What is the best ecommerce software for an online store?

There is never somewhat best ecommerce software. The platform which fully fits your needs is the best. The popular ones include Shopify, BigCommerce, Joomla, Magento, etc. WordPress Woocommerce is another cost-effective option for small businesses.

Another suggestion for online stores is live chat software, which enables you to engage visitors in real time. It has been widely used by ecommerce sites to improve customer satisfaction and sales conversion. If you use Wordpress, there are some chat plugins for you to choose, such as Comm100 Live Chat, Live Person, etc. Good Luck.

Your request is sufficiently vague that its hard to give you a good answer. As you have figured out there are 100's of ecommerce platforms available, and they all do different things well. They all have the ability to customize in one way or another, some easier, some harder.

How many products, categories, sub categories will you have? How many options and variants? Do you need to do recurring orders? How good are you with html, css, php, ruby, asp, javascript, etc? What is your budget? Do you want to run one store? Or multi-store? Do you want to deal with server issues, SSL certificates, maintenance and updates?

All of these things are important to know before we can give you any kind of input as to what works best for you. If you want a true ecommerce platform, then stick with the carts designed for ecommerce, that means forget wordpress, joomla and drupal.

Why not give us details on what you want and need and then we can suggest a cart that might fit your needs. Until then everyone will just be throwing out their personal favorites or what they think is the best.

Magneto is really the cake these days. It's like the wordpress of e-commerce. Free, easy to setup and great for beginners and excellent if you want it to be.

A million developers out there to help with tasks if a plugin isn't already out there.

eBay bought a significant stake in them for a reason ....

lastreporter, what security issues are you talking about?

Magento, Shopify and Opencart very trendy in eshop websites development plateform, user interface are well in Magento and Opencart

I use magento . you can outsource customization and templates/theme work on elance or freelance.There's a wide variety of plugins available already for free.Wordpress with shopperpress is also good

I would also have to recommend woo commerce, or go with paypal. For $5 a month you can integrate it on your website. This can cut down on your costs, im not too sure what woo commerce has as a merchant fee.

I have no more knowledge about E-Commerce but I have Some know algae of Magento & Open cart, word press, according my personal experience I think Magneto is best for all them.

If you don't know how woocommerce works, then why are you recommending it?

Woocommerce doesn't have a merchant fee because it isn't a merchant or a payment provider. It is an e-commerce solution for wordpress - in regards of product organization and connection *with* payment providers. It is free.

AbanteCart is an ideal open source solution for my small online business. I expected small issues in installation and preparation, but all actually went very smooth. I used softaculous on my host to install, and managed to set site up in about 10 minutes.

Magneto is gud e-commerce site .

I think magento is pretty good

Hi,
In my personal experience and research I found Pinterest the good and free software.

But when i see amazon webstore it solve all problems at once.
I like amazon webstore and recommend it too. The plus point here is the amazon support and easy to build an e-commerce site. Just upload your items in bulk and assign it categories. No monthly fees.

Magento is also a good e-commerce building site, have monthly fees same with Big-commerce.

Best Regards,
Zaheera

tomato cart is free and works great for my clients

This depends on your requirements, programming language preference and budget.
some software vendors offer a community version which is free for production use to get started.

For customization, you then need to look for source code access. If you are not efficient with programming , the open source solution might be hard for you. Alternatively, you can find a commercial solution which includes features you require & helpdesk support is also a plus.

what can I say that if you very serious doing eCommerce and want to setup very quickly and need easy admin back-office where you can control everything, then I believe "Opencart" is the best.

Opencart is not WordPress and can never be integrated in Wordpress so it completely separate thing.

When you buy hosting package make sure with the company whether they have OpenCart or not, if they have then you can quickly install from the Cpanel itself.

It is very nice and easy to control your website. If you want more help about it just PM me.

I hope this helps..

anyone have any experience with 3dCart ?

WooCommerce was really useful for me. I can recommend it.