Online Shopping Cart Price Comparison Tool

Being involved in the e-commerce industry, we’re often asked by friends and customers for online shopping cart recommendations. If there happened to be a shopping cart that automagically addressed everyone’s needs, we would refer it immediately. But, if you think about it for a moment, you’ll realize that there’s a lot more detail needed before a recommendation can be made.

Which shopping cart you should use depends on the particular situation you’re in. Do you sell products at high volumes and low prices? How much do your customers spend each time they shop at your store? The cost of running an online store can vary largely depending on your answers to these questions and more.

Not being able to resist a good problem, we thought it’d be fun to take a crack at this to see if we could simplify the process of comparing shopping carts. After some in-depth research and late-night pots of coffee, Carty, our shopping cart price comparison tool, was born!

Introducing Carty

Carty is a friendly tool that does the tricky shopping cart platform price calculations for you. It takes in information about your online store, determines the cheapest plan for each platform and spits out a side-by-side breakdown of the costs in each platform.

Carty currently compares 4 platforms (Volusion, Shopify, Bigcommerce and Magento Go). We’ll be adding more platforms when we can, but feel free to contact us if you’d like a specific platform to be included.

Carty also has a helpful FAQ about how it works and a brief rundown of the various fees incurred when running an online store. There are also some links to resources that we thought might be useful.

So go ahead and get your hands dirty with Carty. Find out how much your shopping cart is really charging you and how it affects your margins.  And hopefully, it’ll make choosing between shopping cart platforms just that much easier.