Four Free Or Open Source Shopping Carts Compared In 2010

Your choice of an e-Commerce Shopping Cart is very important. The software will either be suited or ill-suited to your type of business and your skills. A Wrong choice can make things more of a burden. This article talks about my journey to find a free Open Source Shopping Cart that I could use on my Shared Hosting accounts. Some carts had plenty of functions but lacked important ones like SEO modules. Some were well known but looked old like Web 1.2. One had plenty going for it but took up a ton of PHP memory. After this discovery adventure I present my top 2 choices.

The Journey Begins

Umbraco: Open Cart Website Solution

Content Management System (CMS) is one of the most frequently heard terms these days. Since, the world is observing a great demand in online businesses, the demand for open source solutions are also increasing. There are various open source solutions that are present in the market such as WordPress, Magento, Open cart and many more.

Need of these open source solutions came into existence when the people who started indulging in online businesses were not familiar with the technical aspect of it. Using these solutions provides a great sort of help as well as strength in context to their e-commerce websites. Since, these softwares are easy to handle and manipulate, their popularity increased in quick succession. You need not be a software engineer or developer for operating these websites. With basic computer and administrative skills you can easily do so.