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wow, thanks Matt. This is the answer i have been waiting for. this is my misunderstanding. i get it now, it's not that a basic shopping cart isn't trivial, it's that it quickly exp…

ah, ok, this make sense. So, the ecommerce programmer would write all of the catalog stuff, then hand it over to a 3rd party shopping cart for payment, coupons, taxes and shipping,…

Because I'm obviously missing something. What else is a shopping cart besides a session associated table?

See, this is what I don't understand. Building a shopping cart is like 15 minutes of work if I'm already building my own e-commerce site, isn't it? Are 3rd party shopping carts for…

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Hi HN- I'm having trouble understanding a very basic concept. I build an online store, and since I'm a programmer, I let the user collect their items in a table associated with the…