Owm host reliable service hosting is the best open source .You can work in a admin panel using this os.
oscommerce , zencart use them , also try to get fantastico web hosting to get easy click based installation.
which plugin? i have a wordpress site that sells shirts, i want to implement a cart system and if its a simple as adding a WP plugin i would love to know what that plugin is!! thanks
Prestashop - absolutely superb. Great modules, great support forum, slightly weird but when you get your head round it, it all makes sense. New version to be released at the end of March
After using OS commerce and Zencart. I feel that Zen Cart is much more better and more user friendly. Maybe i lack of knowledge with it so i use Zen cart will be more easy to me.
Personally find, Virtual Mart from Joomla has better interface. But, when you have plugin in your application, it affects your hosting performance. You may have to monitor your hosting performance from time to time and make sure your hosting is at the maximum performance. All the best!
If you are looking for some free script then Zen Cart an OS Commerce is the best for you. There are lot of good paid scripts are also available.
I agree with the others- those other carts are limited junk. Check out Magento! Over the last 10 years, I've built a storefront in os commerce, zen cart, cube cart and Magento. If you want to look like you got it free, choose one of the others. If you want to look professional, choose magento. Oh, and Joomla is good, but very complex and not friendly scalable.
You can find components for joomla to create a shopping cart. If you use two system for just one site, it will be complicated for you to manage, as well for the users to understand. zencart, oscommerce, opencart etc are better for e-commerce, you need to check which one do you find easy to use or as per your requirements. You can see their demo on the relative websites. Magento is also good but it's difficult to customize when it comes to the coding for the developer. So it will take time + money... if it's not an issue then think about Magento too
The problem of prestashop is that payment methods are non free, and some modules are too much expensive, and on other CMS like magento, are free ( i know magento use much more resources, but is more powerful).
My opinion is Joomla and Magento is the best open source system, because we are based on ecommerce web development company , most of our company customers are needed this Joomla and Magento cms only. i think its having the good futures and eay to customization.
Well, for shopping templates, I would like to suggest you shopping cart such as Opencart, Magento, Shopify and so on. Because, they provide customiztion on themes and code accessing facility as well. Apart from this, if anyone thinking about to start ecommerce business, then these platform provides end to end solution to their clients.