Top 3 Ecommerce Cart Solutions

With literally hundreds of hours of playing and researching with ecommerce solutions I finally bring you the top 3 FREE E-cart’s in today’s market. Free 5 years ago always meant too good to be true. Free today is an entire different story. The following Top 3 Ecommerce Cart Solutions are extremely powerful and can more than likely meet all your online business needs.

Magento is currently taking the online community by storm. Its robust platform and sleek and sexy feel leaves everything else in the dust. It has ‘EVERYTHING’ you can think of by the default install and you can even manage promotions and very detailed information at the snap of a finger. Magento is great for SEO and has amazing design right out of the box. One of the cons i found with Magento is that it takes awhile to load at times but with good reason. It’s BIG and has alot of resources behind it. If you are starting to bring your business online simply choose a great Host that has lightning fast servers that can handle Magento - and 1-click installs so you don’t have to mess around with getting things set up. Simple Helix provides both of these features and is the only Host i would trust running Magento on, unless you have your own dedicated server. Worth the investment if you want a brilliant ecommerce cart solution that is better than most paid solutions.

If you have heard of people online talk badly about oscommerce it’s usually because its so ugly. BUT if you have a graphic designer this can be one of the most flexible and powerful solutions on the web. It’s been around since 2003 and there are alot of developers that are on forums to help you with basically anything. If you have time, and are looking for one of the most trusted oscommerce platforms then oscommerce is your best bet. My personal experience with oscommerce has been pretty good but you will have to do some SEO updates and change some configurations to get where you want to be with this beast. Again, if you have a good graphic designer on hand then i would take a look into oscommerce.

Zen Cart is my #3 because the people at Zen Cart are doing a really good job at keeping up to date and making sure people are really getting a great ecommerce solution. It’s now nearly tableless which is great for SEO and modern browsers and its community seems to be holding up pretty good even after the release of Magento. Zen Cart has been around for a few years much like osCommerce and that’s very important when looking at an e-Cart solution because with time comes a larger community, and the larger the community the more help you have when you run into any problems.

With solutions like the 3 i just mentioned business is going to change drastically. There are hundreds of companies at this very moment stategizing on how to implement their services into these open source e-Cart solutions. They are not just Free - they are extremely powerful. You can customize all 3 of these solutions to match your website and with some html experience or one (1) developer, you can have a very nice ecommerce site up and running in no time.

Even though Magento is young, it is still by far the best ecommerce solution right now. I suggest browsing their site and just looking at the features. By using Magento your site will be modern, it will be designed well, and you will have tools at your fingertips that costs thousands of dollars just a few years ago. And oh yeah, if you plan on using one of these e-cart solutions make sure you have something that people would want to buy first!:)

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