Best of: eCommerce Content Management Systems

eCommerce is steadily growing, allowing businesses to easily and quickly set up, sell goods, thus allowing customers to easily purchase products. Aside from large businesses it is also becoming easier for individuals with minimal coding and design experience to set up an online store and sell their products.

Here I am going to showcase the top content management systems to start help you start your eCommerce business.

Magento

Magentowas a direct response to the emerging new needs of today’s online merchants. More than any feature or functionality what our clients really needed was “flexibility.” Our primary goal with Magento was to develop a platform that put the control back in the hands of the online merchant and placed no constraints on business processes and flow.

Open Cart

OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.

OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

Business Catalyst

The Business Catalyst content management system has many features, email marketing and online shopping. Integrated contact management and in depth analytics. The Business Catalyst CMS allows you can completely customize the layout of your shop, blog and forums.

Presta Shop

Presta Shop is professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free, the big advantage of open-source software: you’re never ‘locked’ to expensive commercial software.

osCSS

osCSS web is a web standard compliant open source online shop. The design structure is based on a template system, easyly customisable and build on CSS / XHTML.

Zen Cart

Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

 VirtueMart

VirtueMartis an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla!. Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and can be used in typical PHP/MySQL environments.

CubeCart

CubeCartis an “out of the box” ecommerce shopping cart software solution which has been written to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store which can be used to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers all over the world.

Shopify

Shopify is a hosted application that allows you to set up an online store to sell your goods. It lets you organize your products, customize your storefront, accept credit card payments through payment gateways, track and respond to orders — all without the hassle of running a physical store.