osCommerce
osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License.
osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has since matured to a solution that is currently powering 11,155 registered live shops around the world.
Today, osCommerce has been taken to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution that not only remains easy to setup and maintain, but also making it easier for store administrators to present their stores to their customers with their own unique requirements.
The success of osCommerce is secured by a great and active community where members help one another out and participate in development issues reflecting upon the current state of the project.
You are more than welcome to contribute to the success of osCommerce by helping out in the realization of the project, by participating in the forums, by donating to the team developers and sponsoring the project, or just by spreading the word!
We welcome you to the osCommerce community!
Development Status: Mature
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Zencart
Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.
- easy installation
- multiple customer modes
- unlimited category depth
- multiple sales and discounts
- multiple display modes
and…
- XHTML template system
- unlimited extra pages
- multiple ad banner controller
- multiple shipping options
- multiple payment options
plus…
- newsletter manager
- discount coupons
- gift certificates
- featured products
- quantity discounts
Development Status: Production/Stable
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: Windows, Linux
TYPO3 CMS
TYPO3 is a small to midsize enterprise-class Content Management Framework offering the best of both worlds: out-of-the-box operation with a complete set of standard modules and a clean and sturdy high-performance architecture accomodating virtually every kind of custom solution or extension.
For authors, TYPO3 is a user-friendly, intuitive tool, allowing content editors to produce and maintain web pages, using sophisticated functions in just a few clicks of the mouse.
With TYPO3, everyone can participate in web-based communication and customer relations. Seamless integration of multimedia content types and dynamic server-side image manipulation and generation are among the numerous standard options inside this comprehensive toolbox for web-based communication. Also included is an internal messaging and workflow communication system for shared authoring and collaboration.
For administrators and content managers, TYPO3 features an extremely detailed user permissions system for implementing professional content creation and editing workflows. TYPO3 is a server-side platform-independent application that can be used with virtually every browser available.
Development Status: Mature
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: Unix, Windows (any)
