Tell Carty about your shop

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Estimated Monthly Revenue
How much in sales do you make each month?
Number of Products
How many products do you carry or intend to sell?
Average Customer Purchase
How much on average do your customers spend per transaction?
What is Carty for?
Carty is a tool that does the hard work of comparing prices of various hosted shopping cart platforms. All the tricky price calculations will be done for you at the click of a button!
What costs did you consider for the calculations?
We included fees paid to the shopping cart platform and fees needed to accept credit cards online (payment processing fees).
How do I use Carty?
Fill up the form above with as much information as possible and click the button. Poof! Carty will then show you the cheapest plans for each platform. Easy peasy.
What do payment processing fees include?
When shopping cart platforms provide credit card processing, the tool will use their fees to calculate cost. If the shopping cart platform doesn't have credit card processing, the tool will use estimated payment gateway and merchant account fees from Payleap.
Are there any other shopping cart platforms out there?
Yes there are many! Besides the platforms we compare (Volusion, Shopify, Magento Go and BigCommerce), there are many others such as Amazon Webstore, ProStores, Core Commerce, Zencart and Etsy that are out there. If you want to find out more, ZippyCart is a great resource on shopping carts that you can check out.
What are payment gateways and merchant accounts?
There is a great post by Chargify that explains how payment gateways and merchant accounts are involved in credit card processing. Read more here.
Why does Carty only compare 4 platforms?
We'd love to add as many platforms to our tool as possible and will get around to adding more when we can. In the meantime, if you really want us to add a platform, contact us to let us know about it.