The internet has opened up a new world for merchants enabling them to sell online to anyone. It has given more people the opportunity to open their own companies and sell products or services online, like it has for me. And to sell online, you need shopping cart software.

Ashop Commerce is a website that offers hosted shopping carts for your business. Taking credit cards is necessary for business today, so few people still carry cash and there’s so much liability involved in checks. They integrate with Paypal as well.

They list being affordable as one of their good reasons to choose their company. The lowest package start at $39.95, which gives you 50 products, 50mb space, and 1gb of bandwidth monthly. For a completely hosted an maintained script this price is fairly decent, however I’m not sure the bandwidth is sufficient. The next package up is almost double at $69.95, which is basically necessary because it offers adequate space and bandwidth, and more features.

This ecommerce software would be best suited for a company that does most of its sales offline and wants to expand their business to include an online shopping cart to generate more income.