e-commerce software
An e-commerce website allows you to sell your products and services over the web. If you want to launch your own e-commerce website, you can buy or customize a software.
We present here a list of main e-commerce software.
Enterprise Solutions
Those solutions for big companies are often based on the IBM Websphere or BEA Weblogic platforms (cost >200k€):
- ATG Commerce – www.atg.com
- Broadvision – www.broadvision.com
- Escalate Retail (ex-Blue Martini) – www.escalateretail.com
- IBM Websphere Commerce Suite – www.ibm.com/software/commerce
- Intershop – www.intershop.com/e_commerce_software
Mid-range
The high mid-range market offers many solutions (cost 10k€ ~ 200k€):
- Elastic Path (ex-Merchantspace) www.elasticpath.com (J2EE)
- ePages – www.epages.eu – Read our review
- Microsoft Commerce server – www.microsoft.com/commerceserver
- Netalogue – Net Catalogue & E-Procurement – www.netalogue.com (.NET)
Lower cost
Lower cost does not mean lowest products. Price range <10k€
- Actinic – www.actinic.com
- Cyberwork e-Commerce – www.cyberwork.be
- Erol e-Commerce – www.erolonline.co.uk
- Miva – smallbusiness.miva.com
- The Interchange open source project – www.icdevgroup.org
- Oscommerce – www.oscommerce.com (leading open source)
ASP
Many software listed above can be used in ASP mode (Application Service Provider), possibly via partners. In this case, software, hosting, etc. are managed by the ASP provider. Some solutions are also first intended for ASP mode, notably:
- Google Checkout – checkout.google.com
- Screenpages – www.screenpages.com
- Snow Valley – www.snowvalley.com (Microsoft-based)
- Venda – www.venda.com (used by BT Shop and Mothercare)



