8 Best Open Source Shopping Carts

I came across your blog on Technorati. Nice site layout. I will stop by and read more soon.

Mike Harmon

So which one did you go with and why?

nice articles… how about 2checkout..is this included in the list ?

thanks..

you guys ready my mind this week. THANKS!

Frankly, I think OSCommerce sucks, and ZenCart sucks a little less, but still sucks…

I came across ZenCart awhile back while still hosting with dreamhost (they have it as one of their one-click installs). Eventually I used it for my first eCommerce project because it was open source, and dreamhost recommended it.

It was tricky to get into at first, but they have a great walk-through book available via a link at their site, and the forum community is one of the best I’ve been part of. It seems as though every question I asked was answered immediately, and by one of the cart developers.

I’d def recommend it, but be prepared to get your hands dirty (but this is nothing new for any project)

I have been searching for a great cart script to add to a new project. Some of these I have yet to come across so thanks alot for the info!

thanks for this post, I need to read something like this right now.

Hello,

You forgot the best one.
Check out:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/

I’ve been looking around for a good shopping cart with a feature that I need: people can buy credits, and then a plugin that I write can deduct credits as a virtual product is used, ie pay per e-card sent :). Not having much luck on their feature pages though. Does anyone know if this can be done with an existing cart program?

Thanks for the heads up on Magento. I’m hoping it can integrate well with other applications.

Weeeeell … osCommerce might be popular, but just because it’s an all-around solution, but not because it’s well coded or thought out. It’s a horrible chunk of spaghetti code that still gets my pulse raging everytime I have to dig into its guts … X-(

cu, w0lf.

Its great to hear from everyone. The shopping cart I chose was Magento because of the code it outputs and its has so many great features. I look forward to hearing what others have to say about these shopping carts.

Another good opensource shoppings carts

konacart.com
A free enterprise java shopping cart application

Please take osCommerce off of your list . It is a steaming pile of crap and has scarred me for life.

I’m working on an ecommerce project using Ubercart (http://www.ubercart.org/), which is a full-featured shopping cart module for the Drupal content management system. The fact that it’s built on top of Drupal makes it extremely flexible. So far, Ubercart has been a breeze to get set up and has one of the nicest user interfaces I’ve seen among the open source ecommerce platforms.

Having had experience with both osCommerce (on the list) and Ubercart (not on the list), I’d swap out osCommerce for Ubercart.

yea really great layout, and great info too.

Thanks for the list. I just started using Presta Shop and I like it better than some of the expensive commercial shopping carts out there.

Nice, thank you.

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I have to agree with Matt V. Ubercart + Drupal is a winning combo, especially if you ever want to customise things (including areas outside of the cart).

What the hell? It’s a shopping cart, write your own for christ sake.

@Tony Cheetham:

Yeah, everyone should make their own shopping carts when there are free ones out there which do exactly what people need. In fact, no one should use prebuilt libraries.

Why doesn’t everyone write their own programming languages, for Christ’s sake?! I mean what the hell? It’s just a programming language!

In conclusion, Tony Cheetham, shut the fuck up.

Anyone know if Magneto can be installed on a server that you don’t control (Network Solutions hosting package)?

STUMBLED!

Sweet list, never heard of some of these, thanks for compiling.

VOTED for this list at:
http://www.newsdots.com/tutorials/8-best-open-source-shopping-carts-webtecker-the-latest-web-tech-resources-and-news-/

I think I like PrestaShop.

Nice review of open source carts. I think the best one isn’t even listed. Apache’s Open For Business is by far the most solid and mature open source cart out there. But, with enterprise capabilities, it might be a bit overkill for most small cart projects.

I’ve been working with Magento for the last 4 months, and it spanks any other PHP cart I’ve ever worked with.

I really love hearing from everyone!!! I must say that even though OSCommerce might be very, lets say old fashion. It’s on this list because its been used by over 13,000 registered websites and yes I agree with you that it is not the perfect solution. But it has been used to provide a free E-Commerce solution.
On a side note Magento is one of the best solutions I’ve found.

Thanks for the list - has a couple I hadn’t come across.

I’d like to add my ‘osCommerce sucks’ comment to the ones you’ve got already: it’s a steaming pile of smelly stuff that was clearly coded by 3-month-old baboons with Attention Deficit Disorder.

