There are plenty of ecommerce softwares are available and good one are opensource, so no plan to spend money on buying the software.

Please suggest me which one is good open source software with good payment options, work on ssl and easily update.

I finalized oscommerce and litecommerce. But like to know about others too if you are using and very satisfied.

If dollars is your only criterion for selecting your ecommerce software, and not your business needs and long term ROI, you are really selling your business short.

There are plently of software which only cost a few hundred dollars, or hosted from $20 per month, which will give you many time in return the investment back in time and support.

Good luck with your search. Jon

Well, I think opensource softwares are very strong enough and no need to spend money on buying the softwares.

Ofcourse they are, after all Magento is a world beater, and so was oscommerce at it's time.

But you do need some technical expertise to set them up.

Depends on audience and business needs. Just starting from open source because they cost $0, does not mean they are cheap when you add your time, management etc.

Anyway, good luck with it. Jon

Thanks for suggesting magento, but this costs 3000USD for professional version, which is too much for me. Any other ecommerce software u will like to recommend after magento.

YEs, i also need a pro to give me some modifications as per the requirement.

Well, I think opensource softwares are very strong enough and no need to spend money on buying the softwares.

Official support is not available for some free ecommerce platforms.
Good tech support is very important for e-commerce business.

Thanks for the suggestions, but for payment processing i mean support for payment websites like paypal, authorize.net, moneybookers.com and so on...

Well, I think opensource software are very strong enough and no need to spend money on buying the softwares as they are free. You can look into ZenCart, OS Commerce.

I consider magento commerce shopping cart software to be the best one for running e-shops...
Highly recommend it!

I am looking closely at Pinnacle Cart.

Take a look at OXID (www.oxid-esales.com).

Any suggestion on Prestoshop?

I recommend magento and netsuite.

Good luck. :)

I highly recommend Open Cart or Jrox if you want to go the extra mile by paying for a ecommerce solution.

Thanks for suggestion, really like the demo of OpenCart, i don't want to buy the software.

Magento looks best but their free version missed all the features.

There are plenty of ecommerce softwares are available and good one are opensource, so no plan to spend money on buying the software.

Please suggest me which one is good open source software with good payment options, work on ssl and easily update.

I finalized oscommerce and litecommerce. But like to know about others too if you are using and very satisfied.
Hi, ashras99

If you like OSC, I would like to recommend zen-cart. It is more powerful and flexible, IMO. Of course, it is security enough for building e-commerce sites and comes with built-in SSL support.

Have a nice day,

Pinnacle Cart is very good. Shop site is another great option. Merchant Accounts are all pretty simlular unless you are using a propriatary gateway instead of Auth.net. You always want to look for a company with good customer services history, tech support and without long term contracts. I have used e-onlinedata for a few years and I am very happy with their service. I have recieved a rate review every 6 months.

As i already mentioned I am not interested in buying any software, only looking for opensource, I have used opensource softwares and till now no problem. Hope same for e-commerce softwares too. Till now impressed with opencart.

oscommerce with a great template is also my option

Years ago I bought Digishops cart for about $300 and it worked well, but I found out something later, that I'd spend a lot more than that on support. Since the free ones don't include it, I'd really make sure you're prepared to wing it alone. Maybe take into account the quality of the support message boards for these as well. For me it turned out the Digishop online support was lacking and we had to pay to get them to fix or change something because there weren't any tutorials to do what we wanted.

Thanks for suggesting magento, but this costs 3000USD for professional version, which is too much for me. Any other ecommerce software u will like to recommend after magento.

YEs, i also need a pro to give me some modifications as per the requirement.

You can start with a professional look with very little. I believe that is is important to chose the right technology from the beguiling as if not your store will have trouble to provide new functionalities that your growing business will need.

cheers

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I have Oscommerce solution that I modified to meet our needs. But the leadership (1 guy) lost all his focus years ago. Don't ever expect them to produce a better release than the one they have now. For us -- that was good enough. If I was starting one now, and had the ability to program I would probably go with Magento. It has a lot more energy behind the product.

