The document summarizes 7 popular ecommerce platforms: Magento, Hybris, WordPress/WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Joomla/AceShop, Drupal, and OpenCart. For each platform, it provides the top 5 things they are best known for and some popular brands that use each platform. Overall, the document provides a high-level overview of the features and capabilities of 7 major ecommerce platforms.

1. The 7 Heaven of eCommerce Platforms
Top 7 eCommerce Platforms
eCommerce Marketing Manager / Reed Elsevier / www.elsevier.com
Associate Project Manager/ Iatreio Online / www.iatreio-online.gr
Stefanos Falkonakis
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Magento
Top 5 Best Known for:
1 Multi-store installation with different settings per store
2 Easy API integration
3 Best for Marketing Promotions & tools
4 400+ unique & approved solution partners
5 26% of the top 1 million websites use Magento
Popular brands using Magento: Fox, Nokia, Samsung, Ford
Magento is the fastest-growing e-commerce platform, and for a reason. At first glance
Magento may seem complicated and time-consuming, but when you get more familiar
with it, you can see that it offers much more possibilities than any other e-commerce
platform.

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Hybris
Top 5 Best Known for:
1 Omni-Channel & Big Data friendly
2 Best in class search and navigation functionality
3 Built-in customer service functionality
4 Manage product attributes across different channels
5 Comprehensive and advanced personalization
Popular brands using Hybris: Levi’s, ToysRus, Nikon, RayBan
Hydris is an enterprise-level ecommerce software suite that offers B2C and B2B store
functionality. Currently, more than 2,500 stores use the hybris (the lowercase is
intentional) platform, boasting more than 20 million product SKUs and over 500,000
orders each day. Hybris has been a dominant enterprise platform mainly in the
European market.

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Wordpress / Woo commerce
Top 5 Best Known for:
1 Easy Installation & Development
2 Smart Dashboard & Widgets
3 Supports complex coupon campaigns
4 hundreds of free & commercial extensions
5 Thousands of themes available
WooCommerce is far and away the most popular and feature rich eCommerce plugin
for WordPress. Since its debut it has been at the forefront of eCommerce in the
WordPress space and as of right now it shows no signs of being de-throned.
Popular brands using Wordpress: Joco Cups, Utique, Guru Media

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PrestaShop
Top 5 Best Known for:
1 Simple architecture and powerful platform
2 Multi-store installation with different settings per store
3 Easy deployment and installation
4 Over 185.000 stores are powered with PrestaShop
5 Fully Customizable Design Using Templates
PrestaShop is a popular, easy to use e-commerce solution for small to medium-sized
online shops. Features include support for 38 languages, special deals and
promotions, cross-selling, affiliate programs. The open source edition supports
payment gateways such as Google checkout, and PayPal with further payment
modules offered commercially.
Popular brands using PrestaShop: Madame oup, Timefy, Yumise
Top 5 Best Known for:
1 Simple architecture and powerful platform
2 Multi-store installation with different settings per store
3 Easy deployment and installation
4 Over 185.000 stores are powered with PrestaShop
5 Fully Customizable Design Using Templates

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Joomla / AceShop
Popular brands using Joomla: PCG, ACUoms, Intrgia, Leto
Top 5 Best Known for:
1 Reward point system
2 Advanced sales reports
3 Native Joomla component
4 Geolocation
5 Internal ACL system
AceShop is a full-featured e-commerce component for Joomla with an easy to
use, search engine friendly and a visually appealing interface.
AceShop is the integration of two of the most popular open source projects in
the world: OpenCart and Joomla!

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Drupal
Popular brands using Drupal: Kenzo, Cartier, Royal Mail
Top 5 Best Known for:
1 Reward point system
2 Advanced sales reports
3 Native Joomla component
4 Geolocation
5 Internal ACL system
Drupal Commerce is revolutionary software integrating commerce, content and
community to create engaging Web experiences that bring e-retailers more traffic to
drive more results.
With Drupal Commerce, online retailers have a simple yet powerful platform and the
flexibility to integrate a rich commerce experience anywhere within their environment.

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Open Cart
Popular brands using OpenCart: Emperor Clock, Vouchers4u
Top 5 Best Known for:
1 Mobile technology functionalities
2 B2B & Customer groups
3 Free documentation
4 Worldwide partners
5 Open Source
OpenCart is a turn-key ready "out of the box" shopping cart solution. You simply install,
select your template, add products and you're ready to start accepting orders.
It has order management and multiple payment gateways already built in and we
provide lifetime free support and free software updates.
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Thank you!
S.Falkonakis@Elsevier.com