10 Open Source (Free) eCommerce Platforms
Nowadays you can practically get anything you want online – starting with electronics, to clothes, to flight reservations and ending up with food delivery. Shopping has shifted online and there are tons of options for you, all you have to do is decide what to get and pay the money. If people were pretty concerned about spending money on something they can’t actually feel, today they go ahead and buy everything they want.
But what if you are the person from the other end that is selling the products? Of course you will need the products or services to be sold at first, a neat website that would further get a good promotion and a secure eCommerce platform of course. And when I say secure, I really mean it, because there are lots of scams on the Internet, and it’s money we’re talking about. You will need a user-friendly, transparent eCommerce platform that you can easily integrate in your website and make use of it.
We have saved you some time and collected 10 open source eCommerce platforms for you and your online business. Hope you will find them helpful.
Magento
osCommerce
CubeCart
VirtueMart
PrestaShop
Spree
Avactis
AgoraCart
WordPress e-Commerce Plugin
Zen Cart
Adrian
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wally
March 23, 2011 at 6:58 am
OSCommerce is easy to setup, but isn’t the least bit secure anymore, let alone maintained. Adding any special functionality takes careful knowledge of PHP, HTML and your web host. I wouldn’t suggest it anymore. Not that I’m an advocate for these platforms, but Ubercart on Drupal (or the newer DrupalCommerce) are especially common as well, although they require lots of configuration.
To Wonder
March 23, 2011 at 10:09 am
I’m working on a opensource e-commerce platform.. it’s called Thinkshop and it will be multilingual around april (right now it’s in dutch). It’s strongly based on wordpress-layout and the goal is to make it as admin-friendly as possible (what you do with the frontend is your business).
Here’s a demo:
http://www.getthinkshop.com/think/admin (user: demo, pass: thinkshop)
And you can fork me here on github:
https://github.com/towonder/Thinkshop
Jason
March 23, 2011 at 5:55 pm
We used to use oscommerce but got away from it, we use open cart, and can’t believe its not on this list. Its a great open source cart.
http://www.opencart.com
Amiguel
March 24, 2011 at 2:17 pm
And opencart….
newbie
April 17, 2011 at 1:16 pm
xt-commerce!
Sundeep Gupta
January 24, 2012 at 12:31 am
Great, post, I’m doing a comparison on e-commerce platforms but seeing how they each meet the needs of wholesalers and this listing was helpful, thank you.