Our Favorite Open Source Solutions
Open source e-commerce solutions are abundant, each providing different levels of transactions from simple transactions using Paypal and other payment systems, to fully functional and robust shopping carts. Designwrite Studios can help you choose and deploy the right e-commerce solutions for your web site.
E-commerce in Joomla
The Joomla community offers a number of e-commerce solutions that are built into the application, focusing on the way you want to sell. Joomla enables the integration of complete shopping carts, as well as simpler selling models that integrate payment systems directly with site content. Joomla e-commerce is straightforward to implement. When your web site focus is content before e-commerce, we highly recommend this combination.
E-commerce in Drupal
Drupal has integrated e-commerce capabilities into its core code, and, along with add-on solutions, can provide fully functional e-commerce for any site. If your web site is a book, a blog, a community exchange site, and needs to incoportate e-commerce, Drupal is likely a fabulous solution.
Magento
Magento is feature-rich eCommerce system
offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content and
functionality of an online store. It
offers unprecedented flexibility and control with modular architecture that is extremely robust. Loaded with features and functionality, Magento is a key solution for serious e-commerce sites. It is available as open source and commercial installations.
Zen Cart
Zen Cart truly is a free, user-friendly, open
source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group
of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants
that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.
Zen Cart offers a plethora of options, is easy to use, and can accommodate large and small stores alike. If your web site is a store, then we highly recommend Zen Cart.









