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Help On Designing An Ecommerce Website by Nobody: 1:59pm On Oct 02, 2015
To all my seniors in the house, I need your help.
I have a friend who wants me to build an ecommerce website for him that will enable him sell books and videos online. The site should also allow visitors to create an account and sell their books or videos on the website too, but the site owner will get a commission on the sale.
Finally, the site should allow buyers to have a preview of the videos or ebooks they want to buy before buying.

I have been searching to see any application that can do that as I am not a core developer that will develop the app from scratch.
Please any advice or recommendation will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Re: Help On Designing An Ecommerce Website by ps3o(m): 4:11pm On Oct 02, 2015
There are ways to make the dream a reality!

(1) You can choose from several open source ecommerce platforms; OR

(2) You can get paid scripts to run on your server; OR

(3) Hire an expert in the field.

care to know more and hire a professional, contact 07031175291

Bigboyz32:
To all my seniors in the house, I need your help.
I have a friend who wants me to build an ecommerce website for him that will enable him sell books and videos online. The site should also allow visitors to create an account and sell their books or videos on the website too, but the site owner will get a commission on the sale.
Finally, the site should allow buyers to have a preview of the videos or ebooks they want to buy before buying.

I have been searching to see any application that can do that as I am not a core developer that will develop the app from scratch.
Please any advice or recommendation will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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Re: Help On Designing An Ecommerce Website by Nobody: 5:39pm On Oct 02, 2015
ps3o:
There are ways to make the dream a reality!

(1) You can choose from several open source ecommerce platforms; OR

(2) You can get paid scripts to run on your server; OR

(3) Hire an expert in the field.

care to know more and hire a professional, contact 07031175291

Thanks bro. But can you please tell me any open source ecommerce platforms that can do that.?
Secondly, are you a developer?
Re: Help On Designing An Ecommerce Website by BekBek(m): 7:43pm On Oct 02, 2015
Bigboyz32:

Thanks bro. But can you please tell me any open source ecommerce platforms that can do that.?
Secondly, are you a developer?

opencart or magneto can do that.

If you need help. I can help you build it.

here is my contact : 08094676373

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Re: Help On Designing An Ecommerce Website by ps3o(m): 8:35pm On Oct 02, 2015
Bigboyz32:

Thanks bro. But can you please tell me any open source ecommerce platforms that can do that.?
Secondly, are you a developer?

To answer your last question, I am a professional web developer.
open source ecommerce scripts:


1. Open Cart

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.
2. Magento

Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce solution offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of an online store.

Magento Features:

Site Management

Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
Multi-Lingual
Support for localization
Support for multiple currencies
Administration Permission System Roles and Users
Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets
Fully 100% customizable design using templates
Customer Groups
One-Click Upgrades
Content Management System for Informational Pages

3. osCommerce

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has since matured to a solution that is currently powering 14,055 registered live shops around the world.

Today, osCommerce has been taken to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution that not only remains easy to setup and maintain, but also making it easier for store administrators to present their stores to their customers with their own unique requirements.
4. PrestaShop

PrestaShop™ is professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free

The big advantage of open-source software: you’re never ‘locked’ to expensive commercial software.

Our dedicated team and growing user community join forces to fix bugs and add new functionality at a rate proprietary software companies can rarely claim. Join the Open Source revolution!
5. Agora Cart

AgoraCart – The powerful “Free” Open Source ecommerce shopping cart software solution that offers a very wide range of “out-of-the-box” features that allow you to setup an online ecommerce solution ranging from a simple template based store to the integration of a complex visual design concept containing all the creative magic of your web designer.

Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software with limitless flexibility in many areas including full design controls through Cascading Style Sheets (css), template systems, customizable layouts, custom individual product category layouts and templates, customization of nearly all cart features for the code hobbyist, modular “drop in and go” code as well as AgoraScript, our own scripting language inside parsed HTML pages, that experienced programmers can appreciate.
6. StoreSprite

StoreSprite is ecommerce for web designers a powerful, free php/mysql shopping cart easy to install, customise and maintain, no complex scripting to negotiate design and deploy a top rate store that your
client can manage with little or no training.
7. FreeWay

Freeway is an advanced Open Source eCommerce platform which can sell using methods only previously available in enterprise class or niche bespoke systems. Without having to purchase a commercial system and then paying a developer to build a custom installation, Freeway does what you need out of the box. Of course Freeway is great for selling products but it also sells events AND services AND subscriptions. From appointments and time based bookings to event ticketing and subscriptions Freeway is the eCommerce platform for how we want to sell.
8. UberCart

Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal, the leading open source content management system. This is a killer combination for anyone looking to build a community around a product, sell access to premium content, offer paid file downloads, and much much more!

Ubercart was designed to take advantage of Drupal’s major core and contributed systems, providing our users with shopping cart functionality that seamlessly integrates with other parts of your company or community website.
9. phpShop

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.
10. VirtueMart

VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla! (and Mambo). Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/MySQL environment.
Re: Help On Designing An Ecommerce Website by ps3o(m): 8:41pm On Oct 02, 2015
11. Magento (free)

You’ve only got to look at Magento’s client list to realise what an excellent piece of open-source software it is. Samsung, The North Face, Stussy and Nespresso all use it to power their online stores. It’s used by 30,000 merchants and is the world’s fastest growing ecommerce platform. You have to pay for the Enterprise Edition, which is packed full of extremely useful features, but the Community Edition, meant for developers only, is free to download and use.

