I'm brand new to this shopping cart stuff, so please bear with me.
I started investigating the Agora cart because my web hosting provider offered it. Then I needed to select a gateway, so I looked at the list of gateways that Agora supported. The one that sounded like the least hassle for a "garage merchant" was 2CheckOut. But when I went to their site to see what they offered, it looked like they offered the whole shebang -- the merchandise database sits at their site, the shopping cart runs at their site, and checkout gets done at their site. Apparently, from everything I can see at their site, I need to maintain my own web site, but not my own shopping cart.
So now I'm wondering -- what does it MEAN to interface Agora to 2CheckOut? What does it buy me? Am I just complicating my life if I use Agora at all?