Open-source ecommerce solutions provide flexibility and customization options, boasting vibrant support communities, dedicated developers, and comprehensive how-to guides and resources.
Here’s our refreshed compilation, initially introduced a decade ago, spotlighting open-source ecommerce platforms. These platforms encompass advanced functionalities, adaptable themes, and diverse extensions, with some providing enterprise-hosted versions.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce, an open-source ecommerce platform integrated with WordPress, enables the sale of various items: physical products, personalized bundles, appointments, and exclusive member content. It provides automated tax calculations, real-time shipping rates from top carriers, label printing options, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and additional features. Operating in 38 countries and supporting transactions in 135-plus currencies, WooCommerce offers extensive customization through 800 extensions. It powers over 3.9 million online stores.
Drupal Commerce
Drupal Commerce is a flexible ecommerce framework based on the Drupal content management platform. It allows the creation of a headless commerce backend, integrating with various frontends or embedded within existing web properties. Its core functionalities cover product management, shopping cart, and checkout forms, supporting multiple languages and currencies. Users can access additional features and extensions through contributed modules, offering around 100 integrations in the free module library.
Magento Open Source
Magento Open Source, previously known as Magento Community Edition, is a free iteration of Adobe Commerce, a hosted enterprise platform. Users can access the Adobe Commerce Marketplace to customize Magento Open Source with nearly 4,000 extensions, diverse themes, support services, and additional resources. Adobe provides training courses and a certification program for ecommerce.
Spree
Spree is an open-source ecommerce platform crafted with Ruby on Rails, tailored for global brands seeking multi-language and multi-currency support. It comes with pre-built React and Vue Storefront starters and integrates with over 200 third-party tools for automation, referrals, email services, A/B testing, live chat, advanced analytics, CRM, helpdesk solutions, and data warehousing. Payment options include one-time or recurring transactions using credit and debit cards, digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay, bank accounts, and buy-now, pay-later services. Spree boasts a community of more than 850 contributors, 4,800 forks, and 1.5 million downloads.
PrestaShop
PrestaShop drives the operations of over 300,000 ecommerce sites globally. Built on the Symfony framework, it boasts a rich array of 300-plus features for efficient management of product catalogs, payments, shipping logistics, multi-shop setups, and more. The PrestaShop Marketplace offers a myriad of modules and themes, enabling store customization, traffic augmentation, conversion rate improvement, and customer loyalty enhancement.
OpenCart
OpenCart provides the capability to manage multiple standalone stores through a single mobile-friendly interface. It encompasses comprehensive tools for detailed product, order, and customer management, along with sales reports and marketing functionalities. With over 13,000 modules and themes, advanced user privileges settings, and a large community, boasting 110,000 registered members and 550,000 posts, OpenCart remains a robust choice.
Joomla
Joomla, a free and open-source CMS, serves diverse purposes from ecommerce and reservations to small business websites and online publications. Its core framework supports integrated commerce, inventory control systems, data reporting tools, customizable product catalogs, reservation management, and more. The Joomla marketplace offers nearly 6,000 extensions for expanded functionalities.
Shopizer
Shopizer stands as an enterprise-grade open-source ecommerce solution, offering retailers an off-the-shelf solution or backend application to serve commerce REST APIs for customized frontends. It covers a spectrum of features including catalog and product management, shopping cart functionalities, inventory and promotion management, content handling, smart pricing tools, order processing, as well as payment and shipping capabilities.
nopCommerce
nopCommerce, leveraging Microsoft’s ASP.NET ecommerce framework, offers an open-source platform tailored for small and medium businesses. Apart from standard ecommerce functionalities, it boasts enterprise-grade tools like multi-store and multi-vendor capabilities, advanced SEO settings, marketing tools for affiliate programs and client loyalty, one-page checkout, expanded product attributes, and more. With a community of over 250,000 members, nopCommerce continues to evolve.
