Online Store Revealed
Building an online store is getting easier these days. You don’t have to build it from scratch anymore because now there are many e-commerce solution laying around around the web. Like usual, we gather those that come with free tags.
osCommerce
“osCommerce Online Merchant is a complete online store solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend which can be easily installed and configured over a web-based installation procedure.”With over 8 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 14,000 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide.” You can see the full feature in here.
Digistore is based on the osCommerce engine. It features WYSIWYG editor that allows a user to see what the end result will look like while the interface or document is being created. You can use the WYSIWYG editor to create HTML code in a graphical interface. No programming knowledge is required.The store template, layout and colours can be modified from the administration control panel. No programming knowledge is required for basic customization of your store.View the full feature here.
Prestashop
PrestaShop is great alternative to osCommerce. There are even an php applet to import product and categories from oscommerce database to prestashop database. Look at the feature offered by Prestashop.
Magento
Magento is a robust e-commerce platform that can provide you many control over your store. Key features:
- Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed.
- Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application.
- flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories.
- One Click upgrade
- and many more
Übercart
Ubercart can fully integrates your online store with Drupal, a popular CMS. Ubercart was designed to take advantage of Drupal’s major core and contributed systems, providing users with shopping cart functionality that seamlessly integrates with other parts of your company or community website. One of the key strengths of Ubercart is its design that allows official and third party developers to add to or alter its features to accommodate virtually any e-commerce need. This means you’ll never have to change the source code to add new features, so you’ll have an easy upgrade path when the core gets improved or bugfixes are released.
Current online stores are leveraging Ubercart to meet the following e-commerce needs:
- Selling physical goods from various sized product catalogs.
- Selling file downloads (i.e. music, videos, software).
- Selling site access for members only websites, including automatic renewals and expiration of user access.
dashCommerce
If you are more familiar with ASP.NET than PHP, you can look at dashCommerce. It was developed with ASP.Net and use SQL Server for storing data. Check out their feature matrix.
FINAL WORD
I am sure there are many more e-commerce solution out there. If you want to add your choice, feel free to write about them in the comment section.
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