By In shopping carts, there is always a requirement of database so that one can integrate it with required information related to the products. What one has to do is to create a database with caution and back up it on regular basis.
In setting up shopping cart what is to do on priority basis it to review your requirements and make proper demographics and then set your field names. In order how to do that. It’s very simple to do just make an excel spread sheet using field names which suit your products. We asserted to use excel because it can help you in sorting operations or later your programmer can call this excel sheet in some RDBMS. So there is no big issued in using it.
So just populate your worksheet with your product attributed. If you feel this work is time consuming then check some consultancies on the net. There are various vendors, who are already capable to furnish your requirement. In low economic countries, there product uploading services can be done at affordable rates, which not only help in cost cutting infrastructure, HR and other miscellaneous charges.