Top 5 Open-Source E-commerce Platforms

Ecommerce applications are the best developers resources for setting up any kind of online shopping website to sell products & services. Open Source shopping carts are one of the best choices for the coders who want to get something to work with ease & less of efforts.

These are some of the best open-source e-commerce commonly used.

osCommerce -  It’s one of the oldest shopping cart .apps to be used. Completely multilingual, compatible with PHP 4 versions. It is SEO friendly & supports almost all payment methods.

Magento – This is very popular nowadays. Multilingual, supports local languages, multiple currencies. SEO friendly, has lot of marketing & promotional tools & can supports lot of payment gateways.

Zencart – It can be very easily installed & customized. Though it does not support many payment options as osCommerce, but serves quite well for physical product sites & file download sites.

PrestaShop – Very sleek interface & creating special deals as gift coupons, discounts, tag products, selling virtual goods and service is a breeze.

VirtueMart – This is a system for Mambo and Joomla. It hardly takes any time to integrate with Joomla. It has lot of features for people in terms of stock market to instant currency conversion.

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