You mean mini cart on the products pages?
Yes, sorry about the confusion. A mini-cart in the shopping pages seems to be a growing trend, do you have any stats on this or have any knowledge as to whether or not this is a good thing or bad thing?
In Avactis you can add or remove mini-cart block rather easy, all is needed is to add or comment out this Tag: <?php MiniCart(); ?>
As for statistics, I can recommend to experiment with this feature.
Try to add mini-cart to the products pages, gather & compare sales statistics.
What about ecwid? I haven’t used it on a live site yet, just been testing it out myself and came here to see if anyone had used it. It is made by x-cart, free and looks smart. Just not sure about the future as it is so new but there doesn’t seem to be many other widget carts available!
[QUOTE=bhalverson;4556676]Is having a cart on the product page a nuissance to most or is it a benefit. I like to think it is a great benefit for the shopper, however I have heard otherwise. QUOTE]
It all depends upon what you’re trying
to accomplish.
Do you want to complete transaction
as quickly as possible and get that
customer off your site or do you want
to sell as much as you can to them?
You need to think about how smart
retailers do it … think offline too.
For example, when you’re in a department
store, do they set the aisles up so you can
easily get to the register and out the door?
Or do they make you wind through the store
and look at other items?
The technology is already there to have a
credit card scanner on every end cap to
make it faster and easier for you to buy and
leave.
Why don’t they do it?
A transactional website is a a short term
path to eventual failure. You need have a
real sales process that extracts every last
penny from your existing customers.
Remember, they’re buying from you because
they WANT to …so let them buy more from
you.
…one last point, did you ever notice a store
layout places the HOT sellers in back? Why
not in front, by the registers, so a person can
run in, grab that hot item, pay for it and be
on their way?
So think about a mini-cart and if it’s helping
sell more on your site or if it’s selling faster
and pushing customers out the door.
I use Coffee Cup Creator and Shopping Cart Designer Pro for all my shops and its really easy to use and very affordable.
http://www.coffeecup.com/software
Well I know what I’m doing when I get home <3
Excellent! I’m sure you will find it a great investment.
Not only great programs but free updates for life, top notch support and amazingly helpful forums.
I’ve noticed since changing over to the Coffee Cup Shopping Cart that my sales have really picked up…so I’m really happy with it.
Very good to know… thanks 
It seems that it supports only Paypal and Google checkout buttons as payment options
There is a new version coming out soon that will have more payment options.