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How do you choose the right shopping cart software when building an e-commerce website? If you choose incorrectly you might need to rebuild your website in the future. David shares tips on how to pick the right shopping cart software for your business.

Do you want to understand how e-commerce works? David explains both the technical components, and also the most important business considerations when building an e-commerce business.

Out of the box WordPress is not e-commerce capable. It needs special technology to enable e-commerce capability.

David breaks down the current interchange rates for e-commerce merchants in Canada for 2023. These figures were taken directly from the Visa and Mastercard Canada interchange tables. These interchange rates apply not just to e-commerce transactions but also virtual terminal and other card-not-present type transactions.

If you're building an e-commerce website, you don't want to spend all that money and have it not work. That can actually be a legitimate fear too, because if your project is not well planned you could run into issues. In this video David explains the concept of shopping cart compatibility, and how the e-commerce software that runs on your website connects to your payment gateway.

E-commerce shopping cart software is what keeps track of the things that customers want to buy as they browse your website. In this discussion we explain what it is, and the things to be aware of when selecting a shopping cart software platform for your business.