If you want to open an online store, maybe you can use various e-commerce software open-source popular following. From various choices, you can try and use that best suits your needs.

Following list:

1. Magento (free)

With more than 30,000 stores have been using Magento and have done deals to 25 million dollars, this is an e-commerce platform is the fastest growing. Built with the concept of open source, the leading user Magento such as Samsung, Nespresso and The North Face.



Magento comes with 2 choices: Enterprise Edition and Community Edition. Enterprise Edition has a very complete package, and sophisticated in increasing sales, including store credit, gift cards (virtual and physical), member only sales, clubs, multi-store (retail & wholesale) and full-time support. Community Edition, free download, commonly used by web developers who are experts and are not supported package of support, warranty and compensation.


2. osCommerce (free)

With the online store is ready to use, is enough to start your online business, you can manage and run an online store quickly and easily and cost-effective. If you want to be different among 228,700 other similar stores, you need to choose diatara 5800 add-on is available, some of them have to pay.

osCommerce is a very good software when viewed from the platform of free and open-source. But to modify your store quite complicated and needs expertise in the web.

3. Zen Cart (free)

Free and easy, Zen Cart already has a very comprehensive capabilities. In addition to the standard features you need. Zen Cart Newsletter Manager offers, discount coupons, quantity discount, gift certificate and the ability to pick the card which you received. There are so many contributor on this software with an average derived from osCommerce. But to look less neat admin.

4. X-Cart ($ 115)

X-cart is a shopping cart with a commercial open-source code, users are generally companies that have been fairly stable. X-Cart users get professional support in accordance with the budget they spend to buy this software.

X-Cart fast, pass the W3C and search engine friendly. Using the type of Smarty template system, so programmers to easily modify the appearance. On the other hand, although cheaper, you may still need to add the add-on that prices vary from $ 35 to $ 109. Technical Support is also not free.

5. CubeCart (free)

CubeCart 3, the standard edition can be used free of charge. Contains 3 complete with templates, customer order history, unlimited products, categories and images, multi-currency, and product search. CuberCart 4, worth more than $ 100, has the advantage in the SEO, skin selector for the visitors, courier tracking URLs, superior search product and the ability to add and edit order form from the administrator.

Both versions can be integrated with any website, and is suitable for products that already have online or preparing to open a shop. If you do not have knowledge of PHP and MySQL, it might be a challenge in CubeCart setup.

6. VirtueMart (free)

VirtueMart can not stand alone, this is ecommerce designed to run on Joomla! CMS (content management system). For a shopping cart, VirtueMart has complete package and has good design view. For shoppers can register a member, fill out the address and view order history with ease.

VirtueMart support multi language and currency and you can add products and product categories without any limit. You can search product, the user rate. In addition to this good, there are also some shortcomings including the lack of structured forums and some code that seems untidy.

7. Ubercart (free)

Just as VirtueMart, Ubercart also be integrated with a CMS, in this case is Drupal. In addition to selling the product functionality, Ubercart has a specialized form of files to sell products / digital product, event registration, website with member access to certain rights and event ticket.

There are a lot of module and themes are available for you to customize. In addition there are also various types of payments. If you are a lover of Drupal, Ubercart is the best option for you, but if you do not know about Drupal, the use of this software will be a bit confusing at the beginning.

8. Prestashop (free)

Approximately 25,000 online stores have been grateful to PrestaShop, which was launched in August 2007. This software uses Smarty template engine, combined with Ajax in his back-end. PrestaShop diataranya offer "free shipping", product image zoom, package tracking, PDF customer invoices, and cross-selling.

The best thing of PresaShop is a very attractive feature. Users can create an online store is beautiful and charming. Also PrestaShop have online support community and very active. But the main weakness is slow: the back-end is very slow to run and dimaintain.

9. OpenCart (free)

OpenCart shopping cart is easy to use and is increasingly popular, because of ease of use, friendly to search engines and are very good view. You can open an online store using free software and a complete feature.

10. Spree (free)

Spree, is an online store based Ruby on Rails, which is growing with increasing the role of the professional development team. There are quite a lot to offer for extension can be used according to your needs.

Using the Spree, you can arrange shipping, tax, discount, coupon your customers needs, besides a charming feature is the single page checkout. Also friendly to search engine and integration with Google Analytics. Ideal for small and medium companies, but not the best option for websites that have a high daily traffic.

11. WordPress-Ecommerce (free)

Perhaps many do not realize that WordPress can be used as an online store that has a plugin for it. WordPress e-Commerce plugin is by far the most popular plugin, which has didownlod more than half a million times.

Features for e-commerce you need, you can also customize the online store with the brand image. Integration with PayPal and Google Checkout, which almost all customers already know enough. Its weakness is the lack of functions like those of other e-commerce.

12.OXID eShop (free)

Like Magento and CubeCart, there are more than one type of OXID eShop. Enterprise Edition and Professional Edition (paid version), but the open source community forums Community Edition can you use for free.

Community Edition does not have the support (apart from the community forum) or warranty, but has the same features with the Professional Edition Version. Having a CMS integration, Powerful SEO, code neat and easy installation for the web developer.

13. Digistore (free)

OsCommerce based Digistore, so will instantly recognizable by anyone who ever used osCommerce platform. CMS full shape, very fast and easy to install and can be operated by people without programming education. There are a number of templates for clemency, but if there is paid to the template version with a better design, or you can also have a personal with a little extra cost. You can set and change the color, wide web, layout and template from the admin area and run a variety of advertising to promote your product.

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