7 Best e-Commerce Open Source CMS Platforms in 2018!
By: Md. Nazrul Islam
Tags: Technews, Technology, Best Ecommerce Platform, Prestashop, Ecommerce

You know choosing the right e-commerce platform is essential for your business and this is a bit confusing as there are lots of eCommerce CMS platforms available in the world. To run your e-commerce shop you have to select the best and suitable eCommerce CMS for growing your business.

So, let’s read out the best 7 eCommerce open source CMS platforms in 2018CLICK TO TWEET.

Magento is undoubtedly the top leading platform for open commerce innovation in the eCommerce CMS world. Every year, Magento handles over $100 billion in gross merchandise volume. They have a massive marketplace stocked with website themes and useful applications.

Magento was recently acquired by Adobe, the American software giant, for $1.68 billion. Adobe has a rather large developer base, active creative community, and a strong cloud infrastructure. Adobe’s resources will undoubtedly shape Magento. At present, it’s unclear how the partnership between the two companies will change e-commerce as a whole. All we know now is that Magento is bound to benefit. Though Magento is an open-source (free to use) you’ll have to pay for hosting, apps, and premium themes, but the use of the platform itself is completely free.

PrestaShop is one of the most powerful and popular open-source e-commerce application mostly used in the European zone. This CMS has just been used by more than 270,000 e-Commerce stores run worldwide using PrestaShop technology.

Their mission is to develop world-class eCommerce software through open source innovation. This is why anyone can download, install and set up PrestaShop for free.

PrestaShop is on the 2016 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in Europe. The company also received the 2016 CMS Critic Award for Best eCommerce Software. They have a huge addons and theme based marketplace hosted in their site that selling premium modules and themes by them and third party agency too.

You know WordPress is the leader of all CMS and this is why WooCommerce is one of the most powerful open-source eCommerce plugins, which enables a WordPress website into an E-commerce.WooCommerce has a lot of free themes and plugins which can make your e-commerce site more functional and active.

Most important advantages of these plugins are they can enable various features to the basic WooCommerce software in a single click and most of these plugins are free for downloading and installation. WooCommerce extra product options are one such plugin that equips the product page of Woocommerce site with many additional features like collecting input fields, file upload option, date and time picker, color picker, price selector, location selector etc at an ease.

Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce CMC company which is now one of the most growing eCommerce premium CMS. It is also the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems.

Shopify has been well received by tech website by CNET which said the platform is “clean, simple, and easy-to-use.” The company reported that it had more than 600,000 active Shopify stores using its platform as of August 2017 with total gross merchandise volume exceeding $63 billion worth of sales.

Opencart is an online store management system, easy-to-use, powerful, Open Source platform that can manage multiple online stores from a single back-end.

There are many professionally-written extensions available to customize the store to your needs. Currently, they have almost 317,000 live OpenCart sites.

This CMS is absolutely free, no monthly fees, no catches; just an effective and customizable platform for your new e-commerce store. Simply install, choose your template, and add products and you’re ready to start accepting orders. An OpenCart store can be ready to take orders soon after installation. All you have to do is have it installed for you (any web hosts do it for free), select a template form the many free or low-cost template sites, and your product descriptions and photos, click a few settings, and you are ready to begin accepting orders. Our free Installation & Quick Start chapters show you how. So, OpenCart is perfect for e-commerce stores of any size, any industry, any budget.