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Its been a while since I’ve surveyed the various offerings for shopping carts. In this day and age it strikes me that the software that used to be called on to list some items and handle the checkout process has grown into what you might call a complete E_commerce system. Most carts these days handle a whole lot more. Everything from inventory management to work-flows. Its an interesting field. One cart that looks to be on top of things is BV Commerce. Here are a couple of screen-shots that show one of the more challenging aspects for any developer who wants to create this type of software – namely that products can be anything your customer wants to sell – and your system needs to make it possible for the customer to describe these products in a way thats meaningful for that shop. Of course the characteristics that are meaningful to one person frequently don’t mean squat to another one. So the commerce system needs to be able to accommodate catalogs and products that have varying attributes from store to store. Judging from the manual I came across, BV Commerce seems to do a good job with these features.