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What is your Favorite Open Source E-Commerce System? Over the past few months, I’ve seen a few new systems emerge and they are rapidly gaining traction, building developer communities, and introducing new extensions, capabilities and features. Obviously, we’re big fans of Magento mainly because of the scalability, community and out-of-the-box feature set (as well as it’s current popularity).

As newer systems become more popular, we would like to hear your feedback as to which you like, or think can compete with Magento’s popularity and growth.

After you vote for your favorite system, leave a comment below letting us know why it’s your favorite. Was it a great experience with a client? Are you currently using the system to run an e-commerce business?

On the other hand, you might be a fan of a hosted solution like Shopify or Volusion, or a multi-channel solution like GSI or Websphere – we would be happy to hear about those as well! Leave your comments below!

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If you want more information about any of these systems, here are short descriptions links to their official sites.

Cube Cart
http://www.cubecart.com/
“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 to new and existing customers all over the world.”

Magento
http://www.magentocommerce.com
“Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs. Designed to be completely scalable and backed by Varien’s support network, Magento offers companies the ultimate eCommerce solution.”

Open Cart
http://www.opencart.com
“OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.”

OSCommerce
http://www.oscommerce.com/
“osCommerce has attracted a large growing e-commerce community that consists of over 231,400 store owners and developers who support each other and extend osCommerce Online Merchant with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 5,900 add-ons that are available for free to customize osCommerce Online Merchant online stores and to help increase sales.”

Prestashop
http://www.prestashop.com
“PrestaShop™ is a professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free. The big advantage of open-source software: you’re never ‘locked’ to expensive commercial software. Our dedicated team and growing user community join forces to fix bugs and add new functionality at a rate proprietary software companies can rarely claim. Join the Open Source revolution!”

Spree E-Commerce
http://spreecommerce.com
“Spree capitalizes on the dynamic nature of the Ruby programming language to provide the most flexible commerce platform available. Spree has been designed from the ground up to be as open and extensible as possible. You no longer have to be frustrated with the limited set of choices provided by most platforms. Spree is maintained by an active team of developers who continue to refine the code based on lessons learned from the challenges of real world deployments”

UberCart
http://www.ubercart.org
“Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal, the leading open source content management system. This is a killer combination for anyone looking to build a community around a product, sell access to premium content, offer paid file downloads, and much much more!”

Zen Cart
http://www.zen-cart.com
“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.”