Hi,

I will go for osCommerce. osCommerce is easy to install and customize. Moreover there are a lot of free osCommerce video tutorials on the Internet.

Best regards

Hi,

I will go for osCommerce. osCommerce is easy to install and customize. Moreover there are a lot of free osCommerce video tutorials on the Internet.

Best regards

osCommerce is not bad, but it is outdated and the community is not very active at this moment.

Actually not many new stores are using osCommerce. I think that at this moment Magento is the one leading and where the developers are focused.

yes, oscommerce looking outdated and community is never active.

Magento is really good but costly and no use for very small stores or single handled stores.

I have seen opencart is a excellent piece of store which is opensource and community is active and not at all outdated.

I would say oscommerce, I have been using it for many years and find it to be highly customisable and extremely seo friendly if you are prepared to get your hands dirty, I have used other carts but for me its Oscommerce!

Opencart is better according to me. Easy to use and customize and has advanced feaures.

No doubt oscommerce is good but as said before it is outdated now and forum is dead.

their forum is huge, with much outdated info & contrubutions, BUT if you know what your looking for it can provide a very effective base, a site I launched for one of my clients a month ago is faring well on google, with a fair amount of referrals and a good level of sales a week.

that said it is old and I intend to look at alternatives, its just a time consuming process i guess..

No doubt oscommerce is good but as said before it is outdated now and forum is dead.

I've not looked at opencart, what exactly is it you like about it? is it search engine friendly 'out of the box'?

Opencart is better according to me. Easy to use and customize and has advanced feaures.

Oscommerce is the best in my opinion its opensource and easy with customize.

As far as I know OSCommerce is the most popular. But you have to keep it up to date, because more and more vulnerabilities are discovered for it.

As far as I know OSCommerce is the most popular. But you have to keep it up to date, because more and more vulnerabilities are discovered for it.

You can check them using this tool:
http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=oscommerce
It is Secunia Advisory and Vulnerability Database.

I would recommend CS-Cart software. The $285 (or $220 from a reseller) are really less for all the features of the software. They have a great and helpful community, the software has really all addons do you need for a successful ecommerce business.

You can check them using this tool:
http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=oscommerce
It is Secunia Advisory and Vulnerability Database.


Hey, very useful! Thanks man

Keep in mind the level of technical support you may/may not need if problems arise. If you're really good at doing your own support then you can probably get away with using free/open source shopping cart software. Else consideration should be given to the paid services.

I recommend Interspire(easy to use and no need too much seo) and also zencart.

There are plenty of ecommerce softwares are available and good one are opensource, so no plan to spend money on buying the software.

Please suggest me which one is good open source software with good payment options, work on ssl and easily update.

I finalized oscommerce and litecommerce. But like to know about others too if you are using and very satisfied.
It has been a while since I installed LiteCommerce. At the time it was a pay for license product and I was supporting it and I was an authorized reseller of the software. At that time LiteCommerce was a bit of a resource hog. It required a lot of memory (I can't remember the exact amount) and most shared hosting providers were not providing that amount of memory to a shared account. I was running a VPS at the time so I was able to provide all of the memory required. Also, be careful because in a shared environment the script would sometimes run slow and some shared providers will cut off a script that runs for more than 30 seconds at a time.

I honestly do not know if it is the same product any more or not? It is written by the same company and I know it is now open source and designed to be used with Drupal as well. I noticed that they are not listing the server requirements for the software on their website. I would suggest you e-mail their support and find out the server requirements and make sure they are compatible with your hosting provider.

I think that the best ecommerce softwares are oscommerce and zen-cart. Both are quite easy to use and feature rich

Zen Cart has multi-store module in case you are planning to run multiple shops which are all linked to the main shop. I don't know of other open source e-commerce that have this feature.

magento and interspire shopping cart (vendor edition) has it.

