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Shopping Carts
These applications typically provide a means of capturing a client's
payment information, but in the case of a credit card they rely on
the software module of the secure gateway provider, in conjunction
with the secure payment gateway, in order to conduct secure credit
card transactions online.
Some setup must be done in the HTML code of the website, and the
shopping cart software must be installed on the server which hosts
the site, or on the secure server which accepts sensitive ordering
information. E-shopping carts are usually implemented using HTTP
cookies or query strings. In most server based implementations
however, data related to the shopping cart is kept in the Session
object and is accessed and manipulated on the fly, as the user
selects different items from the cart. Later at the process of
commit, the information is accessed and an order is generated
against the selected item thus clearing the shopping cart.
Although the most simple shopping carts strictly allow for an item
to be added to a basket to start a checkout process (e.g. the free
PayPal shopping cart), most shopping cart software actually provides
additional features that an Internet merchant uses to fully manage
an online store. Data (products, categories, discounts, orders,
customers, etc.) is normally stored in a database and accessed in
real time by the software.
