Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The TOP 10 FREE eCommerce Software for your business needs.

Many people loves FREE stuff, actually all of us loves FREE stuff, and the other thing that many businessmen loves and very thankful of are the FREE software for their business needs.

eCommerce solution is a huge investment for businessmen and since we have now an open-source software available for us, we can cut it out and just do business.

Here I listed below are the 10 of the best open-source eCommerce software that you can use for your online shops and with a simple tweak to the codes you can redesign your site to meet your preference. If you are now worried on buying a software to modify the codes, not to worries, because open-source software also uses open-source development programming language, which is also available for FREE on the net. Hope you like this post!!

The TOP 10 FREE eCommerce Software:
  • osCommerce osCommerce stands for “open source Commerce”. It is written in PHP and has a GNU general public license. Any server with PHP and MySQL installed can make use of osCommerce. osCommerce is widely regarded as the best free open source e-commerce software. It is used by a huge number of people and is known to provide strong web applications so much, so that other competitor softwares use parts of osCommerce. I personally recommend this software if you will build your site from ground.
  • Zen Cart Zen Cart is written in PHP as well and has a GNU general public license. Zen Cart works with MySQL database and HTML modules. Help and troubleshooting is available in many languages. Zen Cart was derived from osCommerce and apart from the looks; Zen Cart’s architecture has seen a major change from osCommerce. There are newly added functionalities like Gift Certificates, Coupons and Vouchers. Selling downloadable files also has been made possible with Zen Cart.
  • PrestaShop PrestaShop is written in PHP and comes under the OSL (Open Software License) version 3 license. Igor Schlumberger and Bruno Lévêque of Paris started PrestaShop.
    It makes use of the Ajax interface and is considered to be easier and more efficient as compared to Magento.
  • OpenCart OpenCart is written in PHP and has a GNU general public license. It is known to have a very easy and clean interface that looks great. It has a lot of features and a search engine friendly which is one of its advantage.
  • Magento Magento is written in PHP and has an OSL version 3 and AFL (Academic Free License) version 3 license. Varien built Magento by further developing the Zend Framework. Magento is considered to be the hottest new ecommerce software is growing very fast on the internet. It has a lot of features that can be considered “enterprise grade” as compared to “web grade”. Magento gives merchants a higher level of control on settings and customizations for user experience, content and features provided by their online shops.
  • StoreSprite StoreSprite is written in PHP and has a Freeware License which makes it free to be downloaded, installed and used. Its most important feature is the simple scripting.
  • AgoraCart AgoraCart allows for integration of existing web design as well as use of pre-defined templates. It provides flexibility of design through use of CSS. The developers have also created AgoraScript as their own scripting language.
  • X-Cart X-Cart is written in PHP and is known to have great ease of modification. It uses MySQL database and provides CSS layout. Store owners can also attach Meta tags to make their stores appear better in search engines.
  • Ubercart Ubercart is written in PHP and has a GNU general public license. It requires PHP and MySQL to work and is available as a plugin for Drupal. Drupal is also a FREE framework software same as Wordpress. I recommend Ubercart if your web site is running under Drupal framework
  • WP e-commerce
    Wordpress, the popular blog and CMS site also provides its own ecommerce shopping cart – "WP e-commerce". It is the easy and fully featured shopping cart plugin of choice for Wordpress users. I recommend this plugin for web site which uses Wordpress as their framework.

Please leave a comment if you like it!! Thank you for reading this post.
Posted by Unknown at 2:35 PM

6 comments:

  1. DropshipperNovember 11, 2011 at 2:02 PM

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  2. UnknownNovember 11, 2011 at 5:42 PM

    thank you for the compliment! really appreciate it!! thanks again!

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  3. webworldJanuary 16, 2012 at 3:17 PM

    Thanks for sharing this information.

    ecommerce cart software

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  4. UnknownJanuary 16, 2012 at 3:22 PM

    no worries. i'm glad that you like the post. thanks!

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  5. Madhuri NaiduJanuary 17, 2012 at 1:06 PM

    The E-Commerce Software that you have provided are quite helpful to know the best among them.

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  6. UnknownJanuary 20, 2012 at 9:48 AM

    Appreciate the compliment Madhuri! Thanks!

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