Answers to common questions about Early Impact and its ecommerce solutions

Frequently asked questions about electronic commerce, ProductCart, and Early Impact

Commonly asked questions about Early Impact, SubscriptionBridge, and ProductCart®.

Is ProductCart a product or a service?
ProductCart is a product. You buy a license and host it wherever you want (and save a bunch compared to hosted ecommerce solutions). You have access to the code, so you can also customize it.
There's a million shopping carts out there. Why should I use ProductCart?
ProductCart is one of the very best small business ecommerce systems available today. It's robust, feature-rich, and secure (PA-DSS validated). It's been powering successful online stores for over 9 years. See this article for more.
Does ProductCart work with SubscriptionBridge?
Yes, you can use them together to have an online store that sells both subscriptions and one-time purchase items. In fact, that's exactly what we do on our own software store, and it works great. Learn more.
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What exactly is SubscriptionBridge?
It's a set of subscription management tools for recurring payment systems like Authorize.net Automated Recurring Billing and PayPal Recurring Payments. It provides lots of useful features that help you manage subscriptions.
Why would I need it?
Because these robust recurring payment systems do their job just fine, but they don't provide you with the tools you need to solve the #1 problem of a subscription-based business: reducing the cost of maintaining, updating, editing those subscriptions over time. Take a closer look at its features.
How did you come up with it?
Many ecommerce merchants, including ourselves, sell both subscriptions and non-recurring billing products. So we decided to add features to our shopping cart software to do that. In the end, it made more sense separating the two. More on the story behind SubscriptionBridge.
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