10 Great Licensed Shopping Carts
22.02.12
Licensed ecommerce platforms are often the most flexible and powerful "shopping carts" available to online retailers, but they can demand more in terms of expenses and development time.
Licensed shopping carts — or, perhaps more accurately, ecommerce platforms — are hosted on a merchant's own servers or at a hosting company. In the case of open-source licensed carts, there are often a significant number of extensions that can be used to connect with third party tools or solutions. What's more, many licensed carts make it possible to customize an installation, tailoring it to fit a particular merchant's needs.
In this article, I offer my view of some of the best licensed ecommerce solutions available in 2011. Some of these solutions are enterprise-level — meaning that they can do much more, but they may also cost much more. Others are a nice combination of features and cost, suitable for small online merchants.
To be sure, I have not reviewed or experienced every licensed shopping cart. — there are likely other great licensed carts that could be added to this list. But, for the licensed carts I've experienced, here are ten great examples.
Source: Practical Ecommerce