Choosing a Shopping Cart for Online Store

Best eCommerce Solutions


If you're eager to develop your online you will surely need to decide a platform for your future website. You should choose thoroughly and to explore all pros and cons of each system. Before choosing a shopping cart you should decite what features do you want your shop to have and what shop it would be. Also you should tale into account the level of your knowledge in web design. If you are an amateur you shopuld choose more user-friendly one.

In this post I would like to tell you about several the most popular( as for me) eCommerce solutions for building an online store.

osCommerce System
is one of the oldest eCommerce engines. A lot of systems created on the basis of osCommerce.
osCommerce - is the engine for online store, which can be installed on any web server with support ofr PHP and MySQL. osCommerce - a free software with GNU General Public License.
In osCommerce is a great community, which includes more than 140,000 participants. Due to this today there is more than 4000 different modules for this engine, which allow you to modify and complement the functions of the store in a variety of ways. To date, there are 14,063 online shop (only officially registered in the catalog), working on the basis of osCommerce.

Virtuemart System
is the successor to the phpShop expansion for mambo cms (ancestor of Joomla). It fits perfectly into the architecture of Joomla 1.0, and since the first release it constantly updates. VirtueMart is also extensible, so it is functional and assemblies for various projects which can be applied are different.
Virtuemart is a shopping cart extention for world-famous Joomla! Content Management System. It is integrated with Joomla! It is a free open source shopping cart solution. Not bad, I think. It has some disadvantages, but the main advantage is ease of use.

ZenCart System
is the engine for online shop.
The distinguishing feature of it is - open source and free distribution.
It incorporates the best of its predecessors: osCommerce, SEC and Loaded. A paid version is also included. THis shopping cart is extremely userfriendly, because it was created for users more than for developers.

PrestaShop System
is a eCommerce solution for online store. It is available under the Open Software License. PrestaShop gains in ease of installation and development. This engine is light that gives it greater speed andstability in work.

Magento System
- a unique software product that is distributed free. It is a universal solution for the creation of any online store. Magento currently has more than 60,000 customers, software has been downloaded 1.5 million times as of January 2010.
Magento is convenient and administration of Internet shop, and visitors. Among its advantages - extremely fast deployment, a large number of additional functional modules. Magento is distributed under license from OSL 3.0.
Even among the advantages of Magento - easy to manage all content online store, as information and database products.
Magento is focused on working with content, addressing marketing problems and interacting with customers.

TomatoCart System
- is an independent offshoot of the project osCommerce, based on the idea that Web applications are becoming more and more sophisticated,modern Web 2.0 technologies such as Ajax and Rich Internet Applications offer a significant improvement of usability and makes the visitor's interaction with Web interfaces faster and more efficiently.

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