Open-source Big Cartel alternatives

Bagisto is an open-source eCommerce and multi-vendor marketplace platform built on Laravel and Vue.js. It provides a flexible, customizable foundation for launching online stores, B2B commerce portals and marketplaces, and aims to cut the time and cost of development while leaving room to customize and scale.

The project's description claims support for catalogs of ten million or more SKUs, and its topics mention headless commerce, multi-tenancy and use as a Laravel package or framework. It is written in PHP and suits agencies and in-house teams that already know Laravel. The repository links to documentation, an installation guide, a Docker installation path and community forums, and the 2.x line was in beta at the time of writing.

Bagisto is MIT licensed, so you can host it on your own servers and modify it freely. It is a fit for merchants who prefer an open codebase over a hosted store builder, and for developers building custom commerce experiences who want Laravel conventions rather than a proprietary platform.

EverShop is an open-source ecommerce platform built with TypeScript, GraphQL and React. It is designed for developers and provides essential commerce features in a modular architecture that can be customized extensively, so teams can build tailored shopping experiences without starting from scratch.

The platform can be started quickly from a Docker image, which saves installing dependencies by hand, and a full installation guide is available. Its documentation covers extension development and theme development, which is how most customization is done, and a demo store lets you see the storefront and admin before installing anything.

EverShop is licensed under GPL-3.0 and runs on your own infrastructure. The project is community driven, with a Discord channel for questions and an issue tracker for bug reports and feature requests. It suits developers and agencies who prefer a JavaScript and TypeScript stack for online stores.

WooCommerce is a customizable ecommerce platform that runs on WordPress, written mainly in PHP. The GitHub repository is a monorepo with the plugins, packages and tooling for developing the core WooCommerce plugin together with its extensions, so it is where the project's code, issues and development discussions live.

Developers working on it need Node.js, PNPM, PHP 7.4 or higher and Composer, and a POSIX-compliant operating system is assumed, with WSL recommended on Windows. The project maintains a development blog and a developer account on X for updates, and the topics reference React, since parts of its admin interface use it.

Because it is built on WordPress, merchants typically run WooCommerce on their own hosting, adding products, payments and shipping through extensions. The repository lists the license as Other, so check the licence terms in the repository. It suits small and mid-sized shops, agencies and developers who already work in the WordPress ecosystem.

PrestaShop is an e-commerce web application written in PHP and released as open source, built to give merchants and shoppers a solid shopping cart experience. It is described as highly customizable, supports the major payment services, is translated into many languages, is localized for many countries and has a responsive design for both the storefront and the back office.

The GitHub repository contains the source code for development and preview, while stable downloads come from the releases page. The stable line is PrestaShop 9.0, first released in June 2025, and the develop branch holds work in progress toward version 9.1. Installing it requires a web server with PHP 8.1 or newer and MySQL 5.6 or later, or a compatible fork such as MariaDB, plus a database tool such as phpMyAdmin. Apache or Nginx are recommended.

PrestaShop is a self-hosted platform, so merchants run it on their own hosting, and the repository lists the licence as Other. Its topics mention CMS and PHP framework use. It suits small and mid-sized merchants and agencies building custom shops with extensions and themes.

OpenCart is a free and open-source e-commerce platform for online merchants. It is a PHP-based shopping cart system that you install on your own web hosting and use as the foundation of an online store, with JavaScript and HTML on the storefront side.

The repository includes installation and upgrade instructions that ship with the download, and the project directs users to a community forum, a GitHub bug tracker and a changelog for the master branch. Bug reports must relate to the core code, since problems with third-party modules or server configuration are referred back to the extension developer, the forum or commercial partners. Security issues are handled through private messages to moderators instead of public posts.

Contributions follow a documented guide covering environment setup, coding standards and pull request expectations. The repository lists a licence of other, so check the project for its exact terms before redistributing. A hosted version of the store software is not described in the repository.

Microweber combines a drag-and-drop page builder with a content management system on the PHP Laravel framework. It aims to let people create websites, online stores and blogs without technical skills, while still giving developers a modern code base to extend.

The README describes an array of modules, customizations and features tailored for e-commerce, and the current 2.0 version runs on Laravel 10. A shopping cart and content management features sit alongside the visual editor, and the documentation covers system requirements, installation and getting started. Topics include website builder and drag-and-drop.

Microweber is MIT-licensed and can be installed on your own hosting. It suits small businesses, freelancers and agencies that want to build a site or store visually, on an open-source PHP stack they can still modify.

Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) is a WordPress plugin for selling digital downloads. Its authors argue that the large WordPress e-commerce plugins have never handled digital goods well, so EDD concentrates on the features sellers actually need rather than every possible option, and aims to make selling downloads easy and complete.

Installed into an existing WordPress site, it adds a store for digital products with payment support, with Stripe among the topics listed by the repository. The codebase has build scripts that prepare installable packages, translations can be contributed in other languages, and the repository serves as a developer portal while customer support is handled through the vendor's support page.

EDD is written in PHP and released under the GPL-2.0 license. Because it runs inside WordPress, you host it with your own WordPress hosting. Documentation, extensions and support are provided on easydigitaldownloads.com, and contributors can raise issues or send pull requests on GitHub.

Vvveb is a self-hosted CMS for building websites, blogs and online stores. It combines a drag-and-drop page builder with publishing tools such as revisions, media management, multi-user access and role permissions, plus localization and multi-language support.

For selling online it adds one-page checkout, subscriptions, digital assets, vouchers and coupons, and product options, attributes, variants, reviews and questions. A marketplace allows themes and plugins to be installed from the admin dashboard, custom fields, posts and products are supported, and a plugin system with events enables extensions. It can also run as a hybrid headless CMS through GraphQL and REST APIs.

The project highlights a small resource footprint, caching that makes pages load like static files, a bundled SEO plugin, brute-force and SQL injection protection, a hidden admin login page and an install where only one PHP file is publicly exposed. It needs PHP 7.4 or later, with 8.3 recommended, and a MySQL, SQLite or PostgreSQL driver. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0.