ECommerce has come an extremely long way over the past few years. Now, not only has buying over the internet become much easier, selling over the internet is getting simpler too. We now have several ECommerce platforms that provide functions ranging from simple to highly complex shopping modules, inventory management systems, logistics applications, and much more, but this question keeps confusing future owners of online stores, which platform is best for their Ecommerce business? This decision becomes harder because each platform has its own advantages and disadvantages. Here we have outlined 6 prominent ECommerce content management systems by our opinion, in no particular order. We have also given a brief outline of our own Ecommerce platform built specially for the small and medium sized business.
PrestaShop - It’s a free, open source eCommerce platform that has a broad range of features which include full control of your catalog, orders, shipping and tracking. This platform offers the following features: cross-selling, product export to online portals, sale of downloadable stuff, inventory management, comparison of product, advanced-level stock management, layered navigation, choice of number of products per page and WYSIWYG editing tool.
Magento - Magento is the fastest growing open source eCommerce solution in the marketplace, and with its wide range of features it’s not hard to see why. Magento comes with the following features: fully customizable order management system, tailored customer accounts, flexible marketing promotional tools, search engine optimization support, site control and management, mobile based eCommerce optimization, International, multi-lingual and multi-currency support, feature rich customer support and online analytics and reporting.
OsCommerce – OsCommerece is known as open source commerce, it is a freely offered eCommerce platform under the GNU General Public License, and can be used in PHP/MySQL environments. OsCommerce includes features such as: multi-lingual with English, Spanish & German, unlimited product and category support, dynamic product attribute & HTML based, product descriptions, automated website display on home page, PHP 4 compatibility with backward compatibility.
WordPress E-commerce - Wordpress is one of the most popular CMSs in the world and it has a wide range of free shopping cart plug-ins that can be used to make various websites including a variety of features. Its unique selling points are : hundreds of unique themes, popular payment gateways, Google Analytics, PDF Invoices and Packing Slips, SEO, custom product tabs.
Joomla +VirtueMart - Joomla is an open source CMS that can be used to build any type of website. VirtueMart is an open source eCommerce solution. It is ideal for medium level traffic website. Virtuemart is designed to be used together with Joomla. There are more than 500 features within Virtuemart which include: inventory warnings, virtual stock processing, search engine optimization integrated reviews, 100% anonymous checkout portal.
Drupal E-commerce - Drupal Ecommerce has easy ways to manage or configure your eCommerce website according your needs. It comes with very stringent development standards and is designed for maximum flexibility. You even get different custom attributes, dynamic product displays, and order management methods for flat running of your website.
Kaos Ecommerce Platform – This is our own Ecommerce platform built specially for the Small and Medium sized company. It’s extremely user friendly and very intuitive. It comes with various modules in built: these include product and cart level discounting, along with member and guest checkouts, Add to Wish list, Cross selling, flexible shipping, inventory warnings and an inbuilt blog as well.
We hope the above helps you make a decision on your preferred choice. If you are still unsure, come on in and have a chat with us or email us.
