No matter what, you still have to pay fees for credit cards and such. Also, with free shopping carts, you get next to no assistance when you have a problem. You just have to post in a forum and hope someone helps you out.

Hi I build zencart driven sites for a living and find it to be the best ecommerce software available.
the “catch” so to speak is the design work and configuring. This is what i charge to do. but you can do it all yourself it just take time to learn the css / php etc.
if you would like more info feel free to contact me admin at zencartassist dot com dot au

you should try using pharaohcart.com its not free but very affordable. ecommerce sites can be tricky to set up. and when you use free carts it takes much skill.

pharaohcart.com has excellent support team and proffesional web designers that will set up your cart ssl certificate and help you get set up with a merchant account. all free of charge. its best to let the proffesionals handle it so you get a proffesional store open. you don’t want a half done site becouse your customers will take notice.

there shopping cart is very easy to use and is web based inside your browser. you can customize you entire store add products, email, seo and more all through there powerful control panel.

its very affordable. they charge on a one time set up fee. they allow you to choose from thousands of templates. they will customize it for you add your logos graphics, special featuers ect at no charge!

you can check out a sample store on there site to take a look at all of its powerful featues.

i hope this helps. i have like 7 stores hosted with them and i would use another service! perfect A+++++

I found. it is a free shopping cart and it hosts a site for you to use. 1freecart also generates a code that you can copy and paste to place all your items onto a different site and it still accesses your shopping cart. Easy to use too. Hope this helps