OroCommerce
OroCommerce focuses on B2B ecommerce, presenting a multichannel customer portal, multiple shopping lists, dynamic pricing engines, inventory management, customer relationship tools, and various marketing features within its Community Edition.
Mailchimp Open Commerce
Mailchimp Open Commerce, previously known as Reaction Commerce, adopts an API-first, modular commerce approach crafted with Node.js, React, and GraphQL. It centers around a product catalog, allowing administrators to configure products with tags for improved catalog navigation. An array of plugins covers fundamental aspects like backend services, shop configuration, and optimizing the shopper experience.
Ecwid
Ecwid, short for “ECommerce WIDget,” was established in 2009 to assist small businesses in integrating stores into their existing websites. It offers a free customizable Ecwid Instant site with an embedded online store or integrates seamlessly with any current website. This platform allows store integration across multiple sites, blogs, and social networks, all manageable from a unified interface. Premium plans facilitate selling on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Amazon.
Zen Cart
Zen Cart, originating from osCommerce in 2003, is a free and open-source application based on PHP, employing a MySQL database and HTML components. It offers over 2,000 add-ons across 16 categories and provides fundamental tools for online selling, including basic CRM, accounting, and content management functionalities.
Vue Storefront
Vue Storefront constitutes an ecosystem of open-source tools functioning as a frontend-as-a-service for adaptable commerce solutions. Compatible with any backend equipped with an API, it seamlessly integrates with various platforms like PrestaShop, Spree, Sylius, BigCommerce, Commercetools, SAP Commerce Cloud, and more. Merchants can build ecommerce applications from scratch or leverage the pre-installed Storefront UI components library.
osCommerce
osCommerce, established in 2000, is an open-source ecommerce platform compatible with any web server utilizing PHP and MySQL. Its Online Merchant edition encompasses both frontend and administration backend systems, easily configurable and customizable with a vast array of 9,100 free add-ons. With a community boasting 300,000 members and a forum containing 1.7 million posts, osCommerce powers over 40,000 live sites.
Shopware
Shopware stands as an open-source commerce platform built on Vue and the Symfony framework, supported by a network of 7,000 developers and offering 3,000 extensions. It provides versatility catering to various business models—B2B, B2C, or D2C. Shopware facilitates the creation of tailored product catalogs, management of multiple storefronts, warehouses, and inventories within a unified environment. Features include configuring product prices based on customer groups or marketing strategies and using AI Copilot for rapid store setup and content generation.
Sylius
Sylius, an open-source headless ecommerce platform, targets mid-market and enterprise brands. Launched in 2016, Sylius offers a flexible framework supporting cross-border commerce, multi-currency transactions, easy customization and integration, pre-built promotions, an adaptable administration panel, and scalable infrastructure. Supported by over 650 contributors, it provides approximately 150 plugins, alongside a commercial edition called Sylius Plus.
Saleor
Saleor presents an open-source ecosystem designed for constructing immersive ecommerce experiences. Central to Saleor is its GraphQL API, managing complex online store functions through an array of integrated services. It accommodates the sale of simple and configurable products with multiple variants, handling both digital and physical inventory. Saleor’s dashboard is accessible in over 30 languages.
Solidus
Solidus, an open-source ecommerce solution constructed on the Ruby on Rails framework, originates from a fork of Spree. It offers a robust backend, allowing customization through built-in configuration hooks, extensions, or by leveraging Ruby’s and Rails’ native overrides. Solidus has been adopted by various notable stores including Floyd, Maisonette, MeUndies, Away, Casper, Bonobos, and Ace & Tate.
Sharetribe
Sharetribe stands as a headless application facilitating the creation of B2C and B2B marketplaces for rentals, services, products, and more. It allows the development of marketplaces without coding through the Sharetribe Web Template. Users can store structured data on users, listings, and transactions, enabling the assignment of multiple user types for any product or service. Its customizable data schema facilitates user-friendly search and filtering functionalities.
