It is important to note that satisfaction could be further conceptualised in two broad ways. When satisfaction is seen as an emotional response to performance on specific attributes of a service encounter, it is conceptualised as trans- action specific satisfaction. Alternatively, when satisfaction is more likely to depend on factors that occur over repeated transactions, it is conceptualised as a cumulative outcome or overall satisfaction (Shankar et al., 2003). Hence, in an online context, when consumers make one time purchases from a new service provider, such as making a hotel reservation at a holiday resort, website satisfaction is likely to be transaction specific; whereas, in the case of repeating customers who have been buying from the same online service provider, satisfaction is likely to be a cumulative outcome. Chang (2005), Cronin and Taylor (1994), Parasuraman et al. (1988) and van Riel et al. (2004) consider overall satisfaction to be primarily a function of perceived service quality. Compared to transaction specific satisfaction, overall satisfaction reflects customers’ cumulative impression of a firm’s service performance. In turn, it may serve as a better predictor of customer loyalty.