Choosing Ecommerce Application

When we kicked off our Akiba Mart Project, one of the most important thing is to create the infrastructure to realize online shopping. I did not have any knowledge about eCommerce, so I had to study about that first.

There are several open source shopping cart application available free, but total cost (including initial cost, variable cost and manpower) spending to create shopping cart infrastructure have to be considered carefully. Even though we use free application, if it takes too much time and effort to implement it, we rather choose pay service.

The points that I picked up to compare application are like this.

• Initial cost and variable cost.
• Original domain name can be used.
• Built in payment gateway interface.
• Sales and order management function.
• Easy to customize (both front end and back end).
• Full of manuals and online resources.

There were several candidates to compare such as Zen Cart, Magento, Multilingual Cart, Ohayo Cart, EC-Cube and osCommerce. In those shopping cart applications, I choosed Magento. Reason why I choosed Magento is that this application had flexibility in configuring the shopping site. Also Magento is new in eCommmerce society, which matched for me wanted something challenging.

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