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PrestaShop eCommerce Shopping Cart Setup

Posted by Emily on January 28th, 2010

PrestaShop is a great ecommerce Shopping cart for any online retail website. It is a fully functioning shopping cart, with multi-currency ability, multiple out of the box payment gateways and plug-in modules. With our Linux Hosting there is a 1-click installer that allows you to install the application. Here are some of the key features, besides an intuitive user interface:

Dynamic Ordering Cart Update
Google™ Checkout module
SMS/Text-message alerts
PDF customer invoice
Customer product reviews
Payment by bank wire / COD
Bar codes
Tax by state, country, both, zones, or no taxes
100% modifiable graphic themes
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Friendly URLs / Permalinks

Here are some of the included Payment Modules:

These are some of the Included ecommerce tools, notice the 1-click install:

To start your online store, or to upgrade your current retail website go here for 1-click PrestaShop install hosting.

Tags: eCommerce, PrestaShop, Shopping Cart

Top 10 Open Source eCommerce Web Site Software

Posted by Emily on January 26th, 2010

Here is a Rundown of the Top 10 e-Commerce Applications we have found and offer with Easy 1-Step Installs. All of our Linux Hosting Plans Feature over 130 Open Source Software Installers. Here is a list of our Top 10 eCommerce Site Software Installers, and feel free to add your comments and suggestions! We suggest you try a few of them on your Linux Hosting plan, as installation is a snap!

	My Favorite, Must Try! Shop owners appreciate PrestaShop’s easy-to-use Back Office tool for adding and fine-tuning their storefronts (Front Office). With new & sophisticated Back-Office functionality added regularly, shop owners don’t need to rely on others to make their Front Office look and act the way they want it to. Thanks to its use of CSS and transplantable module blocks, the PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution can be customized for small or medium-sized businesses working within tight deadlines.
	CubeCart is an “out of the box” ecommerce shopping cart software solution which has been written to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store which can be used to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers all over the world.
	osCommerce has attracted a large growing e-commerce community that consists of over 228,200 store owners and developers who support each other and extend osCommerce Online Merchant with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 5,800 add-ons that are available for free to customize osCommerce Online Merchant online stores and to help increase sales.
	#1 Customer Rated. This e-Commerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. Magento is awesome, I would never believe it is an open-source project. It features clean urls and SEO from the start. Everything is designed in a clean and simple way. Magento also features: Unlimited flexibility, Completely Scalable Architecture, Professional and Community Support, and Smooth Integration with 3rd party apps.
	Freeway allows you to manage your store using web-based administration interface. Built-in SEO tools will help attracting more visitors from search engines and increase your sales. Freeway is scalable, it will grow with your internet business so you can sell how you want to sell adding new functionality with ease.
	PHPshop‘s 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. We were recently informed the PHPshop is no longer active and is now under the name VirtueMart.
	Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and shold be done differently.
	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. A great feature of OpenCart is that customers can write their own reviews of the products.
	WHMCS is an all-in-one client management, billing & support solution for online businesses. WHMCS handles everything from signup to termination, with automated billing, provisioning & management. With WHMCS, you’re in control with a very powerful business automation tool. Great Software, it runs our Sales and Hosting Platform at RackWire.com.
	WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in mind. The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online. It is a must try for WordPress users!

These tools are so easy to use, I persanally use PrestaShop for my Jewelry Store I am trying to get off the ground. Remember to Support Open-Source teams! You can also click here to sign up for our Linux Shared Hosting, only $50/yr!