12. osCommerce (free)

osCommerce is absolutely free under the GNU General Public License and caters very well to most people’s needs. Unsurprisingly, considering how easy it is to set up and run, it’s extremely popular, powering over 228,700 online stores. Such popularity does come with a significant downside however- it makes it harder for you to differentiate your store from the thousands of others out there. If you want to stand out from the crowd, you’re going to need to use some of the 5,800 add-ons available, some of which cost money.

13. OpenCart (free)

Not only does OpenCart look great, it’s extremely scalable. You can create an unlimited number of categories, sell an unlimited number of products, accept multiple currencies, use multiple languages, and choose from over 20 payment and 8 shipping methods. It’s user-friendly and search-engine-friendly too, so will help your prominence in Google. Customers can even review and rate the items you sell. It’s not as popular as osCommerce, so help and guidance is not so freely available, but it’s a darn sight better looking.

14. Spree Commerce (free)

Spree is an open-source ecommerce platform for Ruby on Rails. Using Spree’s extension system, you’ll be able to customise your store and mark yourself out from your competitors. Useful features include support for over 50 payment gateways, single page checkout and custom tax logic, which can save merchants lots of time and effort. It also comes with Google Analytics built in.

15. PrestaShop (free)

PrestaShop is another robust, professional-grade e-Commerce solution that you can download, install, and use for free. On the back end, you’ll use a full-featured back-office application to manage your online business (including inventory, orders, shipping, and customers) in real-time. Your customer’s payments are sent directly to your commerical bank account using the latest security technology.

16. VirtueMart (free)

VirtueMart, which has been designed to work alongside Joomla!, is a really neat cart which customers feel instantly comfortable with. Not only does it let customers buy things, it lets them create an account, add addresses and access their order history. Multiple languages and currencies, and unlimited products and categories are supported. 2.5 million people have downloaded VirtueMart so far and the vast majority is happy with the results.
7. Ubercart (free)

Ubercart is specifically designed for people selling things like file downloads, event registrations, website access passes and event tickets, rather than physical products. Like VirtueMart, which must be integrated with Joomla!, Ubercart must be integrated with Drupal. Drupal users will feel comfortable choosing the ideal modules and themes to customise their shop with, but if you’re not a Drupal user, I suggest choosing a platform that’s a little more straightforward.

18. Zeuscart (free)

The best thing about Zeuscart is its user interface, which is rich, attractive, user-friendly and generally less boring than most of the open-source UIs that I have to look at on a daily basis. Designed with small and medium businesses in mind, users can make the most of SEO friendly URLs, gift cards, discounts, email templates and tier-pricing, which makes it possible to decrease prices for bulk orders.

19. Afcommerce (free)

If you want to keep your ecommerce platform really, really simple, then Afcommerce could be the option for you. It’s not particularly good looking, neither on the customer nor the user side, but it works right out of the box and is ideal for beginners. It has a speedy one-page checkout, customer help pop-up windows and customer accounts are generated automatically from orders.

20. Zen Cart (free)

Easy to install, easy to customise and easy to manage, Zen Cart is perfect for those who want a straightforward ecommerce platform without the fuss. It comes with a newsletter manager, discount coupons, gift certificates and all the basic features you’d expect. Users can make the most of the numerous add-ons available to customise their store and make their admin experience a little easier. Too many add-ons, however, and the UI does get rather cluttered, which is a downside of the platform.

21. SimpleCart js (free)

SimpleCart(js) 2.0 is no longer only for Paypal. It now works with Google Checkout as well. You can now add increment, decrement, and remove buttons to your cart. You can also rearrange items, change the HTML tags, do whatever you like to display your cart how you want. No databases, no programming, no headaches. A simple javascript shopping cart in under 20kb that you can setup in minutes. It’s lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable. All you need to know is basic HTML.

22. Tomato Cart (free)

TomatoCart is the new generation of open source shopping cart solution. It is branched from osCommerce 3 as a separate project. As web applications become more and more sophisticated, modern web 2.0 technology such as Ajax and Rich Internet Applications offers significant usability improvements and makes interacting with the web interfaces faster and more efficient.

23. CubeCart (free)

CubeCart is great. It integrates really well into all kinds of sites and looks very professional from the customers’ point of view. CubeCart 3 is free and CubeCart 4, the premium platform, costs £110. There are a number of significant differences between the two: CubeCart 3 has 3 skins, CubeCart 4 has 5; CubeCart 3 has 4 payment steps, CubeCart 4 has 2; customer registration is mandatory in CubeCart 3, but optional in CubeCart 4 etc etc etc. I recommend investing in CubeCart 4 if you’re serious about using the platform for a long time, but suggest you give 3 a go first to see if you like the feel of it.

24. RokQuickCart (free)

RokQuickCart is a very, very simple cart for Joomla!. Its simplicity, however, is both a help and a hindrance as although it can be set up in minutes, it lacks some features which you’ll find in other platforms in this list, for example, it only accepts payments through PayPal and Google Checkout. Having said that, it generally looks good and product image display is impressive.

25. StoreSprite (free)

Despite being completely free, StoreSprite offers many features that you’d expect to find only on paid-for and more popular platforms. These include loyalty points, customer ratings and reviews, status notifications, order tracking, special offers, best sellers and shopper accounts. The main drawback of the platform is that your store will come with visible StoreSprite copyright notices, unless you pay to have them removed.
Re: Help On Designing An Ecommerce Website by Nobody: 10:21pm On Oct 02, 2015
ps3o:


To answer your last question, I am a professional web developer.
open source ecommerce scripts:
I will contact you soon bro
Re: Help On Designing An Ecommerce Website by ps3o(m): 2:27pm On Oct 03, 2015
Bigboyz32:

I will contact you soon bro

Whatsapp/call 07031175291

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