This comment inevitably also applies to any cart solution that’s built on osCommerce.

Hi Crusty,

Magento can be installed on any Cpanel as long as it has a few packages installed:
php5-mcrypt php5-mhash php5-curl php-pear re2c php5-mysql libio-pty-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libmd5-perl php5-gd

These are all stable packages and if you have a nice host they should install it for you.

Keep well.

Great list! Thanks

While we’ve always used an inhouse solution, Magento is the future of e-commerce (if it were only a little faster and smaller ! )

hi,
Curently I m useing Agora shopping cart, there is only one option for customer. but i want give spical rebate to my wholesaler resaler. mean i wnat to make 3 area 1. customers 2. resalers and 3 wholesaler so please sugest me…which shopping cart i use…

fantastic complilation, i have to admit some of the shopping carts that i’ve tested are easy to install and customise. open source FTW.

The ZenCart is a fantastic, tableless css cart script. Best of the 8 for me. Nice list.

Another great shopping cart is Option Cart - http://www.optioncart.com. It’s only available through authorized resellers (I’m one), but it’s a great catalog system that requires no HTML knowledge for the user and works in conjunction with Mal’s ecommerce.

SEE MY SITE

Check this package out…

Includes it all to get everything working’
Joomla and Virtuemart prebundled. No seperate install required.
i.e. you know it will work once deployed on your server.
http://virtuemart.net/latest_joomlaee.php (their link doesn’t work, use this instead (without extra code trailing)).
http://dev.virtuemart.net/cb/displayDocument/Joomla_1.0.15_eCommerce_Edition_VM_1.0.15.tar.gz

VirtueMart is not a stand-alone script, but a Plug-in and requires the PHP Content Management System Joomla! (or Mambo).

The easiest way is to install the Joomla! eCommerce Edition: a ready-steady-go bundle of Joomla! & a pre-installed VirtueMart.

I’ve tried other e-commerce solutions like OSCommerce, Zen Cart and XT commerce but am less than impressed.
Customization of Virtuemart php code is straight forward. (you still need hands on knowledge of basic PHP Functions.)
It’s Flexible. It’s not a bridged component, but a native true Joomla component.

Good bloody luck out there guys!
(:

see my site i want to my site well up to date can you help me please
and what is software?

Thanks for the list. I haven’t even heard of some of these; will have to check them out. I don’t think Zen Cart should be on here, though. It’s bloated, slow, and uses way too many sql queries.

Hello,

Thanks for the list. I am looking for a shopping cart to use it on my web site, and I think I will use Magento after reading all the comments.

Cheers

Hello,
Thanks for the list. We pick aspdotnetstorefront.com
Cheers

Thank you for your article.
Wonder which one would you recommend as the best one?
After all you must have chosen one to accomplish the task.

OScommence is a nightmare with no portability. If you want an out of box solution and all you plan on doing is changing CSS and the logo, OSCommence is for you.

If you wish to create a complex re-design ( look of the site ) and only use it as a shopping cart engine, think again. The simplest change needed, will yield you hours of modifications to the code, for most with minor knowledge, prepare to pay for lots of hours to your favorite coder.

BLEH

Nice list, 3 i never heard of, what a great idea.

For all people interested in zen-cart that are scared off by the template/code nightmare, there is an alternative storefront with a much simpler structure and and a growing number of plugins: ZenMagick! (http:/www.zenmagick.org)

I agree the admin side is not much to look at (or too much!), but it’s getting better.

ZenMagick also includes an object oriented API to access virtually all storefront data which allows integrating products, cart, etc in other applications.

Check out the demo site (http://demo.zenmagick.org) for some sample Ajax features like drag & drop (from the product list)

Best of all, no more SQL in templates!! and no manual patching required.

mano

nice product urls on the http://www.zenmagick.org cart…..NOT!

its called seo, look into it

Most of these carts aren’t easy to customize and the fact that you only have a cart and nothing else is the big reason why i choose virtuemart. with virtuemart you get get everything else why? cause its a plugin for joomla. joomla has all the plugins you need from community builder to forums to blogging to gallery stuffs to newsletters and they are combine in to one system. not like standalone carts that you will still have to integrate your cart with your forum and your blog. now thats nasty. i see this in a perspective of a developer who has had customers tending to want stuffs that aren’t with in the bounds of the cart that they wanted.