A shopping cart is a programme that bolts on to your website or blog.  It enables you to sell products and services on your website or blog and receive payments for them automatically online.

It is normally used in conjunction with a payment processing service like PayPal. PayPal processes the credit card, debit card, or bank account details of the purchaser independently from your site, so there are no issues for you about handling and storing sensitive personal information.

This gives the your customers the peace of mind that their financial information is safe and it gives you less work to do.

Once bolted on to your site, your shopping cart programme allows you to set up prices, stock codes, descriptions, sizes, colours and other options for your products and services.

To place the items for sale on your website, you then simply select them from a drop-down menu. Of course you could just cut and paste the PayPal buttons straight into your pages, but that means that you have to set everything up each time you do so, which can become very time consuming.

My favourite shopping cart is a plug-in for WordPress (this website and blog is written in WordPress). It is called WordPress eStore. I like it so much because it makes everything very easy to use, install and maintain, but most of all (and unlike many other shopping carts), it allows you to sell large digital downloads like audio and video files and deliver them securely be e-mail with time limited links.

Having installed your shopping cart, you can then import your PayPal transactions directly into accounting software like KashFlow and virtually automate the entire sales process.

So if you have products or services that you could sell online, get yourself a shopping cart.

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Finally, accounting software designed for business people, not accountants!

The difference between KashFlow’s multiple award winning software and other accounting software products is simple: KashFlow was designed by small business owners, to be used by small business owners.

Everything else seems to be designed by accountants and for accountants and is full of confusing jargon and procedures. KashFlow was created specifically to deal with this problem and to provide something you can use with absolutely no training.

So if you’re too busy actually running your business to spend hours wading through confusing user manuals, trying to understand double entry book keeping, or calling the premium rate helpline every day, then this is for you.

Are you searching for accounting software that offers all of the following:

• Incredibly easy to use and easy to understand
• Available for you to try right now at no risk
• Is designed for non-accountants to use
• Offers free support and upgrades for life
• Incredibly popular with small businesses and start-ups

KashFlow works in tandem with your PayPal account. So now you can manage your accounts just as safely, securely and easily as receiving payments. KashFlow is the only accounting software with certified PayPal integration.

Sign up for your 60-day no committment FREE trial of KashFlow Accounting Software.

You don’t even need your credit card details!

And if you use the promotional code below, you’ll get a discount every month too.

Promotional Code: STEVEBUNYAN

(Note: At the time of writing this, the standard price is £15.99 per month and the discounted price is £14.99 per month. Also, using the above link will give you the discount automatically.)

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