Starting an online business - e-commerce software

Designed for Online Merchants

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

Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.

Some "solutions" seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users' needs, Zen Cart™ puts the merchants and shoppers requirements first. Similarly, other programs are nearly impossible to install and use without an IT degree, Zen Cart™ can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills.

There are hundreds of shopping cart programs available, but none come close to offering to level of options, features and support available with Zen Cart™. Even the commercial programs have a hard time competing.

Designed with shoppers in mind.
Developers and designers love it.
A long list of features.
Strong, growing, helpful online community.

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OpenCart
http://www.opencart.com/

OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.

OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

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osc2nuke
http://osc2nuke.com

osc2nuke is the combination of 2 top of the line opensource products, PHPnuke CMS and OScommmerce shopping cart. osc2nuke fills the gap between the 2 world of PHPnuke and OScommmerce and grant to the project users acces to thousand of phpnuke themes, modules and blocks while it also make possible the installation of OScommerce ressources.

Who use osc2nuke ?
osc2nuke is for people that are in need of a solid reliable shopping cart and CMS product, user from oscommerce who need to add more functionality to their site and PHPnuke users who need the most reliable shopping cart available for their CMS.

why do we have 2 versions ?
osc2nuke MODULE also called osc2nuke universal is for users who are already running a site and want to add Oscommerce to this site. osc2nuke FULL version is for users who are starting from scratch and dont want to configure and install everything 2 times.

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cpCommerce
http://cpcommerce.cpradio.org/

cpCommerce is an open-source e-commerce solution that is maintained by templates and modules.

This Ecommerce Script combines many utilities found in other "free" ecommerce scripts, except I allow you to completely customize the entire design by editing a single template file and the CSS (Cascading StyleSheets) each section pertains to. Due to how the script was developed, the program finds your template, and is told where to place each element in the program using easy to read tags.

Some of the basic necessities needed to run cpCommerce is a web server that is both PHP and MySQL enabled and you will need at least 5 MB of storage.

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osCMax
http://www.oscmax.com/

osCMax v2.0 is a powerful e-commerce/shopping cart web application. There are many advantages to using osCMax as your e-commerce/shopping cart for your web site. It has all the features needed to run a successful internet store and can be customized to whatever configuration you need.

Other advantages:

• Unlimited Products and Categories
• Gift Vouchers/Coupons
• Download/Virtual Product support
• Secure/Stable code base
• Web Based admin Panel
• Supports PayPal, AuthorizeNet, Real time credit card processing
• Supports UPS, USPS and Fed X shipping
• Unlimited product Specials
• Separate customer groups (Retail, Wholesale, or add your own groups)
• Compatible with most other mods available for osCommerce.
• 100% FREE!

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phpShop
www.phpshop.org

phpShop is a PHP-powered shopping cart application. It is released under the GNU General Public License. The primary purpose of phpShop is to provide a simple shopping cart solution that is easy to customize to suit any purpose. phpShop has less features that many other shopping cart applications, but is generally easier to customize. All that is required to effectively customize phpShop is a basic knowledge of HTML, PHP, and SQL.