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10 Open-source eCommerce platforms

Building an eCommerce platform for businesses has become easier over the years. Through this article, we talk about 10 free e-commerce tools you can use to build one

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Rajkumar Maurya
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Building an eCommerce platform for businesses has become easier over the years. Through this article, we talk about 10 free eCommerce tools you can use to build one

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Open-source eCommerce platforms offer many advantages for small businesses. A merchant can also develop his own eCommerce platform by using Open-source solutions. The support option in the open source platforms is limited as compared to the premium or proprietary e-commerce platforms. But that doesn’t mean open-source offers nothing. Open source not only minimizes the cost of building your e-commerce portal but also offers customizability, scalability, and communities of developers to assist new merchants.

Choosing the right Opensource platform for your e-commerce business, where an online transaction is the most important part might be difficult. So, here is a list of ten open source e-commerce platforms that let you run all business transactions online. They also let you create SEO friendly URLs, gift cards, offer discounts, create email templates and much more…

Magento Community Edition

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Magento Community Edition is the free and open source version of the e-commerce platform. Merchants can access added features by installing extensions and themes from the huge Magento Connect marketplace.

OpenCart

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OpenCart is an open-source, PHP-based e-commerce solution for online merchants. OpenCart has a very loyal and active community for user support, as well as a list of commercial partners for professional installation and customization.

PrestaShop

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PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce solution, written in PHP and based on the Smarty template engine. It features cross-selling, downloadable products, product export, one-page checkout, shipping discounts, and much more.

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Zen Cart

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Zen Cart features more than 1,800 add-ons in 16 categories. Zen Cart’s support community has approximately 150,000 members and 200,000 threads.

osCommerce

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osCommerce is one of the first open-source e-commerce applications. More than 7,000 free add-ons have been uploaded by its community to customize an online store. osCommerce facilitates direct communication with other community members through the Live Chat room.

Zeuscart

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The best thing about Zeuscart is its user interface, which is rich, attractive, user-friendly and generally less boring than most of the open-source UIs. It is designed for small and medium businesses in mind. Users can make the most of SEO friendly URLs, gift cards, discounts, email templates and tier-pricing, which makes it possible to decrease prices for bulk orders.

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Afcommerce

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If you want to keep your e-commerce platform really, really simple, then Afcommerce could be the option for you. It has a speedy one-page checkout, customer help pop-up windows and customer accounts are generated automatically from orders.

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SimpleCart .js

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You can now add increment, decrement, and remove buttons to your cart. You can also rearrange items, change the HTML tags, do whatever you like to display on your shopping cart and how you want. It’s lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable.

Tomato Cart

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TomatoCart eCommerce  solution is a web desktop application that mimics the user experience of a desktop Operating System, offering features and applications similar to a PC environment so that users can easily start work.

StoreSprite

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StoreSprite eCommerce  offers many features that you’d expect to find only in paid-for and more popular platforms. These include loyalty points, customer ratings and reviews, status notifications, order tracking, special offers, best sellers and shopper accounts.

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