To Develop E-Commmerce Website which Platform is Useful?

Didn't you say in another thread you are going with Magento?

I think the best e-commerce platform to work with are the one which can provide you with fast and reliable services. The success or the failure of an online business will depend on how reliable the e-commerce platform you work with.

No offense, but you already have the players. Why not do your own research? I really doubt most of us have the time to do your work for you. (There are consultants here that will do an in depth analysis for you on a fee basis)

Otherwise, go to each site and try the products. They offer free trials. It will take you some time, but it is the only sure way you will find the platform right for you.

Good luck.

I vote for megento Because it is powerful and compare the os commerce most of the high end or success full store are running on Magento

I have used Virtuemart, Prestashop, magento but all those cant come against

woocomerce.

the power of plugins, tags and all the SEO goodies you need..

Jeff, It is always depends on number or services and product you want to sale.

If you have large number or product and you want all the eCommerce features like, customer management, order & invoice management and all.

Based on your requirement you can choose eCommerce platform, If you have limited product or services which you want to sale than I will not recommend you Managento.

Magento is the best option. these days most of the ecommerce websites are created on the basic of the Magento.

Wordpress with ECwid shopping cart. But please be more respectful in doing proper research. All the best.

I vote for Wordpress. It is easy to manage and a lot of plugins to use for your site.

I will vote for OpenCart. Lots of mods, and a pure shopping cart. Been installing them right and left for my personal or client's e-commerce sites. Support is great too. I played with Wordpress WooCart and wasn't too impressed. Feature-wise - OC is awesome out of the box.

For large volume sales and/or many products I would go with Magento. It is full featured and can help you manage large amount of stock, customers, orders, etc
If you sell just a few items, low volume sales, one of a kind items, etc, then I would go with Wordpress. Super quick to add individual products, check orders, plus the vast amount of Wordpress plugins that you can use to your needs are great.

Look around for screenshots/feature lists/video demos of both Woocommerce and Magento to help you decide.

My advice is to try to setup Woocommerce or another plugin and see if it suits your needs. Magento is more difficult and time consuming to set up (worth it though)

Vote for WordPress since it's simple and easy to use.

magento is the cake these days. it's the wordpress of e-commerce sites.

period, ".", p-e-r-i-o-d

eBay bought a stake in them for some hundreds of millions for a reason and their usage from small business to enterprise proves it's flexible.

Many of these others will get the job done but I don't see how anyone could really argue they could out do magento.

just my 2c

It will in the end come down to your hsoting if you want to go with Magento. Otherwise I would recommend Wordpress and Woocommerce or Open Cart.

I tested Magento on my site but was quickly frustrated. After using the free trial of BigCommerce, Volusion and Shopify, I chose Shopify. It's a lot easier to customize than I found the other two and easy to update products. Good luck with your site!

I have only used free tools from WordPress and paypal for my web-shop and it works great

I don't know about from an SEO perspective, but OpenCart has been great for me so far. Fastest to get running out the box, uses little resources, many extensions for anything you could want to do.

I installed prestashop and magento too, but I didn't like the amount of options to configure. It all depends do you want a small simple cart or a powerhouse to serve many users.

Sounds like you want us to do all the work for you in writing articles for an affiliate review site.

If you seriously wanted to know the information you could find out quickly just visiting those sites instead of waiting for people to reply.

there's alot of good info in this thread! Thanks to everyone who gave good answers

I use opencart, its free and i dont have any issues with it

Hi,

My vote is for WordPress. I've many own WordPress eCommerce sites.

In this platform, We can get Plugin support easily.

Every User can handle their own site without knowing much more about WordPress.

eg : To optimize any post, you can do ON-PAGE SEO with all post using either "Allinone" and "ultimateseo".

So My experience with WordPress is really awesom.
For E-commerce site you need to optimization with each post at your end.
WordPress support for it.

I think you want to create like "http://www.flipkart.com/"
If so then you can contact us.

My developer can resolve any query you have.
They also have very Good knowledge of MAKING ONPAGE OPTIMIZED SITE.

Thanks

Why hasn't anyone mentioned PRESTASHOP? I thought its the fastest growing ecommerce platform now, and also from the reviws I have read about magento, it seems its not user friendly and too much learning curve.....

I am also looking at developing an ecommerce site, but I have been held down in regards to which platform to use between prestashop, magento and opencart...... *sigh* what a tough call

I suggest you Wordpress with Woocommerce because it's easy to manage, install and implement, as well as it's excellent for SEO.

But if you really want a very robust solution goes by Magento, that is the best in my opinion despite it is more complicated to setup and also requires a nice host plan!

You have given us the platforms, but not what you want. Each one has slight benefits/negatives for different people. If you have devs and a budget, maybe Magneto is the right solution, if you have a small budget and you aren't technical, BigCommerce may be better.

For simplicity IMO it's hands down......

Joomla + VirtueMart.

Go for custom .php setup, you can use themes for eCommerce either paid or free ones, any way after a while once you get some practice, you going to modify your store anyway. Some function you will not require, some you want to add, for this eCommerce have gazilions free plugins. Find someone locally to do settings, it will take sometime for you to figure out what you need and what not, at least it can be changed in your present

Amazon also offers - E-commerce CMS - try through Amazon Web Services

I will go for Magento this best platform for developing e-commerce websites but if you want to make your websites more attractive and user friendly so you can use e-commerce website development company which provide you to complete e-commerce solution.

