When creating an e-commerce site, it is essential to select the most appropriate software for its development. Of all the solutions available, each has specific advantages that will be useful
- Magento: the most complete
Magento is an open source solution that appeared in 2008 and is undoubtedly the most comprehensive on the market. Ergonomics is precisely one of the active elements of Magento, as well as the free installation. However, given that Magento is particularly suitable for relatively large e-commerce sites and requires advanced technical skills, it is advisable to use an agency offering site creation under Magento.
Note that Magento offers four different formulas of its solution :
Enterprise Cloud Edition: for the most complex projects, with complete support
Enterprise Edition: for medium-sized enterprises
Commerce Order Management Suite: with specific support for the ordering process
Community Edition: adapted solution for SMEs
- Prestashop: the most used
With more than 250,000 e-commerce sites using the French Prestashop solution, This is by far the most used tool, especially in France!
The high strength of the tool is to propose a large number of themes and plugins adapted to specific situations and needs. The negative point is at the level of paid plugins and low SEO optimization.
- Review: adapted to WordPress
Today, when we know that 70% of sites use WordPress globally, there is a good chance that your website or blog will run on this open source CMS! The WooCommerce tool is a WordPress e-commerce plugin that allows you to easily create a small online store directly integrated into your WordPress site. Depending on your needs, this can be an exciting alternative.
- Shopify: the simplest to use
First appearing in 2006, Shopify quickly gained the reputation of being one of the most straightforward tools to use for beginners, with accompanying in every step of creating its online store. The interface and ergonomics are very intuitive, which makes it easier to handle the solution.
The negative point is that the solution is paid and the shop is hosted on the servers of Shopify, which can be a disadvantage for the SEO of the site.
- OpenCart: the latest
Appearing on the market in 2013, OpenCart is the most recently released CMS e-commerce. With careful ergonomics and an administrative dashboard of excellent quality, this free tool can be an attractive alternative to the “historical” solutions of the market.
- Jigoshop: a simple WordPress plugin
If your website runs on WordPress, you must be seriously interested in Jigoshop which offers a series of features dedicated to e-commerce directly on this platform. The advantage is its simplicity of use as well as these many plugins according to your needs, and the evolution of the traffic of your merchant site.
- Canva
For a multitude of graphics options, Canva is a perfect online graphics editing service! Themes and designs are prefabricated to meet all your creative needs with simplicity. All you have to do is open an account for free for the first time and then let the steps explained by the site guides yourself.