The shopping carts, inventory and fulfilment, ecommerce (or e-commerce) Perl CGI scripts listed on this page allow you to set up your own online shop in the fashion of Amazon.com's famous online bookshop. Typically, the scripts displays your products on your site, allow your visitors to select and place orders and transmits the orders to you. Some of the scripts are integrated with a particular credit card ordering system (indeed, some of them may be written by a particular credit card processing vendor trying to promote their ware). If you are running an online shop, you may also need to have some means of collecting credit card payments - see the article How to Collect Credit Card Payments on Your Website, which also lists some third party merchants that allow you to collect payments without having your own merchant account. Note that some (or perhaps all) of the merchants listed on that page may provide you with an ordering system that you can use free of charge, so you may not even need to install a shopping cart script if your needs aren't complicated.
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