Magento eCommerce software

It won the Sourceforge award for best open source software, for its Community Edition. There is a pay enterprise version too. (No more files are available on Sourceforge actually).

It is written in PHP and requires MySQL and PHP 5.3 at least.
Extensions GD, DOM, SOAP, PDO are required.
It requires also an Apache server.

Functions

Manage a catalog of products.
Order and payments management.
Support for mobile.
Monitoring the delivery of products and customer space.
Foreign languages.
Affiliation (plugin).
Sponsorship (plugin).
Loyalty (plugin).

Download

Download Magento Community

A link on the Enterprise version is on the page.

Themes for Magento

Like Wordpress, the software supports themes to personalize his merchant site.

Hellomagento

For the plugin Magento eCommerce This free theme is quite professional.

Live Demo.

Hellowired is a modified version of this theme for Smashing Magazine.

Live demo hellowired.

Other open source eCommerce software

In PHP:

Avactis, Batavi, osCommerce, PrestaShop, Ubercart, VirtueMart, Zen Cart.

In Java:

Broadleaf Commerce, Ofbliz.

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