Top Open Source E-commerce Website Development Platforms

Open source ecommerce development platforms offer a lot to small business owners in terms of functionality and cost effective website development. They offer combinations of features at minimal cost to suit the requirement of your business. Even though the design and technical support option is not available as in hosted platforms, open-source standalone solutions often have large communities of developers and partners to assist new merchants.

In case of open source ecommerce development platforms, one gets all the core applications for free. Although, each application has both free and premium extensions. The premium extensions are available on payment of some fixed charges for a fixed timeframe.

“Enterprise Web Cloud” offers comprehensive E-Commerce Website Development solutions by proper use of open source ecommerce platforms such as Magento, WooCommerce, Drupal Commerce & more and selects the extensions that work best for your business.

In this article we will analyze the most popular open source ecommerce platforms and discuss their various features. 

●       Magento Community Edition

Magento community edition is among the most popularly used open source ecommerce platform that supports more than 20000 consumer websites at present. It is the open source ecommerce version which gives access to added features through installation of extensions and themes from a huge Magento Connect Marketplace. Basic features include catalog management tools, publishing tools, SEO friendly ecommerce website development with SEO friendly URLs and many more. User forum is available for queries as the option of technical support is not available in Community Edition.

●       WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a fast emerging and very popular ecommerce solution that lets you convert WordPress websites into online stores.  Developed by WooThemes from a fork of Jigoshop, WooCommerce gets its large variety of themes from WooThemes and other third party websites like ThemeForest and CodeCanyon. It has a large potential consumer base with over 4.5 million downloads from WordPress.org. Official WooThemes support is available with purchase of the product or you can seek answer to you queries from active community forum. 

●       Drupal Commerce

Drupal Commerce is an ecommerce application by Commerce Guys, built on the Drupal CMS. Drupal Commerce offers a complete product administration system, catalog management, shopping cart, multiple language support, multi currency convertibility and checkout form. Drupal Commerce has an extensive list of extensions offered to increase the functionality of your website such as third-party integrations for payment gateways, fulfillment services, accounting applications, social networks, and much more. Along with that, Commerce Guys offer technical support packages as well.

●       Jigoshop

A predecessor to WooCommerce, it is a free and open source ecommerce platform based on WordPress. Jigoshop has more than 30 themes, 100 extensions, and three theme frameworks. But unlike WooCommerce, it's community support does not come free of cost.

These are few of the most popular and highly recommended open source ecommerce solutions that act as a boon for small merchants who are looking for expansions. But if you want extended features, exclusive Web design and technical support, web hosting services like the ones offered by Enterprise Web Cloud, the Web design mississauga and development studio basedin Brampton, are the best option for E-CommerceWebsite Development.