ecommerce platforms

I think Magento but not sure. I also want to know. Please some one inform me.

Search this forum for ecommerce platform and you'll discover plenty of recommendations. If you're starting out, go the hosted route i.e BigCommerce, Shopify etc - each platform has it's pluses and minuses.

Once you've got a business, you can develop your own platform on open source or proprietary stack but until then, go hosted.

This question is like asking "What is the best car?" The answer totally depends on what your needs are.

There are at least 25 solid, well-supported, widely used carts on available.

Tell us what your objectives are.

I use Wordpress with Woocommerce and avoid the monthly fees that most of the other solutions have.

I seriously hate this question. What is the best house? What is the best school? What is the best computer? What is the best route to take? All of these things mean nothing without context.

What is the best school? Law School? Medical School? High School? Tech School? Qualify it.

Same thing with a shopping cart platform. What does it need to do. What are you comfortable doing? Do you have a budget? How big is your store? What characteristics does it need to have? Anyone who answers that question without knowing what you need is just blowing hot air. Answer the following questions and we can give you an actual informed decision about what works best for you...

Do you want self hosted or SAAS? (given what you said, i would suggest another hosted cart like Shopify and it might even be shopify)
How technical are you?
How many products?
How many SKU's?
How many options or option sets?
How many categories and/or subcategories of products do you have?
Do you need the ability to do subscription type business.
Do you need to sell wholesale and retail? How much wholesale functionality do you need?
Particular payment provider you need?
US based or worldwide shipping?
Need full time shipping quotes?
Need MAP functionality?
What about coupons and discount codes?
Are you dropshipping? Need multi-warehouse functionality?
How much of a third party eco-system do you want?
Are you using a Mac or PC (yes, sometimes it makes a difference).
Do you need high res photos or will standard res photos work just fine?

Magento, wordpress, prestashop, drupal, joomla these are best in all type of blogging, store website platforms. Very large scale of submission go to prestashop or oscommerce.

Hey There,

I work for ecomdash, a multichannel inventory management tool for sellers, and we chose to integrate with the following ecommerce website platforms: Shopify, Zencart, 3cart and Magento (ready this month). These are all really good platforms, with varying levels of complexity and customization (some are more robust than others, but they require a bit more configuration on your part). Hope this helps!

Tiana with ecomdash

Well, I called the Internet, and they told me:

"It depends"

Seft hosted Magento could be the best choice.
As I have 100's of satisfied clients running Magento eCommerce without any problem.

I do not recommend hosted solution. Your business is highly dependent on their business. What if they are out of business, what happen to your business?

There are alot of standalone which are free too if you do not have fancy requirements. You can check-out wordpress plugins or Joomla extensions.

There lot of free as well as paid ecommerce platforms available in market. So choosing the right one is completely based on your need and some free platforms can not be customized. You could find lot of platforms in this forum, however i would suggest Uniecommerce might be right one for most small business online stores.

I would definitely say Magento hands down. As a metaphor, it would be an automatic car that's fully loaded. With just a few clicks, you can make drastic changes where manually it would take hours for someone else to accomplish. Just make sure you have a good programmer on your hands. Get help and Be selective

Shopify is the best platform for the eCommerce website.

In my opinion amazon. They have alot of traffic and everything sells super fast. You also have the choice of FBA which means furfilled by amazon. You just send you products in and amazon does the selling and shipping.

I use Magento and everybody says they just love my site!

magento is the best

Six best ecommerce platforms-
1. Shopify
2. Magento
3. Bigcommerce
4. WooCommerce
5. Webs
6. 3dcart

Depends on how many products you have. Also depends on your budget and the time you are willing to put in to have the site built or build it yourself.

Most of our clients are built into:

Bigcommerce
Shopify
Magento
3dcart
ZenCart
PinnacleCart
Volusion

I use Magneto and Wordpress

Ah, OnlineStoreHelp. Spot-on as usual. It really does depend upon a variety of different factors.

