This GoDaddy shopping cart review includes information on GoDaddy's Quick Shopping Cart. GoDaddy's Quick Shopping Cart is available in three plan, keep reading for details on the distinctive features offered with GoDaddy's Quick Shopping Cart.

GoDaddy - known for being a source of domain names and web hosting - also offers the Quick Shopping Cart®, voted "Most Popular Shopping Cart" in the Practical eCommerce 2009 survey. The Quick Shopping Cart® has many features and three plans: Economy Edition, Deluxe Edition, and Premium Edition. This article compares and contrasts the three shopping cart plans that GoDaddy offers.

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Features of All GoDaddy Shopping Cart Plans

Some features are shared in common by all GoDaddy Shopping Cart plans.

• Store Design

With any Quick Shopping Cart® plan, you will receive access to everything you need to design and set up your store, with room for customization. Supplied elements include 800 templates from professional designers and 10 page layouts with 2 to 4 columns, with pre-built pages to get you started for your About Us, Contact Us, and Terms & Conditions pages. The special WebSite Tonight feature allows for fast set-up with any of 150 templates.

Customization possibilities include adding your logo and images that represent your brand and products (zoomable images, too), choosing the font and your color scheme including use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and creating your own favicon, the website icon that will appear along with your URL in a browser address bar and in users bookmarks and favorites lists.

• Store Building

Quick Shopping Cart® stores have a step-by-step setup that allows you to establish sales tax for each state, shipping options with a range of carriers (including the post office, UPS, FedEx, and local carriers), upload product images an create product categories, and configure the built in product search feature.

• Store Management and Security

Each Quick Shopping Cart® comes with free hosting and a guarantee of 99.9% uptime. An integrated dashboard allows users to work with product supply (backordered, discontinued, in-stock items), keep track of inventory, and view customer information (registrations, passwords, invoices, emails, profiles, and orders). You can print, search, sort, and view orders, as well as fulfill and track them. Tax and shipping calculators are built in, and you can generate reports to track order, revenue, and conversions in a variety of time periods. GoDaddy provides 24/7/365 customer support, and SSL Certificate-enabled sites.

• Selling Online

The Quick Shopping Cart® is amenable to selling either physical products or digital downloads. You have the ability to offer your merchandise in a variety of ways, including:

• cross-selling
• up-selling
• product bundles at a discount
• establishing "featured" products
• offering and redeeming coupons
• using promotional codes so that you can analyze responses
• process credit cards
• process online orders with no percentage payment to GoDaddy
• accept phone, mail, and fax orders
• opt-in for customers at check-out
• use Authorized.net, Merchant Services, PayPal, PayPal Express, and VeloCT payment gateways
• ship to the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and selected countries in South America, Europe, and Asia.
• process in real time
• list your store on eBay®
• integrate Google Product Search®
• import data from Microsoft® Excel files

In addition, you receive credits for Google® AdWords®, Facebook® Ads, and Microsoft® adCenter to market your store, as well as the ability to integrate affiliate marketing.

What's Distinctive in the Three Quick Shopping Cart® Options?

The three shopping cart options are distinguished by the size of their product catalogs, the amount of disk space, the Bandwidth they offer - which, obviously, lead to differences in price - and the freebies that come with each offer.

The GoDaddy Economy Edition offers an opportunity to sell 20 products. It comes with 50 MB of Disk Space and 1 GB Bandwidth per month. Freebies include a $25 credit with Google® AdWords® and $50 credits for both Microsoft® adCenter and Facebook® Ad. Paid by the month, the cost is $9.99; paid for 3 years at a time, it comes to $8.49/month.

The Deluxe Edition offers an opportunity to sell 100 products. It comes with 1 GB of Disk Space and 50 GB Bandwidth per month, as well as QuickBooks® integration. Freebies include QuickBooks® Simple Start, 2 free months of a Merchant Service Account for Inuit QuickBooks, a $50 credit for both Google® AdWords® and Facebook® Ad and a $100 credit for Microsoft® adCenter. Paid by the month, the cost is $29.99; paid for 3 years at a time, it comes to $25.49/month.

The Premium Edition offers an opportunity to sell an unlimited number of products. It comes with 2 GB of Disk Space and 100 GB Bandwidth per month, as well as QuickBooks® integration. Freebies include QuickBooks® Simple Start, 2 free months of a Merchant Service Account for Inuit QuickBooks, a $50 credit for both Google® AdWords® and Facebook® Ad and a $200 credit for Microsoft® adCenter. Paid by the month, the cost is $49.99; paid for 3 years at a time, it comes to $42.49/month.

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