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In an ecommerce website shopping cart plays a vital role. It is an important aspect of an online business because it helps people in making successful online purchase. A properly used shopping cart icon is powerful element which helps users to buy products as quickly as possible without any hassle. Therefore, in an ecommerce web design, it is very important to make sure that the shopping cart is well designed and well managed. Here are some guidelines which might be helpful in designing a shopping cart:

• Shopping cart icon must be attractive and visually appealing.
• Include both full page and mini shopping carts. A full page shopping cart is on which has a separate page of its own whereas a mini shopping cart is embedded in the side bar or page fold.
• Make checkout process simple and easy which may be either step by step or one page.
• Provide links from mini cart to full page cart.
• Make sure that check out and add to cart buttons are prominent and visible to the user.
• Use a clean and easily readable layout.
• Provide user with navigation options like “continue shopping” link etc and avoid too many user fields to fill.
• Provide help and visual support.
• Last but not least make sure to include a verification page.