We are looking for a decent shopping cart, along with the ability to accept credit cards/paypal.

we are a Canadian business for the Merchant account might have to be in Canada :)

What are the steps I need to get this started?

What shopping carts are good? (maybe free?)

And would it be easy to integrate a 'Model' 'Make' Year search into these shopping carts?

Thank you for your time.

What language are you using, ASP, PHP, etc???

If you are using PHP - check out www.oscommerce.com

If you are using ASP, check out: www.vpasp.com - I also have a more basic ASP shopping cart that I can send to you as well if you would like to review that, just let me know. It is free.

oscommerce is good

Thanks for the review peoples

I echo the views that users have experienced on osCommerce - excellent piece of software.

For the merchant account check out Paysystems or PSIGate. They are both based in Canada & should be able to help you out.

I recommend www.cubecart.com as a very nice shopping cart. It has all the major payment processors built right in, and is very nice looking and easy to use.

The author is pleasant, too.

Look at hotscripts