Start Your E-Commerce Business With Open Source

Ever thought you can start an E-Commerce Business for $0? I bet you don't believe me but it is really possible with the various open source ecommerce solution providers available on the Internet today. These solution providers not only provide you with the ecommerce platform which is the base of your E-Commerce business, they also provide tools to help you hook up with various online content providers whom you can resell their products if you do not have any products to start with. So basically you will just need to upload the platform codes provided to your web host and set it up.

Although this might not be an easy task especially if you have no technical background but you can still set it up with the online tutorials provided or you can also post your questions on the forums and have other business owners who are like you using the open source platform to share with you their experience and tips. After you have successfully setup the ecommerce platform you can start to beautify your site with some themes or even do your own scripting to custom the ecommerce platform to suit your business needs.

Below are some of the open source ecommerce solution providers which you can review to start your own ecommerce business.

• osCommerce is one of the popular open source ecommerce platform. It provide a shopping cart functionality which you can easily setup and use for your E-Commerce Business. Not much technical skill needed in setting it up but to customize it would require some understanding in PHP.

• OpenCart is another open source ecommerce solution which is rich in features, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface. One of the features which I like very much is the Multi Currency support. This really help when you need to open your business to many currencies.

• Zen Cart is a free, user friendly, open source shopping cart. Zen Cart focuses on the merchants and shoppers instead of the developers. Zen Cart also supports multiple payment and shipping options, quantity discounts and coupons.

• Zeus Cart is an incredibly stable & richly-interfaced, open source shopping cart and it?s a simple E-commerce software package which allows, even a non-technical person to open an online store on the Internet, with minimal efforts. ZeusCart is a web-based PHP/My SQL shopping cart which is simple, powerful and easy to use.

• Prestashop is robust, professional grade e-Commerce shopping cart that you can download, install, and use for free. Come with a inventory, orders, shipping and customers management system it is one of the most powerful ecommerce solution available.

So if you wish to start selling online why not give these open source platform a try. Since they are free to use it does not cost you anything to kick start your business. So just buy a domain for your business, subscribe to a good hosting company and you are ready to start your own E-Commerce Business.

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Andrew
A Singapore Working Dad, a Business Enthusiast and Founder of Practical Money Online & Andrew Tan Organization who knows how to create a business from $0! Having started a few Businesses and today guiding people to develop their own Business and stepping out of the rat race. Do check out his profile and find out what he is up to via his facebook account and more.

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