Famous Open Source Ecommerce Solutions

Internet sales continue to soar every year. It is now more important than ever to have a professional, well designed and easy to follow ecommerce website if you are wishing to earn from online internet market. There are many open source ecommerce solution are available in the market which is easy to use and user friendly. Top name for such open source are Magento Commerce, OsCommerce, Virtue mart and many more. Each open source has their own uniqueness in the market, some have rich functionality features, some has template based designing structure or some have user friendly nature.

Magento Commerce: After investing 5 years in osCommerce based E-Commerce solutions, Varien has launched preview version of its own Open Source E-Commerce Solution - Magento.  Magento ecommerce platform offers an advanced catalog and shopping cart price rule system. It allows the storeowners to customize the storefront and all other features including pricing, colors options, and offers right in one screen.  It controls every facet of the store, from merchandising to promotions and more. There are no limits to creativity with Magento. Now a days, there is a lot of store owner are selecting this open source because of its user friendly nature and feature reach administrative control panel. Many website designing companies provide magento theme development and magento customization service for the store owner who wish to switch from their Oscommerce store or custom store.

OsCommerce:  osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease. osCommerce is a complete online store solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend, which can be easily configured over web. It has a huge list of features and is probably the most versatile shopping cart solution and offers vast range of customization choices for the on-line storefront owners depending on their need at a very affordable price.  OsCommerce is very old and most famous ecommerce solution in past. Its still in demand because of its vast variety of contribution provided by developer from all other the world. The main drawback of the system is that it has very complex admin control panel and tedious to operate for newbie store owner but here also there are many oscommerce Customization Company are there to design attractive store design and oscommerce theme design.

VirtueMart: VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla! (and Mambo). VirtueMart offers a lot of Features, some of the standard Features required for all ecommerce application. If You have virtual Goods like Pictures, Books or Software, you can sell them with VirtueMart! It even works with remote files. With real-time payment processing, customers can download their purchased files right away. Downloads are protected by safe alphanumeric codes.