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Top 5 Open Source eCommerce Frameworks (2026 Update)

Saurav Pathak on March 06, 2019

According to CAGR estimates, the global e-commerce market will grow at a rate of 11.34% over the period 2020-2024, reaching US$6.07 trillion. Below...
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Knowband •

Good overview of the open-source ecommerce landscape. Each framework has its own strengths, and the right choice ultimately depends on factors such as business size, customization needs, technical expertise, scalability, and long-term maintenance. Rather than focusing on a single "best" platform, evaluating the ecosystem, community support, and available extensions is often the key to selecting the right solution for a successful ecommerce project.

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ADONIS SIMO •

There are also some very good tools within the Python/Django world. Like, shuup, saleor, oscar. They are very mature and powerful.

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ADONIS SIMO •

Oscar I built to be extensible and customizable.

Shuup: bring you some well working process like multi vendor websites

Saleor: it use some mature tech like GraphQL

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Saurav Pathak •

Thank you Adonis for providing with the above information. Will surely look into those too.

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Abhishek •

I want to choose one. Should I go with mezannine cartridge or Oscar or Shuup . Please reply

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ADONIS SIMO •

Sorry for the late reply.

I will say it depends on what you try to build but I think one of those tree will be enough.

Shuup will be great as it doesn't record such a lot of work, at least compared to Oscar, but both resolve different aspects of the e-commerce website.

If you can clarify what kind of website you try to build I may be able to give you more details and guideline to help you make a choice.

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Abhishek •

Thanks a lot for replying. I am looking forward to build a furniture e-commerce which will allow users to :

a.) Select products from catalogue, add to cart and checkout.
b.) Select combination of products, for example , there can be a living room section & a kids room section on the catalogue on the ui. the user can choose from both the sections, color variants of the products & add them to cart for checkout & pay . They can also use coupon codes as well.

I am considering Django Oscar , i have never tried it but know Django quite well.

Can you suggest any reading material which you think can help in understanding the components & parts of e-commerce in some better ways. I am using google to understand it .

Sorry for this late reponse too. I don't get any notification i guess from Dev.to

TIA

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Camel Djoulako •

Please can you give me one best JavaEE ecommerce framework?

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emilime •

I'm interested too!

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Saurav Pathak •

I will check into that and let you know.

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HelgaaaaM •

For me the best e-commerce platform is Magento!It was born to be an e-commerce. It is flexible,open source,multiple tasks at the same time. So my choice is Magento,but I know a lot of people choose Shopify,cause it is easier

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Saurav Pathak • • Edited

Hi HelgaaaaM,

Well yes, I totally respect your views and Magento is for sure the bible of eCommerce. However, considering a large number of developers working on laravel and the ease to use that, Bagisto - the laravel eCommerce frameworks is surely the thing of the future to look out for. Being an open source, it also makes it easy to customise as per your requirement.