Top 5 Open Source CMS platforms for e-commerce website development

Building an e-commerce website for your business from scratch is really a time-consuming process and unless you’re doing it yourself, it can cost you thousands of dollars.

So, if you don’t want a unique design for your e-commerce website, you can build your own website using pre-built modules in less than an hour.

For this purpose, you just need a hosting company and the best open source Content Management System (CMS) to save you from writing a whole lot of complicated lines of code.

WHAT IS CMS?

A Content Management System or CMS is a system in which you can log in to your website, create new pages, edit, publish or delete the content, manage pages or change almost anything.

Now you may wonder what is an open-source CMS.

A CMS can be open source or proprietary based on the fact that whether the publisher allows the user to edit and make copies of the source code or not. The source code of an open source software is accessible to everyone and anyone can contribute to the code.

However, a proprietary CMS is the opposite of an open-source CMS. A proprietary CMS is the legal property of its creators. The source code of such a CMS is not made public and only its license holders can use it.

List of top 5 open Source CMS platforms for e-commerce website development:

1. Magento (Best eCommerce Website development platform, but difficult to maintain)
2. WordPress + WooCommerce (Easy to use, but slow)
3. PrestaShop (It is best for big websites and not easy to use)
4. Open Cart (It lies in between Magento and WooCommerce, the best e-commerce CMS platform for medium-scale websites)
5. Shopify (SaaS-based best eCommerce platform for those who don’t want the headache of maintenance, price starts from $29/month)

Let’s see a quick summary of these top 5 open Source CMS platforms one by one. Here we go.

1. Magento: df

Open Source or the Magento Community Edition (CE) is completely free for anyone to download and use. CE meets almost all the requirements of a business owner who want to initiate an e-commerce website.

It includes features like products, website designs, payment gateways, shipping, and a thousand themes and templates for your e-commerce store.

A major disadvantage of using Magento is that the development team should be well aware of the PHP Zend framework used in the codebase of Magento.

For more information: https://magento.com/home_page

Top websites using Magento:

1. Coca-cola
2. Nike
3. Ford
4. Fox Connect
5. Olympus

At NexGen Innovators :

The team at NexGen Innovators is well-qualified in PHP framework and Java. We have successfully accomplished major Magento E-Commerce Projects for our clients:-

https://couturiershome.com/

Feel free to Contact Us for more consultation and a great deal.

2. WordPress + WooCommerce:

WooCommerce is an open-source plugin used in WordPress. It provides many add-ons that boost the performance of your e-commerce store.

For example, the PayPal add-on in WooCommerce provides a single payment solution for debit and credit cards. Its Checkout add-on allows you to highlight relevant products and offers to the consumer.

The major drawback of WooCommerce is its limited usage possibility in WordPress. So, you have to rebuild your website in WordPress to be able to use WooCommerce.

If you already have your website on WordPress, this plugin can do wonders for you.

For more information: https://woocommerce.com/

Top websites using WooCommerce:

1. Clickbank
2. Awesome Inventions
3. WorthPoint
4. Blue Star Coffee
5. Bookriot

Have a look at our major WooCommerce projects :

https://www.kcsshop.in/

https://www.sareeking.com/

https://wardrobeconnection.in/

3. PrestaShop:

PrestaShop is in the e-commerce market for 11 years. In this long period of development, PrestaShop has grown into the quite an intuitive administration panel.

PrestaShop provides a versatile platform with countless features and most importantly it is the best CMS for beginners who have just started programming for their online adventure.

But PrestaShop in the long run is a hard deal because of the large number of bugs released. Fixing them needs a really good command of programming.

For more information: https://www.prestashop.com/en

Top websites using PrestaShop:

1. Maptiteculotte
2. Harryfay
3. Pop-line
4. Salling
5. Atelier8

4. Open Cart:

Open Cart allows you to make a website and run it immediately to get more customers.

It creates a global presence of your business as you get access to the community which provides dedicated commercial support. There are also a number of free add-ons on Open Cart.

The point where your e-commerce store can lack is the SEO experience. It creates duplicated pages for various URLs which have to be fixed at a coding level in your design. Also, the e-commerce platform on Open Cart is slower as compared to other CMS like Magento.

For more information: https://www.opencart.com/

Top websites using Open Cart:

1. AskMeBazaar
2. WholeSaleBox
3. TrendyBharat
4. HodHodMarket
5. BrandShop

5. Shopify:

Shopify is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. In, you have to pay a monthly fee to use this tool. For an e-commerce store, it is an excellent option.

The themes on Shopify make your website look beautiful as well as professional. The messenger chatbots on Shopify have greatly improved the user experience. Shopify also makes a larger number of plugins available on the Shopify store for automating various tasks.

However, you really need to consider its competitors like Magento which are difficult to work with but provide very flexible customization.

For more information: https://www.shopify.com/

Top websites using Shopify:

1. SkinnyMeTea
2. M2S Bikes
3. WP Standard
4. Beard Brand
5. Taylor Stitch

Thanks! for having a read. Stay tuned for more info on hosting companies and CMS platforms.