1.Shopify
Currently the leading ecommerce platform for many small business owners, Shopify has an extensive collection of more than 100 beautifully designed professional themes for your online shop. The themes can either be free or paid and are fully compatible with Shopify platform. Users love Shopify because of its flexible tools and apps for extending functionality on your online store. As of now, there are more than 1,100 different Shopify apps to available on Shopify’s app market.
2. Bigcommerce
Founded by Mitchell Harper and Eddie Machaalani, Bigcommerce is currently one of the fastest-growing brands in the ecommerce industry. As a leading SaaS provider, Bigcommerce is estimated to be earning more than $10 billion annually. It has a total of around 56 million merchants worldwide and is expected to grow double in 2018. Bigcommerce offers three different levels of pricing on its shopping cart along with services and features you can get for a monthly subscription.
3. Wix
Hosting more than 80 million websites, Wix is well known in the web building landscape. Designed for small business and online store, the software has one of the best mobile optimization systems having numerous apps available for users to use in its own Wix App Market. Anyone can build their own ecommerce store in Wix without prior coding skills. Wix has an intuitive interface that makes it easy for anyone to do drag-and-drop build their own site. With Wix, you can also include various media including animations, video backgrounds and more.
4. Woocommerce
WordPress may have started as a blogging platform, but now with its free e-commerce plugins like Woocommerce, the blogging site is easily becoming a great tool to build digital shops. With the Woocommerce plugin, users can easily integrate their website with its own ecommerce platform and pick among the free and paid themes in its collection. Built by WooThemes, Woocommerce is currently one of the most popular free eCommerce plugin for WordPress and is used by more than 17.7% of ecommerce business on the internet.
5. GoDaddy Online store
Starting at around $29.9 per month, GoDaddy’s online store is an easy-to-use ecommerce platform giving merchants the best bang for their buck. It has many attractive themes and storefront to choose from, along with custom features that supports customers every wants and needs. Popularly known for its online hosting service, Go Daddy proves that it can also be paired side by side with some of the best e-commerce software.
6. Magento
Having one of the most flexible shopping cart systems in all other e-commerce software, Magento remains one of the most powerful ecommerce tool for various online business big or small. Like Woocommerce, Magento is an open source product, which means that the code is available for anyone to modify and customize. It promotes the idea of sharing which many developers appreciate.
7. Selz
Selz is an ecommerce platform that helps you sell your digital products including e-books, PDF files, video streams, and music. The company was founded in 2013 by Australian Martin Rushe, and is one of the newer eCommerce platforms in the list. It works well in businesses run by start-ups, artists, musicians or writers. With Selz you can start selling without much further knowledge in CSS or HTML.
8. PrestaShop
Targeting small to medium business owners, PrestaShop is a free open source e-commerce software that is currently used by more than 250,000 shops worldwide. It is currently available in 60 languages and caters well for people with a minimal tech background. Great for entrepreneurs with a low budget, PrestaShop offers simple and efficient platform for business regardless of size.
9. Modular Merchant
Modular Merchant is a software providing ecommerce solutions for owners selling subscription, downloaded media, and shipped products. It has web-based shopping cart software that can easily be integrated with your online store to manage and engage with your customers efficiently while tracking results. It’s very easy to use and gives the owner full control over the site: you can sell on any schedule, sell free trial products and track your traffic, statistics, and downloads. Featured photo credit: pixabay.com via pixabay.com
