Catalysts, Ecommerce Platforms for SMB’s
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.