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Which Is The Best Ecommerce
Platform For Entrepreneurs?
Source: https://selfstartr.com/ecommerce-platforms/
Top 10 Most Popular Ecommerce
Platforms 2015
Source: http://cmsmart.net/blog/top-10-most-popular-ecommerceplatforms-2015.html
2015 was a year of very strong development of e-commerce. Besides the rapid
development of ecommerce, the needs to build ecommerce websites also
increased a lot. Therefore, the technology to build a website in general, building
ecommerce websites in particular are being earmarked for the development and
upgrading to help customers more easily to use and support more useful
features.
To create an e-commerce website, we can mention a lot of diffirent open
source/ecommerce platforms. To be able to help those who are in need of
building an ecommerce site can find an appropriate solution, in this article I will
introduce to you the top 10 most popular ecommerce platforms at the
moment.
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1. WooCommerce (31.6%)
This is the most popular ecommerce platform in the world with over 30% market
share. Developed since 2008, over the long-term development then
woocommerce has gained trust from the users. Thanks to the very powerful
features, convenience and useful that today WooCommerce become an
ecommerce platform used by more than 400,000 websites worldwide.
Maybe we do not need to talk more about this platform, it is no coincidence that
Woocommerce are on top of the chart.
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2/ Magento (12.5%)
Magento is a very famous name; this is a dedicated platform to create
ecommerce websites. Magento be appreciated thanks to the powerful features,
huge community and the supports from many developers. In addition, we can
easily search and use many Magento extensions or Magento themes on market
place to add/upgrade the features of your sites.
Magento always be a good choice to building an ecommerce website!
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3. Shopify (7.5%)
Shopify is an ecommerce solution which help you can create an ecommerce
store easily without knowledge about hosting/server. Special, Shopify support
many of the features for the sales through mobile devices (smartphone,
tablet…).
With many different prices for the different plans (Min: $9 for Lite, Max: $179 for
Unlimited version), customers can choose the plan which is the most suitable
for their business.
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4. VirtueMart (6.8%)
Virtuemart run based on Joomla, a popular open source. Virtuemart inherits the
powerful functionality of Joomla and adding more special features to support ecommerce. Users can also use many Virtuemart extensions and Virtuemart
templates to upgrade their website.
In 2015, Virtuemart market share slightly decreased compared with 2014. But
with the effort from the developer, the new versions of Virtuemart was updated
with many features consistent with trends helped Virtuemart partially regain
market share from other platforms. Virtuemart is still a worthwhile choice!
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5. PrestaShop (5.7%)
Prestashop is also a familiar name, was established in 2005, PrestaShop is a
free, open source e-commerce solution.
Prestashop supported for 2 versions: cloud-hosting and self-hosting, it allows
customers to have more options when creating an online store. In addition, with
a huge community of users and developers, prestashop also has a lot of
modules, themes to support users.
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6. BigCommerce (5%)
Bigcommerce is a privately held technology company that develops ecommerce
software for businesses. Works a bit similar with Shopify, Bigcommerce also
has many different prices for different objects, for individuals ($ 29.95 / month)
and for businesses ($ 79.95 / month – and more).
With bigcommerce, users do not need to know much about web programming
knowledge, the features of Bigcommerce has been integrated and optimized for
the user.
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7. OpenCart (3.9%)
OpenCart is a robust ecommerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability
to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal
cost.
You can register and create an online store with ease. Opencart has been
integrated these features useful for ecommerce, so you can use immediately
after setting up the basic information.
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8. osCommerce (2.7%)
OsCommerce provide you the tools to set up your very own complete and selfhosted online store website for free to market and securely sell products and
services to customers worldwide. OsCommerce also offers you more than 7000
free addons which helps you upgrade your site.
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9. IBM Websphere (2.5%)
A product of a famous brand of computer products: IBM. When we’re hearing
about the name IBM, we immediately think about computer hardware,
softwares… However, IBM Websphere is an ecommerce solution was
developed by IBM. Perhaps IBM Websphere is developing towards businesses
more than individual objects, so that is why IBM Websphere is not as common
as other platforms.
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10. Volusion (2.2%)
Volusion is an all-in-one e-commerce solution that gives online retailers the
ability to build and run an effective e-store and sell the products they want to the
people they want. Customizable templates makes designing an e-store easy
and fun and all of Volusion’s templates are mobile-ready, allowing their users to
reach all potential customers and let them buy however they like.
Volusion’s software also gives users marketing tools to build sales, like email
marketing campaigns and newsletters to keep their customers up to date with
all of the new products or promotions they are offering.