: Best tools to build a ecommerce website First I would like to apologize if this is not the forum to be asking this question. If you can point me to the right forum, I will post my question

@Tiffany637

There's a ton of potential answers to this. I've built dozens of shopping carts and worked on ecommerce systems that did six figures in daily transactions. Some have been custom, some have been off the shelf systems. There's pros and cons to each. Overall it tends to be much more complicated than most anticipate.

With that in mind, I suggest some of the following requirements for you:


Pick an existing cart with a good support community
Pick a cart with a good track record that is fairly lightweight and nimble - at this point you probably don't want to get burdened down by hundreds of features you don't need
Figure out what you absolutely need in a cart - eg, digital downloads, inventory tracking...


I have used WordPress for a lot of smaller sites, and used wp e-commerce with it as well. I've grown tired of that plugin, and recently deployed woocommerce www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/ for a client. It's working great. It's well supported, easy to get started and offers a lot of customization capabilities.

It will also help you with the rest of the site since it's based on WordPress and there's plenty of options for things like a homepage hero/slider, pictures...

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