Best eCommerce Development Platforms - eCommerce Solution

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Best eCommerce Platforms to Build and Expand your
Online Store

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Best eCommerce Platforms to Build and Expand your
Online Store

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Global eCommerce market is growing rapidly with
more number of businesses beginning to go online
with their selling initiatives. Customers prefer
to purchase online as the eCommerce stores offer
convenience for shopping, buyers get cheaper
deals and better prices, many options and
varieties are available, easy comparison of price
is possible, shopping experience is hassle-free
and can be done from the comfort of ones home or
office. Whether you are a newbie in the
eCommerce marketplace or an established retailer
looking to expand your online store, you both
have the same need i.e. finding the most suitable
eCommerce platform. There are many eCommerce
platforms, but selecting the one which suits your
business wants and needs is a difficult and
confusing task. A lot of research and planning
goes into it as it determines the quality of
experience your customers will have when they
visit your online store. It will also determine
whether visitors return to your store to buy
again, directly affecting your sales and
revenues. This post intends to help you out in
choosing the best platform as per your needs,
making your research work easier. Let's have a
look at some of the best and most popular
eCommerce platforms, helping you decide which one
will work best for your business!!
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popular eCommerce platforms

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Magento Magento is one of the best platforms for
eCommerce solutions and is an established leader.
Being the fastest growing eCommerce platform, it
flaunts numerous features, is extremely flexible
and is the most trusted platform. It is the most
versatile eCommerce framework and comes in
Community (fit for medium to large businesses)
and Enterprise (fit for enterprises) editions. It
is an open-source and is incredibly advanced and
customizable. One of its biggest advantages is
that it has very large community support through
numerous plug-ins and extensions available,
allowing you to add many new functionality that
do not come built-in with the Magento Platform.
It is robust, SEO friendly and highly scalable,
providing many options and support resources in
designing, developing, launching and managing
your online site and store. You can also easily
integrate third-party solutions for added
functionality. It provides multilingual
multi-currency support and has multi-store
capabilities.
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Magento

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Shopify Shopify again is one of the popular and
widely used eCommerce platforms, ideal for small
to medium size businesses. It is user-friendly
with its storefront being attractive and
professional, consisting of a large library of
apps, helping you choose the ones that fit your
business. It is simple, has modern themes and
provides unlimited potential for integration. A
single administration dashboard allows you to
choose website template, enhance and revamp your
store design, add product details and manage
companys blog. It also has lots of add-ons, is
SEO compliant and provides 24/7 support. It is
integrated with many payment gateways, provides
hosting services, shopping cart, reports
analytics and is responsive, consisting of
various marketing tools and offering
aesthetically pleasing sites.
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Shopify

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BigCommerce BigCommerce is a dynamic and
intuitive platform offering a variety of
customization tools, ideal for medium to large
size businesses. It has user-friendly interface,
extensive help resources and a large number of
apps, helping add more functionality to your
eCommerce store. It has analytics feature and
easily integrates with other products/services
third party plug-ins. It has efficient blogging
capabilities and helps in building scalable and
powerful online stores. It is a feature-rich
eCommerce platform offering easy to set-up,
secure shopping cart payment gateways, SEO
configuration, innovative marketing tools, social
media support, promotional tools, mobile
optimized view and much more, helping you get a
competitive edge and reach masses with your
products.
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BigCommerce

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Virtuemart Virtuemart is the Joomla eCommerce
extension with numerous built in features,
allowing you to create a sophisticated online
stores within no time. It is ideal for medium to
large sized businesses. One of the biggest
advantages of Virtuemart is its community support
including a dedicated documentation website. It
is the most preferred option for a Joomla Website
and for the ones who are already familiar with
Joomla. It easily integrates with various payment
gateways and multiple shipping methods. It has
powerful SEO SEM features with rich backend
support. It supports multiple currencies has
multi-language features. It also provides a
personalized shopping experience and allows
buyers to checkout as a guest user. It lets you
add related products or categories to a
particular product the buyer is looking for, thus
increasing the chances of cross-selling. Hundreds
of extensions are available for Virtuemart,
allowing you to customize and add new features to
your store.
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VirtueMart

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WooCommerce WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin,
allowing you to extend an online store on your
WordPress website or blog. WooCommerce leverages
WordPress capabilities, helping retailers to
build their store along with an integrated blog
or website. It is ideal for small size businesses
and is cost-effective user-friendly for the
ones familiar with WordPress platform. It is
open-source, is easy to setup, has numerous
add-ons themes (WooThemes, ThemeForest and
more) available, supports numerous payment
gateways, is scalable and has a huge support
community. It is quite flexible when it comes to
integrating with third-party extensions
applications and provides shopping cart and
online store management tools. It supports
back-end operations and offers various marketing
tools, helping boost sales and improving revenues.
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WooCommerce

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Volusion Volusion is a user-friendly, robust and
comprehensive eCommerce platform, especially for
the ones comfortable with HTML CSS. It is ideal
for small businesses and is cost-effective,
consisting of numerous enriched features. It
caters to both start-ups and growing businesses,
offering attractive website designs and shopping
cart themes. It requires no coding or technical
skills for setting up, offers many good SEO
tools, provides secure hosting services and 24/7
dedicated support, thus being one of the leading
online platforms for small retailers.
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Volusion

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OpenCart OpenCart is an open-source e-Commerce
platform having user-friendly back-end. It is a
blend of simplicity and flexibility and is a
feature-packed platform, offering numerous
plugins. It supports multiple payment gateways
and has efficient order management system. It is
highly scalable and allows you to create
unlimited number of categories. It also provides
multilingual and multi-currency support and lets
you sell n number of products. It doesnt require
much technical knowledge in setting up the store.
The website has a high loading speed, giving an
enhanced shopping experience to your buyers. Like
Magento it also has multi-store capabilities
allowing the businesses to manage all their
stores through one admin panel. It has easily
understandable documentation to assist you and is
mobile optimized, providing an engaging shopping
experience.
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OpenCart

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osCommerce osCommerce is one of the oldest
eCommerce platforms that can be run on different
webhosts and is ideal for small businesses. It is
open-source, is highly customizable and delivers
utmost quality and powerful websites. It is a
comprehensive and versatile platform with a huge
support base. It provides easy and quick view of
your stores information with unlimited items,
products and categories. It supports multiple
currencies languages and numerous payment
gateways and is SEO optimized. It helps in easily
setting up a secure and self-hosted store and
offers a number of themes, plugins and over 7,000
free add-ons, giving you full control on the look
feel of your online store.
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osCommerce

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Choosing the right platform totally depends on
your business model and requirements. This
decision should be taken after proper research
and with a good amount of foresight, which
otherwise might lead to negative consequences.
Selecting the best-fit eCommerce platform will
help you to develop an efficient website and a
great online store giving you brand recognition
and helping your business grow. Are you a
retailer looking to build a robust scalable
online store or expand your existing store?
Semaphore Software, a leading eCommerce solution
provider offers end-to-end eCommerce solutions,
tailored to meet the precise requirements of your
business!! We have built more than 500 web shops
and can help you achieve results on your online
shop.
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eCommerce Development Company

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