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Question

I posted a question here concerning creating a shopping cart. It seems may be i am misusing the phrase "shopping cart" or may be the people that answered didn't read the post well.

I understand that open source softwares like "Magento, OpenCart, Prestashop etc.." are called shopping cart.

I also understand that paid hosting services like "Shopify, BigCommerce, 3dCart etc.." are also called shopping cart. Am i wrong?

Both the open source and the paid hosting services gives you the admin panel that you use to create your own shopping site.

I also understand that "Yii, CakePHP, Symphony, Zend etc.." are Frameworks for creating whatever you want.

Can someone help me to understand the difference between "shopping carts" and "web shops". For me i see them as synonyms(the same). Are there any difference.

Was i wrong the post. All the people that answered seem that am making something wrong. Am i using the terms wrongly?

Thank you.

Answer 1

A shopping cart is a module of a web shop used for holding items waiting to be ordered in a place where the user can keep track of them.

A web shop is....well Amazon or ebuyer or some other shopping site.

Magento is actually classed as eCommerce software which is umbrella term for what your looking at.