This being said, here are a few platforms that I know first-time sellers have had good experiences with, regardless of size, sacle, etc:

BigCommerce, 3dCart, WooCommerce.

Hope this helps!

_ Sean B.

I am a Magento fan no doubt about it however I just built a site in Prestashop's new platform, surprisingly it turned out really good once you get the hang of it.

Nice discussion... According to me E-commerce platforms are many. Through out the global we can access throuhg internet..

A lot of online sellers swear by Magento, but I think it's important to remember that online selling is about as varied and can be as different as the actual people who are doing the selling.

Magento CAN be a great solution, yes. It absolutely can. But for starting sellers, it can often be a little bit too much. I've heard a lot of experienced sellers refer to it as being straight overkill when it comes to newer sellers without massive inventory or complex listing requirements. Also, Magento is known for being rather technically involved, and while the Community (free) Edition does have its fair share of support-based message boards, there is no official support, which can make things challenging.

I hope this helps!

Try OpenCart

Hello there! can you please elaborate your question with some basic details such as your products, categories, etc., to get clear suggestion because basically the ecommerce platforms depends on the needs.

According to me, the best ecommerce platforms are
1. Magento
2. WooCommerce
3. Shopify

It depends what stage of growth your business is at, and what type of products you're selling. Shopify is great for beginners, but if you have a large product range, something like Magento would be better.

Shopify is quickly becoming my favorite e-commerce platform. The user interface of the admin panel is simply gorgeous.

Also depends on what back end systems you are running. Also look for easy connectivity to your inventory, your accounting and your point of sale system. As mentioned previously on here all depends on your business needs.

It depends. For big business Magento is best. But you have to keep extra money for good hosting. Magento needs VPS at least to run smoothly. I got "A Small Orange" as a good cheap VPS hosting providers for Magento. For small business with less server load you can use OpenCart. Because it is simple to use. Wordpress with Woocommerce is another good selection. Here is one example for magento https://www.goodguysgardening.com/

That's just service providers overselling chargeable time and helping put the retailer out of business before they start. We have dropped in small busines Magento sites (ok, only one as we don't work with small business - normally $100,000s to $millions projects) with 1-2day turnaround and with Amazon AWS dual-node Nginx & HHVM the things rank like $multi-million companies. If you're niche Shopify or Prestashop or Woocommerce - otherwise you have no choice but Mangeto as it's the top of the range small business platform. It still only gets you to 200% efficiency compared to Amazon's 1,400% but it a lot better than WooCommerce at 50%. The main problem is service provider overselling and retailer demands - both reduce its efficiency down to ~50% from its starndard 200%.

You will shoot yourself in the foot with WooCommerce in this situation - it's primarily a niche tool and not as scalable as Magento. You can have a Magento install running in a few days, just keep extensions to a handful and absolutely minimal custom code - it's the corporate approach - less is more. With HHVM and dual-node AWS hosting the site will run like a corporate company (HHVM runs Facebook) - Google seems to love multi-node hosting. The above forms the basis of these ultra high efficiency setups which the consultants have let us share with you - https://twitter.com/VanquishCmce/sta...30549214646272 - the strategy will propel your site in to the top 5% of sites at your level - the top 5% of retailers make 50% of all online revenue.

You then get to use the full force of Magento's 200% efficiency which gives you an edge over 95% of your lateral competitors. Normally you allocate 1% of revenue to hosting, 1.5% to consulting and 1% to platform. So you really want to target $100,000 revenue (half of Nano Enterprise which is <$200,000) so $3,500.

We'll add a caveat to that last statement. Small business is low efficiency so is time based, as they are squeezed by larger corporates they demand more changes which requires more time - however when a business is in crisis the key is to become simpler (as opposed to cost cutting) as it increases efficiency.

We have worked with one small business who were starting to be squeezed by an 800% efficiency corporate competitor, however they just didn’t want to grow at anything other than a snails pace using 250% efficiency, so we all had to drop them. To date we have not yet come across any small business that wants/needs to grow using high efficiency and does not put demands on our time.

