E-Commerce:Market Overview and Popular Platforms

E-Commerce Market OverviewE-Commerce industry scope

E-Commerce: Market Overview

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E-Commerce Buyers in MILLIONS

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How Big is the E-Commerce Market? (Stats and Forecast)

E-Commerce: Market Overview

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E-Commerce Buyers in MILLIONS

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Which Are the Top Countries with Most Digital Buyers?

E-Commerce: Market Overview

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E-Commerce SALES in BILLION USD

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Which Are the Top Countries with Highest Online Sales?

E-Commerce: Market Overview

There are Less Taxes

It Saves Fuel

It Offers Less Prices

There is No crowd

It's Easy to Compare Prices

There is More Variety

It's Time Saving

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WHY SHOPPING ONLINE?

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Why Are Your Customers Looking for Your Products/Services Online?

How to Embrace the Growing E-commerce Industry?

Create Your Own Online Store

Create Your Online Store

What Are the Available E-Commerce Platforms?

• There are many E-Commerce software available in the market that can be used as an E-Commerce platform for your business.

• In order to determine which E-Commerce software is best for your online business, it is essential to understand different characteristics and functionality of these E-Commerce platforms.

• Therefore you can pick the best suited E-Commerce solution for your website according to your business requirements like shopping cart, ordering capabilities, user accounts, search, navigation, reporting etc.

E-Commerce Platforms

Magento; 9063; 26%

VirtueMart; 3324; 10%

PrestaShop; 2998; 9%

Zen Cart; 2515; 7%OsCommerce; 2461; 7%

OpenCart; 2425; 7%

Volusion; 1168; 3%

Interspire; 1106; 3%

Yahoo! Stores; 1014; 3%

Shopify; 826; 2%

Others; 7964; 23%

Magento VirtueMart PrestaShop Zen Cart OsCommerce OpenCartVolusion Interspire Yahoo! Stores Shopify Others

Most Popular E-commerce Platforms (in Top 1M Websites)

E-Commerce Platforms

# 1 - Magento

Most popular E-Commerce platform Open source and free web application Framework: Zend Framework, Server-side scripting language: PHP Magento can handle multiple online stores

E-Commerce Platforms

# 2 - VirtueMart

VirtueMart is a Joomla! Extension Server-side scripting language: PHP Multiple languages and range of currencies Unlimited number of products, categories, customers and orders

E-Commerce Platforms

# 3 - PrestaShop

Open source E-Commerce solution Server-side scripting language: PHP Supports major payment gateways via respective APIs Allows multiple high quality product images

E-Commerce Platforms

# 4 - Zen Cart

Open source shopping cart solution Server-side scripting language: PHP Out of the box features available Wide range of customizable options

E-Commerce Platforms

# 5 - osCommerce

osCommerce stands for Open Source Commerce Server-side scripting language: PHP Supports wide range of credit-card processors and shipping services Handles 10’s of thousands products

E-Commerce: Market Overview and Platforms

All these E-Commerce platforms are open source and free. They are easily customizable with respect to the functionalities and website layout, if you have the knowledge of PHP/MySQL and also incase you don’t. That’s where we come in.

We provide end-to-end solutions for developing your E-Commerce website. So if you are looking for an affordable and effective E-Commerce web development solution, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Reference Sources:http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Ecommerce-Sales-Topped-1-Trillion-First-Time-2012/1009649http://tomrobertshaw.net/2013/03/feb-2013-ecommerce-survey/