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Re:Ask HN: What is a shopping cart and why wouldn't I just w... by karlrossmann on Friday October 29, 2010 @03:53PM (#1848758)
ah, ok, this make sense. So, the ecommerce programmer would write all of the catalog stuff, then hand it over to a 3rd party shopping cart for payment, coupons, taxes and shipping, etc.? is that that non-trivial part?
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Re:Ask HN: What is a shopping cart and why wouldn't I just w... by netcan on Saturday October 30, 2010 @10:05AM (#1850860)
- web based admin interface - Creating a browseable catalog - integration with various payment options - promotions, coupons, sales - shipping related features - CMS/website builder features

There are a lot of features an simple online shop might want to use. Cart is used as a general term

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