Hidden Shopping Cart
- a hidden shopping cart is any shopping cart system that does not stay visible during the entire shopping process. Most CGI shopping carts and hosted shopping cart solutions would fit this category. The problem with hidden shopping carts is abandoned orders.
Holdback
- A portion of the revenue from a merchant's credit card transactions, held in
reserve by the merchant account provider to cover possible disputed charges,
chargeback fees, and other expenses. After a predetermined time, holdbacks are
turned over to the merchant. Note: Merchant account providers almost never pay
interest on holdbacks.
Hosted Shopping Cart
- A hosted shopping cart (also called a “hosted solution”) is any shopping cart that runs on a server different than your own. The advantage of a hosted shopping cart is that you will likely not have to do any installation or configuring of the shopping cart software. The disadvantage of a hosted shopping cart is having to rely on someone else’s server for your e-commerce livelihood as well as having another ongoing cost instead of a one time purchase price.
HTML (hypertext markup language)
- A set of codes that determine how a Web page will appear, including graphics,
links, and text characteristics. Other code sets that build on HTML include dHTML,
VRML, and XML.
HTTP
- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is a protocol which allows computers to communicate with each other.
HumanClick
- Real-time, chat based customer service. HumanClick lets you push your visitors HTML web pages, images and download files. Answer their frequently asked questions with pre-written canned answers, and track your site activity in real-time. HumanClick has been acquired by LivePerson.com.
Hyperlink
- On the Web or other hypertext systems, hyperlink is a synonym for both link and hypertext link. Possibly, the term originated because “link” was not felt to be specific enough. And it’s shorter than “hypertext link.”
Hypertext
- Hypertext is the organization of information units into connected associations that a user can choose to make. An instance of such an association is called a link or hypertext link. (And the highlighted word “link” in the previous sentence is an example of a hypertext link.) Hypertext was the main concept that led to the invention of the World Wide Web, which is, after all, nothing more (or less) than an enormous amount of information content connected by an enormous number of hypertext links.