Shopping Carts

If you sell a number of products on your site (or even a few,) then using an Add to Cart button something like this:    

      Qty:  

will make things very much easier on your customers.

Personally, I like the PayPal shopping carts. They're quick and easy to setup on your site. Here's an example of one I set up on the site www.apathtowholeness.com

Click here to see an example of a PayPal Shopping Cart

Then again, some clients like to use an offline credit card machine in their office.  This can be done with a shopping cart, too, although it requires setting up secure CGI software on your site so that all the information collected will be available for you.

I setup such a cart for www.bestcrystals.com

Click here to see an example of an offline Shopping Cart

As you can see, it doesn't look much different than any other shopping cart -- it's just that the information collected goes straight to you.

And for that site, I also created software so that all the information collected can be printed as a nicely-formatted formal invoice.