyperText Markup Language, html is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on, as well as supplementing text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of tags, surrounded by angled brackets ("<" and ">"). HTML can include embedded code (such as JavaScript) as well, which can affect the behavior of Web processors and other HTML processors.

Worldwide and publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). The internet is essentially a network of networks that consists of smaller networks that carry various information and services such as email, online chat, file transfer, and the web pages of the World Wide Web (www). The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same. The Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc. In contrast, the web is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.

Also known as online advertising, internet advertising is a form of advertising that uses the Internet and World Wide Web (www) in order to deliver marketing messages and attract customers. Examples of online advertising include text links or ad links on search engines results pages, banner ads, social network advertising, advertising networks, and email marketing including email spam. One of the most common forms of online advertising is pay per click.

Also referred to as online marketing, internet advertising, emarketing (or e-Marketing), is the marketing of products or services over the Internet. When applied to the subset of website-based advertisement placements, Internet marketing is commonly referred to as Web Advertising (Webvertising) and/or Web Marketing. The Internet has brought many unique benefits to marketing, one of which being lower costs for the distribution of information and media to a global audience. The interactive nature of Internet Marketing, both in terms of providing instant response and eliciting a response, is a unique quality.

Another common term for an ecommerce business or an ecommerce website. Internet Shops typically sell retail items or general website improvement/enhancement features. They use shopping carts to help consumers buy products, goods, and services.

Also known as online shopping, Online shopping is the process in which consumers purchase products, goods, or services over the Internet. An online shop, ecommerce shop, internet shop, webshop, online store, or virtual store, etc. evokes the physical analogy of buying products and services from an actual store. Online stores liken online catalogs to standard mail order catalogs. Currently, most retail stores have web sites where products can purchased from. Online shopping is one of the fastest and convenient ways that consumers can receive products.

An Internet Shopping Cart is essentially software that makes a user able to purchase a product, good, or service from an ecommerce website. Similar to a cart or basket at a grocery store, "purchased" goods are kept in a shopping cart until the user is ready to check out and pay. There are many shopping carts available today that range from free to thousands of dollars, depending on the services a customer wants for their own ecommerce website.