Open Source eCommerce

OsCommerce Customization
OsCommerce has a number of store owners on its books, notable customers include TruffleShuffle and LinuxUk. Notable Features:

  • Supports unlimited products and categories
  • Multicurrency support
  • Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
  • Object oriented PHP backend
  • Web Browser Install and Plugin support

ZenCart Customization
Zencartfs website doesnft do justice to the professionalism of the end product, and although it doesnft not offer as many payment processing options as OsCommerce and other e-commerce platforms it is a more mature product, with OsCommerce often taking quite a long time to release fixes for important issues such as security. Notable Features:

  • User frontend is validated to XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • Any PHP coding changes can be protected during upgrades by using the built-in override protection system
  • Integrate with phpBB
  • Meta Tags keywords and descriptions can be controlled at the per-product level

VirtueMart Customization
VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution designed to be used with Joomla! (but also works with Mambo). Joomla and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made for easy use in a PHP / MySQL environment. Notable Features:

  • Stock Level Control for Products and Item
  • Ajax-powered Product Overview allows to quickly add Products to the cart
  • Product Attributes (like Size or Color) can be added to Product
  • Manage different Currencies, Countries & States
  • Product Availability: show how fast a Customer can expect delivery

Magento
Varien, a Los Angeles web development firm is the brainchild behind Magento, and my what a fantastic job they have done on this product. Itfs by far one of the more exciting e-commerce platforms available for free on the market today. Dripping with features, they really have thought of everything. Wishlists, shop by price and category, item comparison ? all the things wefve come to expect from professional web stores. Notable Features:

  • Integrated with Google Analytics
  • Multiple Images with Zoom
  • Add to Wishlist
  • Send to a Friend
  • Batch Import and Export of Catalog
  • One Page Checkout
  • Multi Lingual

X-Cart
Whilst not free, X-Cart costs $229.00 for the Gold version (see features here) and $575.00 for the professional version (see features here). X-Cart is well thought of piece of software amongst the developer community. Notable Features:

  • Unlimited product options
  • Variety of payment gateways
  • Import/export all types of X-Cart
  • Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation
  • Support for E-goods
  • Membership levels and membership-based pricing
  • Add-To-Cart buttons for existing websites