Shopping cart software is software to assist people to make purchases online. The software allows online shopping customers to place items in the cart. Upon checkout, the software typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (i.e. postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes, as applicable.

Standard & Poors Index for the stock market.

A key input to a firm's financial planning process. External sales forecasts are based on historical experience, statistical analysis, and consideration of various macroeconomic factors.

Search Engine Optimisation is the process of optimising a website to improve the ranking of a webpage, for a particular keyword, within a search engine. This is a very complicated and time consuming process as the method (or algorythm) by which search engines decide the relevance of a particular site to a keyword is constantly changing.

The first round of capital for a start-up business. Seed capital usually takes the structure of a loan or an investment in preferred stock or convertible bonds, although sometimes it is common stock.

Seed capital provides startup companies with the capital required for their initial development and growth.

Angel investors and early-stage venture capital funds often provide seed capital.

Establishes the conditions of the interactions between a company and a customer.

Occurs when a person sells stocks he or she does not yet own. Shares must be borrowed, before the sale, to make "good delivery" to the buyer. Eventually, the shares must be bought to close out the transaction. This technique is used when an investor believes the stock price will go down.

All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm - stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government.

Ownership of a corporation which is represented by shares which represent a piece of the corporation's assets and earnings.

Ownership of shares in a company resulting from work rather than investment of capital–usually founders receive "sweat equity".

A number of investors offering funds together as a group on a particular deal. A lead investor often coordinates such deals and represents the group’s members. Within the last few years, syndication among angel investors (an angel alliance) has become more common, enabling them to fund larger deals closer to those typifying a small venture capital fund.