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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!

Tags: eCommerce, Linux, Open Source, Shopping Cart

RackWire.com Supports Startup Companies and Open Source Software Development

Posted by Mike on November 11th, 2009

My second real Sofware Job was with a Startup Company in San Fransisco, CA called Plumtree Software. Plumtree was the inventor of the Corporate Portal, and we were on a mission to make it the best corporate portal out there. It was a fast paced, fast growing environment back in 2000. Well today, there are less investors and more software companies.

RackWire.com Supports Start Up Companies, Open Source Software Provides, and Non-Profit Organizations. If you have a emerging company that is out to benefit others though developing a great application or technology, helping a community or offering open source software we want to help your business causes. We would like to leverage your software as well as offer hosting of your applications. Contact us with information about your new emerging company today, knowing that we have all been in the startup mode or planning phase at some point.

We are even interested in hearing from Facebook and iPhone application developers who are in the process of getting their companies off the ground. Feel free to send an e-mail to Partners@RackWire.com to get in touch with our Partner Team today.

Mike

RackWire.com

Tags: Facebook, iPhone, Non-Profit Web Hosting, Open Source, Startup Company