Your ecommerce website is your online store. It is the place where you sell goods to the customer, putting them in direct contact with your brand and your products. But where is the best place for your ecommerce website? Before you can create your website, you have to choose an ecommerce platform. An ecommerce platform is the database where your ecommerce site is born. Take a look at some of your best options when it comes to ecommerce platforms:
Magento
It is the world's fastest growing ecommerce platform today. Magento comes with specific two flavors - the enterprise edition and the community edition. The community edition is free to download and it comes with no support, warranty or indemnification. This platform is used by thousands of online stores all over the world.
OsCommerce
This is another great Ecommerce platform which is the most widely used one when it comes to build an online store. This CMS is more than sufficient for setting up, running as well as managing an online store quickly, easily and cost-effectively. Though modification of the design of the online store is not that easy as much it should be.
WordPress
WordPress is actually known to be best blogging platform. But this CMS can also be used for an online store to get good results as it has got all necessary features required for building a good online web store.
ZenCart
ZenCart offers lots of extra features other than standard features like it has a newsletter manager, discount coupon, quantity discounts, gift certificates and the ability to select exactly which cards you accept.
OpenCart
This is another open ecommerce solution about which many people are not aware of though it offers some really good features compared to other solutions available.
X-Cart
X-cart is a commercial package with open source code. It is fast, W3C-complaint and search engine friendly. It uses Smarty template system which many programmers enjoy working with.
CubeCart
This is completely free to download and use. CubeCart comes with three different kinds of skins, History of customer order, unlimited products, categories and images, support of multiple currencies, and also product search function.
VirtueMart
This ecommerce solution is designed to be used along with Joomla CMS as it cannot be operated alone. VirtueMart supports multiple currencies and languages, and you can also add unlimited number of products and their categories.
UberCart
Like VirtueMart, this has to be also used with a CMS but in this case it has to be integrated with Drupal. The specialization of UberCart is in the sale of file downloads, event registrations, access to members only websites and even event tickets.
ZeusCart
This platform is designed by taking small and medium businesses in mind, by which users can make use of most of gift cards, SEO friendly URLs, email templates, tier-pricing and discounts because of which it is possible to reduce range for bulk orders. The best thing is its user interface which is very user friendly along with its rich and attractive design and features.