My folks started demo: Demo | GosuSell. Hope they start their Beta to the end of september, too.

I suggest you to build the ecommerce store using wordpress platform and apply the plugin from woocommerce and the wordpress theme from woostore.

It's one of the most easiest way to setup everything without much technical knowledge needed.

I used to own two clothing lines and I sold both lines online. I have tested ALL E-Commerce platform and I mean all, Volusion, BigCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce, JigoShop, Prestashop. OsCommerce...and such. Towards the end, I really liked BigCommerce for it's ease of use although you are very limited when it comes to how your site design will look like and there was always that monthly fee & if you messed up, they could suspend your store.

Nowadays, I design & develop websites (including ecommerce sites) for clients and I wouldn't recommend anything other than WooCommerce. There are tons of options when it comes to themes, and as far as functionality- they have tons of extensions that you can take advantage of. Couple that with the fact that you entirely own your store (and not pay a monthly fee like BigCommerce) + great for SEO, and you've got yourself a great platform.

So my vote goes for WooCommerce.

Good luck, and let me know if there's anyway I can help.

In this Thread, you can find lots of advise, which tell that go with Magento. I would like to give same suggestion choose Magento it provides end to end solution. Multiple store lots of customers everything can easily handle by Magneto. You should be visiting those sites which are suitable with your requirement instead of waiting for people to reply and you will understand Magneto is all in one.

Shopify, BigCommerce and Volusion are my personal favourites. WooCommerce is great if you're just starting out and are looking to experiment.

I suggest you start your ecommerce website with magento as it offer best tools for an e-commerce website. I am also using the same on my website www.qpoonline.com

I've used Joomla many times and should to say It's my choice. Joomla is very flexible and handy, there are many extensions in the catalogue, and it's free.
But you will probably have to buy an ecommerce extension

For the non-technical person, a hosted option is better - IMO Shopify and BigCommerce are best.

For the technical person, self-hosting using Magento is an option for a medium to large size site but I'd still recommend going the hosted route starting out.

For me Magento platform is best in compared to others.
The top reasons why I prefer Magento over other platform:

a)Customers finds it easy for searching and purchasing products through Magento equipped website, well known for its quickness and versatility and allows you to modify your ecommerce website by itself, which is not supported in other e-commerce platforms.

b)Besides providing marketing and catalog management tools, Magento supports strong SEO solutions and flaunts with exclusive business requirements of vendor.

c)Get full featured interactive shopping experience with Magento, allowing your website highly flexible as it is designed to be a configuration based MVC system.

Would definitely recommend Magento. The Community Edition offers more features than most commercial products, and has a very robust and flexible architecture. Just make sure you select a hosting that is capable of running it. Most shared hosts will have too many limits in place.

if you have money, you should go with bigcommerce, it is the most stable Shopping cart that i used before

I suggest you Magento because its give you lots of features,Magento offers highly interactive shopping experience and its SEO friendly.

I'm back about a year later. Hope you used Magento. You can go with those boneheads at volusion or bigcommerce, but your going to FORK OVER a % of your earnings to them. If Magento is a little frustrating, hire a developer ...they're everywhere and is in PHP (alot of devs).

Oh yea, if you sell on eBay, I've had the experience in the last year during consulting to onboard a few clients onto Magento with the M2E PRE extension (multi-channel inventory and product feed to your webstore, eBay, Amazon Buy.com, etc). ...it's bad ass and FREE. Others charge 2% of sales LOL.

Only thing I WOULD say is that if your biz is new and a venture that might fizzle out or just trying something with no exsiting clients, then I might go with one of those others.

If you have a serious business (size doesnt matter) then Magento is the way to go.

There is a reason eBay bought Magento before it got to it's prime....

The others are good "out of the box" meaning, you'll get most everything you need with some clicks and setup. Where people don't look at is later on down the line when they need a modification, need to scale to grow or need some feature that's not included. Be prepared to either not be able to have it or pay a fortune to have them do it on their own time. Magento is open source for the most part and has thousands of extensions and addons. So many people use it that someone usually has already created an extension for most common site enhancements that you don't even need to custom program it. Just buy the cheap addon and away you go.

Why isn't Prestashop on the list?
It's been my favorite for 4 years now, it's the best ecommerce platform IMO.

Someone here mentioned that it has too many options. Is this really bad?
You just need to familiarize yourself with the back office settings. Once this is done, you will find it easy and fun, and you will always come back to try different settings to see how results look like.

If you're serious about your ecommerce business, there is nothing such as a "simple" platform. It needs to be robust and offer different configuration to accommodate for your business needs.

believe me.. you should go with woocommerce.. its the best i have tried...

The best way is to research which Platform is worth developing to avoid spending unnecessary time and money.

If you check out and compare the top eCommerce platform then you will find Magento is more powerful and expensive then others, because it's easy to migrate and API allow different apps to syndicate the data.
That's not all there are certain things which makes Magento different. And that's why big boys use Magento!! Be careful if you ignore this.

I think the best e-commerce platform to work with are the one which can provide you with fast and reliable services. The success or the failure of an online business will depend on how reliable the e-commerce platform you work with.

According to me, it depends on the number of products, the amount you want to spend, number of users you expecting for the site.

Considering a Free Open Source thing use Magento (Plugins & premium themes are chargeable for special purpose)

A simple site can be done with Wordpress + WooCommerce.

If you need any help do let me know.