37 Shopping Cart Options for Developers

There are a number of open source options that are popular with developers.
Magento

Magento is a leading open source solution. It is a full-featured e-commerce platform with lots of options for users.
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osCommerce

osCommerce is one of the most popular open source shopping carts. osCommerce was started in 2000 and has a community of over 200,000 users. Others like Zen Cart and CRE Loaded are based on osCommerce.
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Zen Cart

Zen Cart is a popular free, open source shopping cart.
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PrestaShop

PrestaShop is a free, open source shopping cart (PHP).
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Free PHP E-Commerce Software: PrestaShop

Other Open Source Options:

Agora Cart

Ubercart

Free Shopping Carts:

In addition to the open source options, these shopping carts will keep costs to a minimum.
PayPal

PayPal provides a very popular free shopping cart system (they take a percentage of sales with no monthly fees). You can create “Add to Cart” or “Buy Now” buttons and accept payments from credit cards as well as payments from PayPal balances.
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Google Checkout

Google Checkout is payment processing system (can be used with other shopping carts or with their own) that is free to use for AdWords users. There are small per-transaction fees for those who aren’t using AdWords.
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e-Commerce WordPress Plugin

Websites and blogs powered by WordPress can download the e-commerce plugin. It doesn’t offer all of the features of a complete e-commerce solution (although it does have quite an impressive feature list for a plugin), but it may be ideal for smaller stores.
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eShop WordPress Plugin

eShop is another option for WordPress users.
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FatFreeCart

FatFreeCart is a free option from the makers of E-Junkie. It works with PayPal and Google checkout and does not require installing anything.

Other Free Shopping Carts:

StoreSprite

Quick.Cart

Virtue Mart (for Joomla and Mambo)

Hosted and Licensed E-Commerce Options:

Many clients may not want to go with a free or open source option. Here are some of the leading choices for hosted and licensed e-commerce.
Network Solutions

Network Solutions standard costs $50 per month, and the pro version costs $100 per month.
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Yahoo! Small Business

Yahoo! Small Business’s starter e-commerce plan costs $40 per month.
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Yahoo Merchant Starter Review by PC Magazine

Shopify
Shopify is a hosted solution with prices that start at $24 per month. There are tons of features and ease of use is emphasized.

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CRE Loaded

CRE Loaded pricing starts at $50 per month, or you can download and host it yourself for a one-time fee of $295.

osCommerce vs. CRE Loaded vs. Zen Cart vs. Others

E-Junkie

E-Junkie provides shopping carts and buy now buttons for selling downloads and tangible goods. They automate the transfer of files and codes if you are selling downloads. Prices start at $5 per month.
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CubeCart

CubeCart is a feature-rich PHP and MySQL shopping cart. The price ranges from free to $180.
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3DCart

3DCart’s prices range from $20 to $100 per month for its hosted shopping cart.
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Interspire

Interspire costs $295, $995 or $1,795, depending on which edition you want.
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X-Cart

X-Cart is a PHP and MySQL shopping cart. X-Cart gold costs $229 and X-Cart Pro costs $575.
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FoxyCart

FoxyCart is free during development and then $15 per month. It aims to make the process of designing and developing an e-commerce site easy.
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