E-commerce has always been a booming industry at every single pace of changing technology. It is because you will see that every moment the internet population is been creating a huge demand for online shopping channels. There are lots of online shopping sites which are currently debuting every day.
2. Introduction
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▪ E-commerce has always been a booming industry at every single pace
of changing technology.
▪ It is because you will see that every moment the internet population is
been creating a huge demand on online shopping channels.
▪ Here are the lists of e-commerce CMS (hosted and self-hosted) platform
where you can go through entire details of it, which are currently
trending and on demand for an online store.
3. Top 25 eCommerce Platforms
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List of eCommerce Platform
Magento Drupal Commerce Magnolia CMS Shopify
Wix Able Commerce Big Commerce Virtue Mart
Zen Cart OSCommerce Square Space Open Cart
X-Cart Woo Commerce Pinnacle Cart Prestashop
Ecwid Volusion Lemon Stand 3d Cart
Core Commerce SAP Hybris Spree Commerce Demand Ware
CS Cart
4. ▪One of the most popular and largest open sourced platform which is good to start and
there are many features that you have ever expected. 4
Magento (Hosted and self – Hosted)
5. ▪Shopify is one of the hosted eCommerce solutions which helps one to build an online store
for business. It is Software as a service (Saas) base solution for e-commerce online web
development
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Shopify (Self-hosted)
6. ▪This platform is completely reliable and though it has well back-end support that makes it as a
clear choice as their shopping cart for new online businesses 6
Big Commerce – (Hosted)
7. ▪It is an open source eCommerce platform which you feel a bit to be an outdated version of
Amazon. In some of the major factors, osCommerce has been a loyal open source developer with
an ability to compete for the modern eCommerce field without changes.
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OsCommerce – (hosted)
8. ▪It is popular within the small businesses that don’t have much staff with a lot of programming
experience. One of the best factors of opencart is simplicity that it never drags on your server. 8
Open Cart – (hosted)
9. ▪It is one of the themes which is just another free WordPress plug-in. WooCommerce is free to
download and despise of being free, it offers an enormous amount of extensive features, even
also it’s extremely flexible both by nature.
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WooCommerce– (hosted)
10. ▪It is built for creating, managing and launching successful online stores without any license
fees. Prestashop web development requires fewer servers and resources as compared to other
eCommerce platforms.
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Prestashop– (hosted)
11. ▪One of the eCommerce solutions which is having all the tools to set up and run a successful
online store. It is scalable and due to a variety of their unique features and functionalities that
support a lot in the selling effort for the creative team.
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Volusion– (hosted)
12. ▪3DCart is one of the foremost eCommerce development platforms that offer you everything you
need to build your successful online retail store.It has a hosted solution to build a lavished
feature store from beginning to end.
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3D Cart– (hosted)
13. ▪SAP Hybris is one of the complete customer engagements with multichannel eCommerce
solution with fully integrated tools and capacities.
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SAP Hybris– (hosted)
14. ▪Demandware is the online business accelerator to grow your industry as a leader and helps
you with performing solutions.It offers a large amount of array to benefit your business to
become an industry and keep up changing with the online environment.
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Demandware– (hosted)
15. ▪It is one of the platforms which is used too but not specially designed for eCommerce
business.For several years there is a lot of growth in merchandising which has grown a lot. 15
Drupal Commerce– (hosted)
16. ▪Wix is a very popular cloud-based web development platform that serves millions of user across
the globe with its quality. Ithas open templates for branding modifications and customization to
build a store exactly as you think off.
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Wix– (hosted)
17. ▪VirtueMart is an online expansion for Joomla. It is simple to use for beginners and experts too,
it offers an enormous amount of built-in elements which makes the store professionally in a few
minutes.
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VirtueMart– (hosted)
18. ▪It is one of the website building tools that helps you create your own functional website from
scratch.Squarespace also gives you the access to the complete package needed to be
launched with the fully operational website.
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Squarespace– (hosted)
19. ▪X-Cart is the platform which opens sourced and helps you to go to your online store across
global markets by providing you full control over everything.It supports OOP to PHP7 and
though the database is user-friendly too which is made up by MySQL, Maria DB and so on.
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XCart– (hosted)
20. ▪Pinnacle is widely accepted and customizable PHP software cart and it helps you to design
from marketing prospectus.So that it can deploy its packaged in a way that it will be easy to
use.
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Pinnacle Cart– (hosted)
21. ▪Ecwid is currently the leading choice for small businesses who can set up the online store
easily. No need to change or abandoning your current site.
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Ecwid– (hosted)
22. ▪Lemonstand is very light weighted and highly customizable platform which helps you to
develop the site in very less time.It is beneficial to the developers who are working with MVC
format and have solid PHP background.
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LemonStand – (hosted)
23. ▪It is specially made for small and medium-sized businesses to build their online presence in the
world of internet.Core commerce store comes with a new look and easy navigation that
automatically links with the shopping cart. 23
Core Commerce– (hosted)
24. ▪It is a highly advanced open-sourced platform that mainly mounting the way for eCommerce
with the base of Ruby on Rails.It is one of the top end open source eCommerce platform that is
suitable for the developers to gain the flexibility and extensibility upon accessing it.
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Spree Commerce– (hosted)
25. ▪It is used for the businesses that are looking to operate e-commerce store with jam-packed
features, providing better services.Cs-Cart helps you with starting out, a simple hosted
checkout that might be best to get you sales up and running.
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CS-Cart– (hosted)
26. ▪Magnolia is built for flexible and powerful CMS which help you grew better in the market to
customers and for customers.It is entirely built in with CMS platform which opens sourced
with a base from Java programming.
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Magnolia CMS– (hosted)
27. ▪AbleCommerce helps you with solutions which will lead you to the complete access to the
eCommerce platform to make you complete the current trends.It is fully eCommerce solution
that can be easily installed and works in minutes.
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Able Commerce– (hosted)
28. ▪This is one of the all in one E-commerce support platform that helps you to develop and to
move from current platform to their platform.It makes your life easier with one inventory set
up, shared between your online and physical store.
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Air Square– (hosted)
29. ▪Zen cart is a popular solution which has been around since 2003 when it just branched from
osCommerce.It has a large community too and with a variety of add-ons and community that
contributes module.
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Zen Cart– (hosted)
30. Conclusion
▪In short, you can say there are plenty of open sources, cloud, hosted and self-
hosted platform available that can help you boost up your online business.
▪Most of the platforms which are useful to develop an e-commerce platform
are enlisted here for references.
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