We always believe you install and let the business run it themselves which is against the small business ethos. Most are running a small business (sub 200% efficiency) for revenue, prestige and flexibility however it only becomes interesting for us above 500%+ efficiency hence why we don’t work with small business. Now if a small business had the desire to generate rapid growth with HEIC to propel themselves out of small business in to mid-market 500%+ efficiency with $500,000+ revenue per employee then it becomes more interesting.

Another vote for WordPress and WooCommerce.

This is just too good not to pass on.

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There's now a fight between the low efficiency providers, the retailers who need more efficiency to survive, and the methods they need to employ to get there. In employing high efficiency methods the retailers reduce their need for provider services - it's how you become more efficient.

I used shopify.is good.

Alright chaps, you're on you own from here on out - our job is done. The collapse is now in full swing - it will complete in around 12-18mths and will take out many established small business retailers and small business service providers. Startups won't get out of the starting gate.

As a retailer you absolutely have to target growth of 20-50% YoY from here on out otherwise you will become one of the statistics. The established retailers and small business providers are now fighting for survival and they will play dirty to retain their revenue.

Even Magento & eBay employees are now contacting us directly they are so worried about service provider free high growth strategies. We're off back to trading and our own commerce sites so will wait for the dust to settle around here - honestly hope some of you make it through because if you do you will gain 7-10x the customers from the failing retailers.

For a mid-size store Woo Commerce is good, for high range Open-cart and for enterprise multiple store Magento

Only thing wrong with opencart at the moment is that 2.0 is just not ready for prime time,, way to unstable and many bugs

Prestashop! One of the simplest and easy to use CMS for Ecommerce Stores.

These are some best open source free ecommerce platforms, just install one of these and boost your small business.
OpenCart
osCommerce
Zen Cart
PrestaShop
CubeCart (Lite)
TomatoCart
Zeuscart
Spree Commerce
Magento
Magento is the most used free ecommerce platform.

I use Wordpress with Woocommerce and avoid the monthly fees that most of the other solutions have.

Hello Warriors,
Can anybody help me out by finding reliable dropshippers from Germany?
With best wishes.
Mustain

Prefer doing affiliate than selling actual products...

Lesser logistic n stocks holding issues.....

In the last 4 years i used "CubeCart v4" but they don't support it anymore i think, and is not mobile ready, so you have to buy v5. But is easy to use the v4 version.

Magento and bigcommerce is best platform for e-commerce site.

According to me Nationakrt is a best e-commerce platform who are providing the best team and services. It also provides the 24/7 support and fulfill all the demands and requirement of customers.

I think you should try WooCommerce. It is based on Wordpress platform which supports you with various quality extensions form accounting to inventory.

I've tried a bunch of platforms. Shopify is the best, Magento is also good

Tripleclicks is one I know better

It depend on your business requirement, actually what you need.
Many eCommerce platform are there.
1- openCart
2 - Shopify
3 - Magento
4 - Woocommerce
5 - Wordpress

A proper e-commerce solution should have an email capture option.

I use opencart, it's free and fairly well done. Then you can buy some templates to make it look nice and unique

Woocommercce and Opencart is the best and easy ecommerce platform

There are loads of options to take. There are loads of free platforms to take such as woocommerce, and Wordpress ecommerce plugins and even at Weebly. However, if you are really serious about e-commerce and aiming for a bigger business then I recommend a 'paid' one e.g. Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, etc.

I absolutely love shopify , they make things so simple and less tech head aches. They might be a bit more expensive then there competitors, but its def worth the extra $$

Magento or Woocommerce is ok. But Woocommerce is usually for small business and Magento is for big one. So it's up to your company's size

best ecommerce platform are , cs-cart, prestashop, node.js, senchtouch, wordpress, magento, Joomla, drupal and more.

It depend on your business requirement and need
Magento
ZenCart
Opencart
wordpress
joomla
Woocommerce
shopify

Agree with so many people above. These websites are hard to be compared, but I think the one which you like most is the best site for you.

Any way, the appropriate is the best.