E-commerce means any transaction over the internet.
In online marketing, a shopping cart is a piece of e-commerce software on a web server that allows visitors to an Internet site to select items for eventual purchase, analogous to the American English term âshopping cart.â In British English, it is generally known as a shopping basket, almost exclusively shortened on websites to âbasket.â
The software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase, described metaphorically as âplacing items in the shopping cartâ or âadd to cart.â Upon checkout, the software typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (i.e., postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes, as applicable