10 Tools to boost your E-commerce business
Tools that help to build and grow your eCommerce business.
Symphero: Open Source eCommerce
An open-source e-commerce suite for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, supporting multiple databases (currently MySQL and PostgreSQL), distributed object storage (in beta), and advanced marketing and affiliate tracking capabilities.
Zen Cart E-Commerce Shopping Cart
Zen Cart is a PHP e-commerce shopping cart program. Built on a foundation of OScommerce GPL code, Zen Cart is an easy-to-setup and run online store. Zen Cart is for selling online. Zen Cart is completely customizable ecommerce.
Zen Cart runs from your own webserver, which means you are fully in control of all its features and capabilities.
XOS-Shop E-Commerce Shopping Cart
XOS-Shop is a powerful e-commerce shopping cart software, written in PHP/MySQL with Smarty3 template engine. XOS-Shop was originally based on osCommerce.
PrestaShop
PrestaShop is another robust, professional-grade e-Commerce solution that you can install, and use for free. On the back end, you'll use a full-featured back-office application to manage your online business (including inventory, orders, shipping, and customers) in real-time.
Magento Mass Importer
This project is an attempt to provide a product importer for magento that can handle several thousands of products at a reasonable pace compared to magento dataflow. it may evolve to a dataflow alternative as new features are implemented.
VirtueMart
VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla!. Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and can be used in typical PHP/MySQL environments.
Axis 0.8.7.2
Created with PHP, MySQL, ExtJS, jQuery and the Zend PHP framework, Axis has quickly established as a top of the line solution, even before reaching 1.x stable status.
Here are some key features of "Axis":
- Admin panel
- AJAX ExtJS-powered interface
- Easy installation script
- Magento-like structure
- Easy product catalog manager
- Organize products in categories
- Manage orders
- Manage customers
- Manage discounts
- Store statistics
- Themeable
- Extend functionality via modules
- Stock management
- Import/Export tools
- Guest checkout
- Shopping cart utility
- Backorders
Requir
ements:
- PHP 5.2.4 or higher
CF Shopkart 5.5 build 006
CF Shopkart is a shopping cart utility for the ColdFusion development stack, currently inactive, but mature enough to be used for online stores today.
The platform has seen lots of development and fares pretty well compared to current online store solutions.
Here are some key features of "CF Shopkart":
- Manage products
- Manage categories
- Manage customers
- Manage orders
- Manage shipping
- Manage whishlists
- Manage support tickets
- Manage taxes
- Manage payment gateways
- Blog module
- Built-in statistics module
- Comment moderation
- Product reviews
- Affiliate program management utilities
- Easy skin customization features
- WYSIWYG editing
- Newsletter system
- File manager
- Banning tool
Requirements:
- Adobe Coldfusion Server 8 and higher
Magento Community Edition 1.7.0.2 / 1.8.0.0 Alpha 1
It can create advanced stores in a few clicks, allowing the user to spend time on entering products, instead of customizing HTML code.
Not everyone in the company should have access to every facet of your store. That's why Magento features an easy-to-use Permissions Editor. Create users for all your employees then assign them to groups, eg. "Full Admin", "Customer Service", "Warehouse".
Creating a group allows to fully customize the access it provides, keeping permissions organized with a few simple clicks.
A commercial, more advanced version of Magento is also available here.
VamCart 0.9
VamCart allows normal users to easily install and run an online shop, without any technical knowledge.
The framework on which VamCart was built is CakePHP, which can be downlaoded from here.
Here are some key features of "VamCart":
- Easy installation.
- SEO - Search Engine Optimization.
- Unlimited categories and products.
- CakePHP, MVC, Smarty.
- Multilingual.
- Multi currency.
- Templatable.
- Automatic image resizing.
- Product reviews.
- Coupons.
- Payment methods.
- Shipping details.
- Modules.
- Admin panel.
- WYSIWYG page editing.