Are you planning to open an online product store, but can’t invest too much money? In this case, you are in the right place. Accurate Reviews experts have selected the best free e-commerce platforms for you.
THE BEST FREE E-COMMERCE PLATFORMS
Nowadays integrating the traditional world with the digital world has become a necessity. For this reason, merchants are approaching ecommerce, the tool that facilitates the purchase and sale of goods and services online. As everyone knows, however, these platforms sometimes require high costs that not everyone is willing to do, which is why we have decided to recommend the best FREE e-commerce or that have a totally FREE version.
PRESTASHOP
PrestaShop is an ecommerce platform for managing an online store. Being self-hosted or open source, it can be downloaded and customized it according to your needs. If your technical knowledge is minimal, Prestashop may look complex enough to require a developer’s help; however, basic daily activities – such as the management of orders, warehouse, sales can be handled with ease. This ecommerce also offers a series of truly functional marketing tools to boost sales, such as: special offers, discount codes, promotions, gifts, affiliations and much more. You can download PrestaShop for free, only pay for hosting and if you like, purchase additional modules to customize the appearance of your shop.
HOW TO CREATE AN ONLINE SHOP WITH PRESTASHOP – TUTORIAL
Here is a short tutorial that introduces us to this program:
Check out our review of PrestaShop
EASY DIGITAL DOWNLOADS
Easy Digital Downloads is a self-hosted ecommerce software that can be embedded in WordPress as a plugin. Ideal for those who need to sell digital products online such as eBooks, PDF files, music, graphics, software and more, directly from their site. This program is free and enables you to create your online store without any investment of money. However, you should budget the time you’ll spend to understand the platform – which is quite complex – and how to create and publish articles on your site. To access more advanced features, Easy Digital Downloads provides you with a series of add-ons for a more professional experience.
HOW TO CREATE AN ONLINE STORE WITH EASY DIGITAL DOWNLOADS – TUTORIAL
Watch this video tutorial to understand how the program works:
Check out our review of Easy Digital Downloads
WIX
Wix is a platform for creating professional-looking websites very easily and also managing online stores, thanks to Wix eCommerce. It is suitable for small and medium-sized business that want to sell their products on an online market. To get started, you can choose one of the many templates available. Wix eCommerce will help you improve the management of inventory, orders, shipments, payment methods and take care of anything else related to your business. The website is also optimized for mobile devices, so you can reach all your customers.
HOW TO CREATE AN ONLINE STORE WITH WIX ECOMMERCE – TUTORIAL
Here is a video tutorial that will show us how to approach this program:
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MAGENTO
Magento is an open source software that allows you to easily create an online store and easily manage it. In addition to being a flexible CMS (content management system in Italian), it is also scalable and customizable. The team behind Magento works hard to guarantee the quality of the service and in fact it proves to be one of the best online sales tools, but it has one flaw: it’s not beginner-friendly. Those approaching this type of ecommerce need to have good programming and coding language skills, especially PHP. If you are new to the coding world, you will benefit from the help of a developer.
MAGENTO E COMMERCE – TUTORIAL
Here is a tutorial that briefly introduces this program:
Check out our review of Magento
WOOCOMMERCE
WooCommerce is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to manage your ecommerce store from your website. In addition to being free, it is also open source thus allows you to customize it to your needs. To host the online store, WordPress.org will charge you for the hosting expenses and additional add-ons and extensions you choose to add. WooCommerce is definitely an excellent solution for merchants who are already used to WordPress. To download it, just follow the normal process: add a new plugin on the page, search for it, install it and activate it. You can also access it comfortably from your smartphone or tablet thanks to the mobile app available for iOS and Android devices. Being self-hosted, this ecommerce platform unfortunately lacks in the security department: you’ll have to be proactive and research ways to keep your data safe.
CREATE AN ECOMMERCE WEBSITE WITH WOOCOMERCE – TUTORIAL
Let’s watch this short tutorial to understand how WooCommerce works:
Check out our review of WooCommerce
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