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Ask HN: What is the best open-source ecommerce platform?

5 points by tsenkov 9y ago

mattwinslow 9y ago
"Best" is a bit subjective :) What's your use case? Preferred language/stack? Are you selling physical or digital products? Anticipated order volume? Need to integrate with 3rd party systems for inventory management, shipping, marketing, accounting, etc.? It seems there are more than you can shake a stick at (listing these off the top of my head in no particular order, on my phone): * Woocommerce (plugin for WordPress - PHP) [1] * Magento (PHP) [2] * Spree Commerce (Ruby on Rails) [3] * Saleor (Django/Python) [4] * Oscar (Django/Python) [5] I know I'm forgetting others... If you're into Django, you can find even more solutions listed here: https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/ecommerce/ https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/ecommerce/ 1 - https://woocommerce.com https://woocommerce.com 2 - https://magento.com https://magento.com 3 - https://spreecommerce.org https://spreecommerce.org 4 - http://getsaleor.com http://getsaleor.com 5 - http://oscarcommerce.com http://oscarcommerce.com
- _up 9y ago
  For digital products there is also Easy Digital Downloads for Wordpress.
- mattwinslow 9y ago
  Just stumbled across the following site, which might help you evaluate platforms: https://www.ecommwar.com https://www.ecommwar.com
claudiulodro 9y ago
WooCommerce! But I may have some bias.
tixocloud 9y ago
Does anyone have any thoughts on Opencart?
chris__butters 9y ago
Using a PHP based stack, Magento and WooCommerce are my go to solutions depending on requirements and size. If there as a huge range of products then Magento, if not WooCommerce which is easier for me to work with and allows easier customisation and extending the website in general.
eurticket 9y ago
Not sure if it's the best but I'm currently digging into a middleman tutorial, that I'm almost positive that I read from hacker news at one point about building an ecommerce sites. Middleman Tutorial (v4): Enable Static E-Commerce on a Ruby Site Generator > https://snipcart.com/blog/static-site-e-commerce-integrating-snipcart-with-middleman https://snipcart.com/blog/static-site-e-commerce-integrating...

5 points by tsenkov 9y ago

"Best" is a bit subjective :) What's your use case? Preferred language/stack? Are you selling physical or digital products? Anticipated order volume? Need to integrate with 3rd party systems for inventory management, shipping, marketing, accounting, etc.? It seems there are more than you can shake a stick at (listing these off the top of my head in no particular order, on my phone): * Woocommerce (plugin for WordPress - PHP) [1] * Magento (PHP) [2] * Spree Commerce (Ruby on Rails) [3] * Saleor (Django/Python) [4] * Oscar (Django/Python) [5] I know I'm forgetting others... If you're into Django, you can find even more solutions listed here: https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/ecommerce/ https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/ecommerce/ 1 - https://woocommerce.com https://woocommerce.com 2 - https://magento.com https://magento.com 3 - https://spreecommerce.org https://spreecommerce.org 4 - http://getsaleor.com http://getsaleor.com 5 - http://oscarcommerce.com http://oscarcommerce.com

_up 9y ago
For digital products there is also Easy Digital Downloads for Wordpress.
mattwinslow 9y ago
Just stumbled across the following site, which might help you evaluate platforms: https://www.ecommwar.com https://www.ecommwar.com

claudiulodro 9y ago

WooCommerce! But I may have some bias.

tixocloud 9y ago

Does anyone have any thoughts on Opencart?

chris__butters 9y ago

Using a PHP based stack, Magento and WooCommerce are my go to solutions depending on requirements and size. If there as a huge range of products then Magento, if not WooCommerce which is easier for me to work with and allows easier customisation and extending the website in general.

eurticket 9y ago

Not sure if it's the best but I'm currently digging into a middleman tutorial, that I'm almost positive that I read from hacker news at one point about building an ecommerce sites. Middleman Tutorial (v4): Enable Static E-Commerce on a Ruby Site Generator > https://snipcart.com/blog/static-site-e-commerce-integrating-snipcart-with-middleman https://snipcart.com/blog/static-site-e-commerce-integrating...