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E-Commerce is a fancy word for an application that permits users to make online transactions - like buying sneakers or rare water snakes. There are a plethora of rivaling companies providing custom ecommerce design. Some ecommerce products are bought and others are available as open source that is free and open for customization, provided you have such talent available. Ecommerce customization projects should be evaluated equally between open-source and proprietary-code-based IT consultants.

Companies offering proprietary shopping cart implementations need to be considered for contracting right alongside those who are adept at modifying open source ecommerce options. Well-established, proprietary ecommerce solutions can offer the same stability and security seen in open source options. Specifics that will influence the selection of your best provider include inventory size, product type and marketing campaign type to name a few.

The security of online transactions is also a concern with regards to ecommerce. If you opt to have your shopping cart payment method integrated with systems like PayPal or Google Checkout, you will pay a price on each transaction (although there is an exception on Google Checkout transaction costs if you are doing Google Adwords Marketing). Getting set up directly with a credit-card processing controller (a familiar route is through Authorize.net) may eliminate per-transaction charges, though direct credit card processing services pose a different set of charges. It is important to become familiar with each company that you select to provide a quote for your ecommerce project; bidding should be from both ends of the spectrum discussed above to ensure that your online marketing needs are appropriately met. Also essential to ecommerce implementations, specifically if the transaction is processed by your server - not a third party’s - then secured sockets layer (SSL) registration of your domain becomes essential for both transaction security and the usability aspect the SSL also instills security from a usability perspective.