The document discusses recent trends in open source ecommerce platforms. It compares popular platforms like OsCommerce, ZenCart, Virtumart, and Magento. Magento is highlighted as one of the most fully-featured platforms due to its flexibility, speed, security and support for extensions. Key features of each platform are outlined, along with their advantages and disadvantages.

1. OpenSource Ecommerce What are the Recent Trends? Saidur Rahman bijon Email :bijon_php@yahoo.com Blog: http://saidur.wordpress.com Sr. Software Eng.

2. Agenda : OpenSource Ecommerce Features in Ecommerce Popular Open source Ecommerce Look at a recent kick ass application

3. What are the Ecommerce Features?

4. Is Ecommerce differ from real life shopping?

5. Let’s see the Real life Shopping Products display for customers Choosing different products Price with products

6. Real life Shopping (continue..) Choose products and add to basket Checkout Baskets & payment Payment Process

7. Online Shopping like a Real life shopping products display for customers Choosing products & add to basket show basket items Shopping Basket System

8. Online Shopping (continue..) show basket items Shopping Basket System

9. Online Shopping (continue..) payment Options Billing and Shipping Information CheckOut &Payment system payment by 3 rd party tools

10. Online Shopping (continue..) How paypal work

11. Features OF Ecommerce Site Management Product management Variety of payment and shipping modules Order Management User Management Report system Customize the Template Look and Feel

12. Features OF Ecommerce (Continue..) Unlimited category hierarchy Entry product description Multiple images per product Multiple price plans product review system Product Management Features

13. Features OF Ecommerce (Continue..) SSL security support for orders Shipping to multiple addresses in one order Shopping basket Shopping Cart with tax and shipping estimates Multiple payment gateway options Shipping & Payment Features

14. Features OF Ecommerce (Continue..) Coupon System Newsletter System Product Promotion and marketing features

15. What are the options to build ecommerce? IN-House Open Source Outsourced Licensed Solution

16. Popular Open Source Solution Google Trends Open Source ecommerce

17. Basic Features OsCommerce ZenCart Virtumart Magento License GPL V2 GPL V2 GPL V2 GPL V2 First Release 2003 2005 2005 2007 Depend-encey - - joomla - Parent - osCommerce phpShop -

18. Features of osCommerce Technical Features Code Base PHP4 PHP5 Compatibility Partial Framework Used - Database MySql

19. OsCommerce Features Unlimited categories Unlimited product options Administration Panel Multi-lingual Coupon System Tax Rate Management Permission System Multiple Currencies Shipping Modules 1 image per product

20. Oscommerce - Advantages Has the most available number of contributions and modifications . Recent security update brings it up to date with MySQL 5 and PHP 5

21. OsCommerce-Disadvantages Difficulty to add advanced features such as group discount, configurable products, custom payment module No graphic template system meaning it is harder to modify the design Unable to add multiple product image

22. Features of ZenCart Technical Features Code Base PHP4 PHP5 Compatibility Yes Framework Used - Database MySql

23. ZenCart Features Unlimited categories Unlimited product options Fully Customizable Template system Multi-lingual Customer Group Customer Reporting Tools Permission System Multiple Currencies Shipping Modules Multiple image per product

24. ZenCart - Advantages Overcome the short come of Oscommerce Many contributions from Oscommerce already installed. Nicer looking default designs pre-installed

25. ZenCart - Disadvantages not possible to use Oscommerce contributions, they must be converted to Zen Cart. Admin interface usability

26. Features of Virtumart Technical Features Code Base PHP4 PHP5 Compatibility Partial Framework Used Joomla CMS framework Database MySql

27. Virtumart Features Unlimited categories Unlimited product options Easy Template Integration Multi-lingual SSL Customer Reporting Tools Tax Calculation Multiple Currencies Shipping Modules Multiple image per product

28. Virtuamart - Advantages Easy to install . Combine well with best cms joomla Has the basic shopping cart features Easy template switching Use Joomla Component

29. Virtuamart-Disadvantages Lacks a lot of high-end shopping cart features. Not as many add-on modules available

30. Features of Magento Technical Features Code Base PHP5 PHP5 Compatibility YES Framework Used Zend framework Database MySql

31. Magento - Advantages Out of the box it has the most features such as Google Checkout, Order editing Has the cleanest coding of all of the shopping carts reviewed. Has an excellent templating system making it easy to upgrade

32. Magento - Disvantages Modifying the cart can sometimes take longer the coding style has a steeper learning curve Highly configurable system requirements Significant cost to host the platform and get decent performance

33. The ‘Right’ Solution First-No perfect Solution. Realize this early on. Look for a product build or Product that fulfill your objectives A provider you trust

34. The Recent Kick ass ecommerce www.magentocommerce.com

35. Reviews on Magento "Magento is going to win the eCommerce software war, hands down. I've never seen another ecommerce platform so well architected and well designed as Magento." Jack Aboutboul,

36. Features of Magento Site Management Multiple Websites And Stores Administration Panel Multi-lingual One-click Upgrades Customer Groups 100% Customizable Tax Rate Management Roles And Users Permission System Multiple Currencies Localization

37. What maeks magento differ from others? What are the main things to choose a better apartment ?

38. Magento Architecture -Background OO Support PHP5 Support Zend Framework MVC Design Pattern Interface to Other CMS

39. Using Zend Framework, Magento was Built with below points Flexibility Upgradeable Speed and Security Portability

40. Magento Database Structure Entity-Attribute-Value model. heavily normalized Products - EAV

41. Magento Site– Few Screen shot

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44. Magento Site– Few Screen shot

45. Magento based site

46. Magento based popular site

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48. Thank You Saidur Rahman Email : bijon_php@yahoo.com

49. Questions