This article is the extension of our Previous Article “Technologies for Ecommerce Website Development”. In last article we cover the

1. Magento: Popular for extensibility, development, management & consumer friendly options. It also support multi-store and multi-site functionality.

2. OpenCart: Popular for free design templates and plugins for advance functionality but not like a CMS.

Lets proceed with some more platforms for ecommerce development.

3. PrestaShop Ecommerce Application Development: It is an open source e-commerce web application that was launched in 2005. PrestaShop requires at least Apache web server 1.3, PHP 5, MySQL 5 and a Linux, Unix or Windows installed operating system. PrestaShop makes use of the well-known Smarty templating engine, and can handle multiple templates being installed at one time. PrestaShop has a better module folder structure than OpenCart. The common complaint with PrestaShop is lack of development documentation, though does seems to be improving with time.

4. Drupal Ecommerce Application Development: Even though it is not a specialist Ecommerce Platform, still it is quite popular because of its large community and vast array of extension. It is quite popular and have a major edge because of being a CMS instead of just an Ecommerce-system. The Ecommerce plugin enhances Ecommerce functionality of the Drupal CMS. Drupal can be trickier is in overriding core functionality. Often the only way to do so is to copy a core module, alter it, and make the same changes whenever updating in future.

Even though it has extensive and varied support communities to spend hours to look for help but Ecommerce is never a native functionality in Drupal. It comes as an Add-on which often posses traumatic situations while setting categories, products and related products.

5. osCommerce Ecommerce Application Development: “Open Source Commerce” is an e-commerce and online store- management software program. It is a most used platform despite history of poor security, difficult maintenance and spaghetti code. osCommerce is extremely poor when it comes to development. Almost all development work involves modifying core files, and those are largely procedural code. Where it does score well, however, it ubiquity of hosting.

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Ref: http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/open-source-php-e-commerce-platforms/

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Consumers are receptive to new things and like to experience it. In the process, when they receive an extra value they start accepting it into their daily life. Similar observation is seen in Online shopping trends in India. In a survey done by ASSOCHAM in 2011, it was found that about 40 per cent among those surveyed across cities like the aforesaid cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Lucknow and Jaipur said that they prefer to shop online. In fact this inclination among the youth is going to help the online retail industry to reach Rs 7,000 crore marks by 2015, ASSOCHAM predicts.

Amidst such observation, organizations with strong presence at their market place are getting resilient to such trends and putting a step forward to open up Ecommerce store to provide 24 X 7 shopping experience to consumers and customers. If as an organization you are also thinking to open up a new ecommerce store, we can provide you a quick guide about trending technologies and user expectations for a successful ecommerce website development.

Technologies for Ecommerce Website Development:-

1. Magento

2. OpenCart

3. PrestaShop

4. Drupal

5. osCommerce

1. Magento Ecommerce Application Development: It is an open source e-commerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. The Magento ecommerce system has been widely adopted by online retailers with 150,000 sites known to use it ranging from smaller ecommerce websites to large multinational businesses such as Harvey Nichols and Samsung.

Magento Development involves several key coding practices like flexible product display options, mobile templates, transaction options, multi-store and multi-site functionality, user accounts and loyalty programs, product categorization and shopper filtering, and discount and promotion rules that make the system versatile and adaptable as an Magento e-commerce platform Development.

In relatively short time span, it has gained remarkable success and acceptability in developer’s community for ecommerce website development because of its extensibility, development, management and consumer friendly options.

2. OpenCart Ecommerce Application Development: If you want a speedy way to get started with ecommerce website online with easy to use code base, Open cart is certainly a good option. It is largely popular for Small Ecommerce startups to get online with full features ecommerce website in relatively lesser time and cost. It doesn’t give you a sound CMS with access to edit content, versioning of documents, publishing dates, commenting on posts and so on. You don’t even get CMS with basic blog functionality.

An important feature of OpenCart is largely the (by using a template engine) free design possibilities in design and functionality, and the ability of one or more of many modules (extra programs) in the software to implement.

………………to be continued

Watch out Quick Review about other technologies in our Next Article.

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