Everyone starts somewhere. Many small and mid-size retailers need a new, affordable ecommerce platform. While they may have a recognized brand, not everyone has the immediate potential to drive $5 million in online sales. So where do they turn?
Catalysts are designed specifically for the small- and mid-market. Unlike enterprise solutions that demand a million dollar software investment or tens of thousands every month in hosting fees, catalysts deliver a far more limited feature set with ultra-easy deployment options at an ultra-low cost. Some open source options are even free!
Here are more than 50 SMB ecommerce platforms that won’t break the bank:
Not all these vendors are alike. Some, such as Onestop and Virid, offer a full range of professional services. Others, such as ChannelAdvisor and NetSuite, offer ecommerce as a bolt-on to their core services. Amazon, Yahoo and ProStores are extensions of massive shopping portals. And packages solutions like osCommerce and Magento are virtually free software you download, install, and custom-configure on your own server.
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You should add Shopify to this list. Excellent and highly customizable SMB hosted product. Thanks for the compilation. Very noisy space.
There is a lot of variety in your list – just be aware some of these are completely different types of solutions! We are currently on Network Solutions e-commerce and relatively happy, definitely feeling constrained though. If I had technical expertise I would go with Magento given its high level of customization but for those without many of these are good options.
Where do you recommend a small business starts? We have a 1,000 product inventory and currently sell on ebay stores. We’d like to have our own store on our domain, with a persistent shopping cart, credit card payment gateway not thru paypal, lots of custom pages, cross-selling, coupon codes. Fairly tech friendly but definitely don’t want to self-install/maintain oscommerce.
Thanks!
Hi Greg. If you’re a small business that’s very active on Ebay, I’d start with ChannelAdvisor or ProStores. Both have direct feeds from your own domain directly to Ebay.
Hi Bill, You advise and content here and at Elastic Path Blog have been very, very helpful to me in my reseach so thank you. I have two quick questions for you. 1) Infusionsoft – Good, Bad, Ugly? 2) I have a client with under 1 million in sales of books, cd’s downloads, events, classes and subscriptions and donations which hosted Catalyst would you suggest from the list above… Oh and one last thing will you be updating this list anytine soon?