2, osCommerce: “http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/oscommerce”>http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/oscommerce

Alexa Ranks: 10537. Google Links: 55,200,000

• Very old cart, since 2003
• Almost too old to die. V3 has been in alpha for a long
  time
• Lot of implementations. Very active forum and many contributions
  (modules)

Although osCommerce is still in its development stage, the available Milestone releases are considered to be stable
with the following features:

• General Functionality
  • Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
  • All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
  • Object oriented backend (3.0)
  • Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default
• Setup / Installation
  • Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure
• Design / Layout
  • Template struture implementation to:
    • allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make (3.0)
    • allow easy integration into an existing site (3.0)
  • Support for dynamic images
• Administration / Backend Functionality
  • Supports unlimited products and categories
    • Products-to-categories structure
    • Categories-to-categories structure
  • Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
  • Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
  • Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation
  • Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
  • Easily backup and restore the database
  • Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
  • Statistics for products and customers
  • Multilingual support
  • Multicurrency support
    • Automatically update currency exchange rates
  • Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
  • Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics
• Customer / Frontend Functionality
  • All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
  • Customers can view their order history and order statuses
  • Customers can maintain their accounts
    • Addressbook for multiple shipping and billing addresses
  • Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
  • Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
  • Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
  • Forseen checkout procedure
  • Secure transactions with SSL
  • Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
  • Global and per-category bestseller lists
  • Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
  • Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
• Product Functionality
  • Dynamic product attributes relationship
  • HTML based product descriptions
  • Automated display of specials
  • Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
  • Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters
• Payment Functionality
  • Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
  • Accept numerous online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
  • Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis
• Shipping Functionality
  • Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
  • Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)
  • Free shipping based on amount and destination
  • Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis
• Tax Functionality
  • Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
  • Set different tax rates for different products
  • Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis

3, Zen Cart: “http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=infopages&pages_id=5″>http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=infopages&pages_id=5

Alexa Rank: 20975, Google Links: 8,500,000

• Better cart than OScommerce
• take days to do version upgrade

Zen Cart™ Features

Why should you choose Zen Cart™ to power your e-commerce site? Let’s face it. There are 100’s of shopping
cart programs around, all with different strengths and weaknesses. Zen Cart™ is superior to most in ease-of-use,
features and price.

Zen Cart™ is built for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. The program is built by programmers and designers who
understand the online selling process from start to finish. Zen Cart™ has included all the necessary tools required
to build a successful online store and we are constantly improving and upgrading the software based on our users
requirements.

Below is a list of the major features included in Zen Cart™.

Easy Installation

• checks the database and server for requirements before installing
• installs using a built-in installation tool
• prepopulates the basic store information
• optional demo products

Customer Status Modes

• unrestricted shopping
• must register to view prices
• must register to view prices and merchandise
• showroom only

Global E-Commerce Ready

• multiple language support
• multiple tax support
• multiple shipping methods
• multiple currency support
• multiple payment methods

Catalog Status Modes

• showcase mode without prices
• showcase mode with prices
• normal shopping mode
• down for maintenance mode

Categories and Products

• unlimited category depth
• physical merchandise
• downloadable virtual products
• products can reside in multiple categories
• product options as dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, and text input

Customer Retention Tools

• periodic newsletter in plain text or HTML
• order status emails and records in the customer account
• referral tools
• gift certificates

Promotions, Sales and Discounts

• individual special prices
• global sale reductions
• category-wide sale prices
• discount coupons
• customer group discounts
• quantity discounts
• one-time charges
• minimum and maximum purchases per product
• prices by attributes

Fully Customizable Catalog Templates

• XHTML 1.0 compliant - nearly table-less layout
• change the colors, fonts and many graphics using Cascading Stylesheets
• add, move, remove sideboxes via the Admin Tool
• template overrides that do not get overwritten during upgrades
• override functionality without having to learn PHP
• create as many different looks as you would like and choose them from the admin

Powerful Administration Tool

• configure your minimum and maximum values, image sizes and customer details
• choose which layout settings to use for the spotlight listings
• pick which details to show on your product details page
• edit your policies pages with HTML (if desired)
• add, delete, move, link or copy your products
• create and manage your product attributes
• manage product reviews, featured products, specials and storewide sales
• shipping and payment module installation and management
• price and taxation control
• banner advertising controls
• newsletter creation and sending
• content management tool, easily add new content pages

4, CubeCart: http://www.cubecart.com/

Alexa Ranking: 50210, Google links: 2,870,000

CubeCart is an “out of the box” ecommerce shopping cart software solution which has been written to run
on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store which can
be used to sell digital or tangible products.

5, AgoraCart: http://www.agoracart.com/

Alexa rank: 110581, Google links: 1,970,000

6, Opencart.com: http://www.opencart.com/

Alexa rank: 96540, Google links: 39,700

Ref: “http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3866185″>http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3866185

7, PrestaShop

Web2 Ajax based, very impressive, but limited functionalities. Do not accept credit cards so far. No shipping
modules.