What’s the best ecommerce software?

[Cedric]

I’ve been thinking for a very long time to setup an ecommerce for my business which is around cars. So I would offer car parts and products.

I’ve messed around with Wordpress Woocommerce and Prestashop so far. Are there any other decent ecommerce softwares available that you can recommend?

 

[Arantor]

Really depends on what you're trying to do and what your needs, skills and budget are.

WordPress/WooCommerce - easy to get going, has a decent plugin ecosystem, plenty of themes with WC support, but struggles to scale without some serious help.

Drupal + Commerce - if you can get Drupal going, you can get Commerce going - it's not as easy as WP/WC, but it's not rocket science. Fewer nice theme options out of the box.

Shopify - SaaS offering that looks pretty neat and if you're not doing anything too wild in terms of products, or you have a suitably capable dev on tap, you can do quite a lot with this. Better for more conventional stores and where you're not doing anything too out there in terms of product bundles or composites or things like that.

Zen Cart - it's open source, pretty fully featured but not great to style, and looks dated.

Magento - the grand poobah. Can run basically anything. A bit leaky, so you'll want a full dev team on hand to manage it. Good luck getting it running.