Open-source Ecwid 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.

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.

EC-CUBE is an open-source e-commerce platform developed in Japan and written in PHP on the Symfony framework with Doctrine ORM and Twig templates. The repository README, which is in Japanese, is aimed mainly at developers, while ready-to-install packages are distributed from the official EC-CUBE site.

The current development line is 4.4, with older 2.x and 3.x versions maintained in separate repositories. The documented environment is Apache 2.4 with mod_rewrite and mod_ssl, PHP 8.2 through 8.5, and PostgreSQL 13 through 18 or MySQL 8.4 LTS. Front-end styles are written in Sass and JavaScript is bundled with esbuild, and a Docker Compose setup is available for development.

Developer documentation lives at doc4.ec-cube.net and accepts pull requests, community discussion happens in a developer forum and Slack, and contributions follow a published guide with CI checks for code style, static analysis and tests. The license is listed as Other, so review the terms before commercial use.

thirty bees is an e-commerce solution that started as a fork of PrestaShop 1.6.1.11 and remains compatible with almost all PrestaShop 1.6 modules. The project emphasizes stability, correctness and reliability of its feature set so that merchants can concentrate on growing their business rather than chasing breaking changes.

Its roadmap focuses on removing very old code such as PrestaShop 1.4 backward compatibility, dropping outdated or pointless back-office switches, managing JavaScript and CSS vendor packages, bringing the modules it ships up to the standard of the default ones, and moving the back office to Bootstrap 4. The installer checks requirements automatically, and the supported environment is PHP 7.4 to 8.3, Apache or nginx on Linux or macOS, and MySQL 5.5.3 or newer or MariaDB 10 or newer, plus several PHP extensions.

thirty bees describes itself as committed to being free and open source, funding itself through a backers program. It is written in PHP and you host it on your own server. The license is not stated in the repository metadata, so check the repository for the exact terms.

Module Shop is a simple, modular e-commerce system built on .NET 8 and documented in Chinese. It splits the application into self-contained modules, runs on Docker, Windows, Linux and macOS, and supports Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite. It is free and open source, aimed at .NET developers who want a store back end they can extend.

The back-end service lives in the repository's server folder and exposes a documented REST API, with Swagger available for online calls and comments in Chinese. A mock API controller exists for development and demo sites, to simulate administrators and buyers and reset sample data. The README lists many API controllers, covering accounts, application settings, cache, countries, uploads, user addresses, carousel and HTML widgets, brands, categories, products and product attributes.

A demo of the admin site and the API documentation is available online. The project uses Entity Framework Core and is MIT licensed. The README also advertises other projects from the same author, but this entry is only about the store system, which you deploy and operate yourself.

SmartStore.NET was an open-source e-commerce shopping cart solution built on ASP.NET MVC, aimed at businesses that wanted an enterprise-capable online store they could run and customize on Microsoft-centric infrastructure. It combined storefront, cart and checkout functionality with content-management and page-builder features in the same system.

The platform included its own CMS and page builder, Lucene-powered search, SASS-based theming with Bootstrap 4 styling, support for liquid templating, Entity Framework 6 data access, Autofac dependency injection and Azure deployment compatibility, reflecting a fairly complete, enterprise-oriented .NET e-commerce stack.

The README states this repository is outdated and no longer actively maintained, and directs users to Smartstore 5, its successor built on ASP.NET Core. It required IIS 7 or newer, ASP.NET 4.5 or newer, and SQL Server, and the Community Edition was released under the GPLv3 license.