Assume that magento shopping cart with Litespeed server will be the best solution to run ecommerce web sites fast and efficiently.

i agree. that's the only downside of magento. and magento is also charging now for their pro and enterprise edition and the price is pretty much high just only to test the software if it is fast or not... geez.

Magento is a great eCommerce platform and we use it for our websites.

Hello,

There are many good E-commerce software available for you in the market.

Thanks,
Morris Robin

OpenCart & PrestaShop are highly recommended!

There are a lot of ecommerce solution, you can chose any from these lists:
- http://www.shopping-cart-reviews.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_shopping_cart_software

i'm using x-cart right now pretty easy to use.

i'm using x-cart right now pretty easy to use.
Yes it is much easier to use these days. Plus the performance issues have been corrected. If you know how to optimize the hosting platform for x-cart your shop will really scream!!!! :D

I would recommend VevoCart free shopping cart to anyone who wants to start an ecommerce.

I would recommend VevoCart free shopping cart to anyone who wants to start an ecommerce.

There is any ecommerce software which allows others to upload and sell and allow admin to add manufactures products which will sell by the company and not users.

There is any ecommerce software which allows others to upload and sell and allow admin to add manufactures products which will sell by the company and not users.

You need something like marketplace for manufacturers?

where i will find that? there is any marketplace script?

where i will find that? there is any marketplace script?

There are no any read-made marketplace platforms. However it is possible to customize shopping cart system to meet your needs.

You can also adapt Magento for that and then you get all the power of it but for B2B

I have one word in my mind when I hear e-commerce

MAGENTO

I have worked with many software installations including PhPBB vBulletin PhP-Fusion Zen Cart oS-Commerce to name but a few. Overall Magento is pure superiority over all e-commerce. It is VERY complex when you hit a brick wall but a challenge is just that, a wall. Get over that wall and you and your Company are on the road to success.

You get out of life what you put into it and seeing that Magento is 100% FREE, you have a LOT to gain. Just hard work is required.

Good luck, Mark Birchall (Hex UK)

My two cents...

It depends....

We have hosted about 60 different shopping carts over our 10+ years as an e-commerce hosting provider. The cart really depends on the user. What features are important, do they need built in templates or at least access to pre-designed templates, do they have any PHP skills .. and of course.. how many products, what kind of server(s).

So many twigs off the decision tree that it becomes more difficult.
One thing that has made it easier...

PCI and DSS requirements.

Users have had to prove PCI compliance for a few years now. That is not a big deal unless you (or your hosting provider) doesn't support PCI. But starting this past month.. shopping carts have to be "PA DSS" certified. There are creative ways to get around that issue but for the most part 70% of the carts are not DSS compliant.

Magento is great, has wonderful features, and in the right hands... a very good cart. The downside is that the free version is not DSS compliant and it is a server hog. It will eat your server memory, cpu, and anything you through at it and want more. Tweaking becomes very important.

Interspire is a good package and they are suppose to be DSS sometime soon.
PinnacleCart.com is simple, basic, and getting better.
Vantagecart.com is compliant.
Miva Merchant .. and old software from the past, is good and just got their DSS done.
Able Commerce.. really good features

But it all depends on what you need, what you want, how many products, and how much work you want to put into it.

We are a direct partner with many of the e-commerce providers and have been working with a lot of carts over the years.

Thanks Steven... very interesting.

May be you could explain more detailed about PCI and DSS ?
Of course I will search google for more info about this question, but want to ask your anyway. I think this info could be useful for understanding the whole ecommerce process... the info will be interesting not only for me, but also for other visitors/readers.

Magento all the way :)

Roughly .. and this is very simplified..

PCI is the scan, that you as a merchant that takes orders with credit cards must go though. The merchant provider will sometimes suggest a PCI scanning company but you an use any authorized PCI service provider to run the test. There is only one way around this.. that is not collecting any secure data such as credit cards by using payflow link (bad company), google checkout (evil company), or amazon checkout (never worked with them yet).

The downside on using those types of services instead of your own gateway and merchant account is SOMETIMES the 3rd party provider is really slow and does not post back their reply. The other downside is that it looks a lot less professional when you use "ebay", google, or amazon.

