Big Cartel - Easy to use Online Stores

If you are an artist attempting to market your product, you're probably familiar with the frustrations of trying to create your own store online. Big Cartel.com offers an easy way of getting your store up and running without a lot of the hassles that other shopping cart sites present. The site was founded on the assumption that these bigger sites are too complicated for anyone besides larger businesses who have the time and resources available to set up an online store. With that in mind, Big Cartel caters more to the individual (be it a musician, artist, or clothing producer) by providing a simple interface with easy-to-understand options. Sellers can manage their stores from any computer to keep track of their inventory and current stats, and can edit their store's appearance at any time with the user-friendly controls. All online transactions are done through PayPal, and they offer a completely free plan as well as monthly paid plans with expanded features.

"Until now, shopping cart services have been designed for people trying to be the next "Internet Superstore". Thousands of useless features, awful designs, impossible to use - assuming you were even able to get it setup in the first place. Ugh no thanks.

Because of this, people with simpler needs like bands, designers and crafters turned to PayPal Buy Now buttons. While much easier to use, these also have their downside. You need to do all the code yourself, maintaining your store is tedious and time consuming and the shopping process is clunky by going back and forth with PayPal.

Big Cartel provides a simple solution to this problem. Our stores are beautifully designed, have only the features you'll actually use, and best of all, they only take a few minutes to setup. Even faster than a Buy Now button!"

Big Cartel could be really helpful for those who don't have the time or don't want to bother with setting up an online store on a larger site. It's extremely easy to create, modify, and manage your store, and the sleek interface serves as a constant reminder that you're dealing with other artists and not some huge faceless corporation.

Depending on how many products you're looking to sell, this service could be more expensive than creating a store on Ebay or a similar site. It would also be nice of the site had more a of a community feel so that transactions are not so blind; do they plan on adding a social networking aspect?