35 Most Popular Open Source Shopping Cart Software

Zen cart is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants who have first-hand experience in e-commerce. Zen Cart is the outcome of their continuous mutual work. It is a free and user-friendly shopping cart, and is distributed as an open source software.

http://www.zen-cart.com

osCommerce is a free, open source online shop software. The default installation includes a large number of features that you can easily enable and configure. You can easily install osCommerce on your website with the help of the Fantastico auto-installer.

With osCommerce shopping cart you can add multiple products on your site, organize them in categories, set discounts and special promotions. osCommerce allows you to set your prices in different currencies and accept all popular payment methods: PayPal, credit cards, cheques. osCommerce has a built-in shipping and tax functionalities.

http://www.osCommerce.com

Virtuemart (formerly known as php-Shop) is an independent open-source shopping cart solution. However, it is better known as an e-commerce component for Mambo or Joomla! CMS.

http://www.virtuemart.com

Magento is the latest open source eCommerce platform on the web. It offers professional features, flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of the online shop. With Magento you can establish an e-business with convenient product and catalog browser options, extended customer management, advanced analytics, reporting and marketing promotions tools, and much more. Magento has an intuitive administration interface, it is completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network.

http://www.MagentoCommerce.com

AspDotNetStorefront is a complete e-commerce storefront with an easy-to-use admin web site. SQL Schema included. Full source code in C# or VB.NET available. Google checkout and site maps supported. PABP certified! Supports ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005.

http://www.AspDotNetStorefront.com/

nopCommerce is new but very popular open source e-commerce solution. nopCommerce is available for free. A solution with comprehensive features that is easy to use for new online businesses, yet powerful enough for the most demanding e-commerce expert. It’s a secure, scalable and extendable e-commerce platform.

http://www.nopcommerce.com/

dashCommerce is an open source e-commerce software developed with ASP.NET & using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for storing data. dashCommerce has a functional interface which lets you navigate through the products with unlimited sub-menus or browse the products by price. This shopping cart software also offers commercial versions which includes support for the product.

http://www.DashCommerce.com/

GetShopped is a free WordPress plugin for adding e-commerce capabilities into WordPress-powered websites. It is a very easy-to-setup plugin which can work with any standards compliant WordPress theme (and WordPress MU).

http://www.Getshopped.org

Tutorialzine is sharing a beautiful tutorial (with source) on creating an Ajaxed drag’n drop shopping cart with jQuery & PHP. It uses MySQL for storing the data & simpleTip plugin for displaying information about the products with style.

http://www.Tutorialzine.com

BigCommerce is an easy-to-use hosted e-commerce software which makes your store up & running so quickly. BigCommerce is integrated with almost every payment, shipping & accounting system you can think of. Optionally, it offers its own merchant account system with under-the-market rates. The software is fully optimized for SEO from valid W3C templates to automatically generated sitemap XML file & SEO-firendly links.

http://www.bigcommerce.com

SimpleCart(js) is a very simple but smart shopping cart that was shared on WRD, now has a new version with more features. The application is an upload & use shopping cart where no database is required and can be integrated into any website so easily.

http://www.simplecartjs.com/

CRE Loaded PCI CE is an open source e-commerce software which is the lighter, but still strong, version of a paid solution. It is designed to run on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server and offers lots of features which you can add more as it comes with the source.

http://www.creloaded.com

OpenCart is an open source shopping cart that is built with PHP & stores the data in MySQL. The application has every standard feature for an e-commerce website.

http://www.opencart.com/

jCart is a very simple & free shopping cart script that is built with PHP & jQuery. It offers a base Ajaxed basket interface that can be improved further by implementing the checkout pages.

http://www.ConceptLogic.com

OXID eSales is an open source e-commerce application built with PHP & uses MySQL for storing the data. It has a modular and standards-based architecture which makes customization easy.

http://www.oxid-esales.com/

Freeway is a feature-rich open source e-commerce platform which lets you sell services, subscriptions or events besides the standard products. This e-commerce application is built with PHP and uses MySQL as the database.

http://www.OpenFreeway.org

Übercart is an e-commerce suite developed for Drupal. With the end user in mind, focusing on usability at store configuration, product – catalog creation and order administration, Übercart is a simple yet powerful shopping cart solution.

http://www.ubercart.org/

PrestaShop is a complicated open source e-commerce solution. Having a very powerful back-end, store admins can manage the inventory, orders, customers & payments easily. System never limits you as it supports unlimited categories, sub-categories & image pictures. Sub-admin users can be created with different permissions so when someone can only track the inventory another admin can be limited to processing the orders.

