Outsourced and Third-Party Order Handling Systems

by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, E-Commerce Consultant
Web Commerce Today, Issue 74, November 15, 2003

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These programs handle at least part of the transaction for the merchant. None require a merchant account or a payment gateway to do real-time credit card authorization. They are part of the service.

Third-party Handles Sale

Most of these shopping carts handle the transaction, but leave delivery of the product to the merchant (with the exception of Kagi and DigiBuy). Usually another website is needed where the merchant would paste in order buttons that activate these ordering systems.

2Checkout.com*	Directory URL		Cart URL
CCNow*	Directory URL		Cart URL
DigiBuy	Directory URL		Cart URL
iKobo Shopping Cart	Directory URL		Cart URL
Kagi*	Directory URL		Cart URL
PayPal Shopping Cart*	Directory URL		Cart URL
Paysystems.com	Directory URL		Cart URL

Outsourced E-Commerce

Here both the transaction and product fulfillment are outsourced. I haven't included fulfillment houses here, but nearly all of them provide this sort of service, too.

Aqueduct, Inc.	Directory URL		Cart URL
Digital River*	Directory URL		Cart URL
Emetrix	Directory URL		Cart URL
vStore	Directory URL		Cart URL

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