PA-DSS is a certification that the software code has to go through. Magento does not have DSS certification on the free version... you have to purchase the paid for software for that. This rule went into effect July 1, 2010 but so far I have not heard of any issues with those that have not completed the process yet. SO FAR is the key here. For a software company to go through DSS they have to spend 6 months to a year with an auditor .. and $30,000 to $100,000 +++ to get the cert. That is why not many are going to go through with that. Again, there will be ways around this certification but your site will start to feel like ebay as you send traffic and data to third parties for part of the process.

There is a lot to think about when looking for a cart. Since it can take weeks or months to get setup and looking good you want to be pretty sure you can run the store for at least a year or two before going to another shopping cart and loosing history and ranking during the move.

I recommend cs-cart

Hi Mate,

I suggest you to go with Open cart with customized version. you can find developers here it self or open-cart forum.
Good Luck.

Thanking you,
David.

i recommend interspire shopping cart, you can test my demo

admin url: here (http://launionhomes.com/lustore/admin)
demo url: here (http://launionhomes.com/lustore/)
username: demo
password: demo

if you need help, just hit me up.

PA-DSS is a certification that the software code has to go through. Magento does not have DSS certification on the free version... you have to purchase the paid for software for that. This rule went into effect July 1, 2010 but so far I have not heard of any issues with those that have not completed the process yet. SO FAR is the key here. For a software company to go through DSS they have to spend 6 months to a year with an auditor .. and $30,000 to $100,000 +++ to get the cert. That is why not many are going to go through with that. Again, there will be ways around this certification but your site will start to feel like ebay as you send traffic and data to third parties for part of the process.



Yeah, PA-DSS is a must for those merchants who would like customers to enter credit cards right on their web-site. At the moment PCI council lists just 8-10 shopping carts or their payment integrators as PA-DSS Compliant. Our X-Payments was certified in the 1st days of July 2010 and we are expecting it to appear on PCI council web-site within next couple of weeks.

I would whole-heartedly recommend Ubercart. It is by far the most complete solution that I've ever seen, and Drupal is also probably the best CMS for an E-commerce site (WordPress is good and stable, but just doesn't seem to scale so well).

As for oscommerce, I will say just this -- I built my own site on Joomla! thinking how great it was, and when I ran into problems, I just figured they were minor. After using it now for over two years and trying various addons and modules, I deeply regret choosing it as a platform.

Everything always seems just a bit broken, or unreliable. Nothing ever seemed to just work as advertised. Ubercart/Drupal on the other hand, works like a charm, and does everything except make your coffee. Inventory management, shipping quotes by weight and package size, and tons of custom settings make it almost anything you could want.

As far as PA-DSS compliance goes, they're aware of it, and will get certified if it seems that they have to, but the issue still appears a bit murky.

Magento is the best, everything works, functional (a little bit heavy).

I highly recommend Open Cart or Jrox if you want to go the extra mile by paying for a ecommerce solution.

Downloading JROX now.

Will do localhost as a test.

The software looks promising according to their website info.

Thanks for listing that.

Good going, M Bacon.

On this dot com I have a modded Open Cart.
Localhost, I have done more to it and so busy haven't uploaded changes yet.
This particular template sucks in IE based browsers. (template chooser on localhost is one change)
If any one wants a full copy of folders/files, reply with your email.
I'll send it to you as an attachment from my gmail account.
Good day.....
harcourtmarketing.com

I use opencart (http://www.bitlinetemplates.com) with themes from opencartdesign.net

Without any hesitation i would recommend anyone to use Prestashop. It has great possibilitys for getting a neat design and is pretty easy to set up. Also available in lots of different languages :)

I am using oscommerce cms for ecommerece site , But now magento cms is very famous in this day

Check Joomla + Virtuemart.
Yes, It's free.

I think you may also be able to customize your website with this combination.

Which would be considered the most secure open source eCommerce system?

I recommend prestashop and opencart :)