E-Commerce Development

It is true to say that Ecommerce has been revolutionizing the way that most of the firms are doing business. Owing to the strong development of the Ecommerce, the customers now can purchase almost everything online while getting an ultimate shopping experience.

Over the last few years, we have seen a significant change in the shopping habit of consumers, from going directly to “brick and mortar stores” to buy stuff to just stay at home and make online purchases. Especially, in developed countries like the US, UK or Australia, nearly 70% of buyers prefer online shopping to traditional shopping. As the result, there is a boom in Electronic Commerce, or Ecommerce development worldwide.

In short, Ecommerce includes the acts of both selling and buying, or in other words any sort of transaction taken on the Internet. There are millions of e-businesses who are trading their products and services on their website, social networking sites or auction sites.

WooCommerce as an E-Commerce Tool

WooCommerce is an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress. Launched on September 27, 2011, the plugin quickly became popular for its simplicity to install and customize and free base product.

WooCommerce is used by a number of high-traffic websites such as Small Press Expo. For the 3rd week of September 2015, Trends indicated that WooCommerce ran on 30% of e-commerce sites and millions of active installs. Ecommerce is rapidly growing worldwide and WooCommerce has over 39 million downloads as a plugin and is currently active on more than three million websites and is the most popular eCommerce platform in 2018.

WooCommerce has approximately 4% of the top million HTML pages. In 2015, statistics show that the percentage of online stores that utilize WooCommerce through WordPress.org’s plugin is more than 30% of all stores.

WooCommerce has attracted significant popularity because the base product, in addition to many extensions and plugins, is free and open-source. In 2018, WooCommerce has near 330 extensions and over 1,000 plugins. In addition, there are thousands of paid add-ons for fixed prices. Many Premium Themes now offer capability with WooCommerce as well as plugins that make a theme framework compatible.

nopCommerce as an E-Commerce Tool

nopCommerce is an open-source E-commerce solution based on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core framework and MS SQL Server 2012 (or higher) backend Database. It provides a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend, allowing shopping cart creation. It is available under the nopCommerce Public License V3 and officially launched in October 2008 for small to medium-sized businesses.

As of May 2019, Builtwith.com reports that 36,435 websites have used nopCommerce. The installation package was downloaded more than 3 million times. It is used by such brands as Volvo, Puma, Reebok, DHC skincare, Columbia, Medindia, and Speedo.

nopCommerce can be downloaded, installed and used free of charge. The community forum provides free support. There is an optional fee for white-labeling, premium support services, and partnership program. Until 2014, the documentation was downloaded on a paid basis and now is available free of charge.