The most difficult part for someone in developing a website is adding in the shopping cart functionality so that customers can purchase products securely and easily from the site.

I am a co-partner in another website that sells a variety of products using shopping cart software. But it sometimes doesn't work properly. We have tried to solve the issue which seems to be related to interfaces between three parties - one of whom provides the shopping cart software - but all three point the finger of blame at each other! The problem for us is that it's our customers who experience delay, issues and problems and we can't seem to get the issue fixed.

Our experience shows that what we SHOULD have done was use a complete hosted service solution that included the shopping cart software along with everything else.

Well, I have found one. It's at Ashop.com. Here you can build your entire hosted ecommerce site quite cheaply; selecting the pricing option that suits your budget and traffic. Everything is outsourced to them so no worries about things going wrong, irate customers saying we charged their card 8 times and so on, backed up by great customer service - just in case problems do arise.

Why not pop over to their site and take advantage of their offer of a free test drive of their shopping cart software right now. It could save you a bunch of money and help improve your customer's experience...