http://www.PrestaShop.com

LiteCommerce is a lightweight high-tech ecommerce solution devoted to make an internet store launching process as easy as surfing the Web. LiteCommerce is more than just a shopping cart. It is a multipurpose ecommerce store platform. Numerous built-in features will make your online store and your business successful: inventory management, credit card processing, SEO tools, special offers, discount coupons and others.

http://www.LiteCommerce.com/

AdVantShop .NET is ASP.NET-based open source platform for online store creation. Our shopping cart engine allows store owners to build a secure, expandable and flexible solution based on technologies from Microsoft. AdVantShop .NET can be used for a ready-made online store as well as for developing unique solution based on your needs.

http://www.Advantshop.comm

X-Cart is a PHP shopping cart software & it’s good for ecommerce businesss solutions. X-Cart has a W3C-compliant storefront with a CSS-based layout. And it comes with several professional e-commerce design templates. X-Cart team offers professional design creation and custom programming services. You can get a unique storefront design and a custom-made functionality to ensure the web store meets your business needs completely.

http://www.X-Cart.com/

Zeuscart team is well-committed to redefine the open source community, by improving the usability of a software and by introducing rich user interface.

http://www.zeuscart.com

JadaSite is an open sourced content management and e-commerce system. JadaSite is licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) V3. The GPL v3 is a popular license and we believe this license will ensure greatest interoperability with other code in the open source community. Contributors and developers can includes existing code into JadaSite without fears that the new code may be incompatible with JadaSite.

http://www.Jadasite.com/

CS-Cart is an “out of the box” ecommerce software solution with easy-to-use functionality that allows to start selling online immediately. Its feature set fits into businesses of any size, from a small single-product shop to a fully-featured online storefront.

http://www.cs-cart.com/

Flying Cart is a dead simple way to create an online store. It also allows you to network with other stores so that your website can appear on a ton of other stores, driving a lot more traffic to your site!

http://www.Flyingcart.com/

LiveCart allows to change and tweak the look of store pages with unseen ease. The flexible architecture enables custom changes of any complexity. LiveCart offers a surprisingly powerful and effective admin backend, which puts you in complete control of every part of your store. LiveCart is perfectly suited for local markets. Everything can be presented in multiple languages, and products can be priced in several currencies.

http://www.LiveCart.com

FastSpring® provides an all-in-one e-commerce payment processing, merchandising, and fulfillment solution. Sell your software, games, e-books, or other digital products online. Enable your customers to pay globally using Visa®, Mastercard®, American Express®, Discover®, PayPal™, check, purchase order, or money order. FastSpring builds you a highly customizable, hosted order page that seamlessly integrates with your existing website and its design.

http://www.FastSpring.com/

ProductCart is quality shopping cart software used by thousands of businesses to run a professional Internet storefront. You need the best ecommerce software you can find, and our shopping carts are the result of over 8 years of listening to our customers.

http://www.EarlyImpact.com/

This is the great first web portal on IIS tecnologies. Store Portal is a first complete software for management your web portal. It include Web Pages administrator, guestbook, forum, banner, shop module, feedback and more.

http://www.StorePortal.com/

bxCommerce is the premier eCommerce application developed to fully integrate your business model. bxCommerce combines eCommerce with campaign management, advanced merchandising, data-mining, inventory and warehouse management, accounting integration, and personalization to execute the most advanced multi channeled eCommerce system available.

http://www.bxCommerce.com

Znode Storefront is the leading ASP.NET 2.0 storefront solution that has been designed specifically for developers and system integrators. Znode Storefront is extremely easy to customize using the included ASP.NET, C# source code. This framework allows developers to build custom tailored, user friendly e-commerce websites for their clients with all the functionality they need to successfully sell online. Znode Storefront supports 80 major payment gateways and integrates directly with UPS for real-time shipping rates.

http://www.Znode.com

Digistore Ecommerce 4.0 is a fully featured open source ecommerce solution based on the popular osCommerce engine. Boasting improvements both to the administration and the end user experience – Digistore has quickly become a popular choice for people wishing to market products online.
Digistore Features:

http://www.digistore.co.nz

Satchmo’s mission is to use Django to create an open source framework for creating unique and robust online stores. To provide maximum flexibility, Satchmo is licensed under the BSD license. Satchmo is based on the Django framework, therefore you do need a fully functioning Django instance to use Satchmo. The Django installation guide will step you through the process.

http://www.SatchmoProject.com

Based on combined extensive experience of more than 10 years in open source, supply chain management and proprietary tools, we now deliver a full object oriented, flexible tool that can match with the most professional tools worldwide.

http://www.Batavi.org

ShopCMS is a professional Internet store script which organizes electronic commerce at the highest level. ShopCMS is one of the most advanced products in e-commerce, that have many unique features without analogues at any other similar system. It is an affordable, professional software which is powerful and reliable application to fulfil your online store needs.

http://www.shopcmssoft.com/