This presentation provides an overview on E-Commerce industry scope and available E-Commerce solutions at present. This presentation answers few of the major E-Commerce questions that comes in a business owner's mind. E-Commerce Market Overview • E-Commerce Industry Scope • How Big is the E-Commerce Market? (Stats and Forecast) • Which Are the Top Countries with Most Digital Buyers? • Which Are the Top Countries with Highest Online Sales? • Why Are Your Customers Looking for Your Products/Services Online? How to Embrace the Growing E-commerce Industry? • Create Your Own Online Store • What Are the Available E-Commerce Platforms? • Most Popular E-commerce Platforms (in Top 1M Websites) • # 1 – Magento • # 2 - VirtueMart • # 3 - PrestaShop • # 4 - Zen Cart • # 5 – osCommerce Conclusion

1. E-Commerce:
Market Overview and
Popular Platforms

2. E-Commerce Market Overview
E-Commerce industry scope

3. E-Commerce: Market Overview
How Big is the E-Commerce Market? (Stats and Forecast)
E-Commerce Buyers in MILLIONS
700
654
592
600
523
476
500
391
400
335
300
221
200
100
264
244
157
50
63
30
73
41
193
186
179
171
164
305
295
281
83
50
91
59
98
66
0
2011
2012
Asia-Pacific
2013
North America
2014
Europe
Latin America
2015
Middle-East Africa
2016
73

4. E-Commerce: Market Overview
Which Are the Top Countries with Most Digital Buyers?
E-Commerce Buyers in MILLIONS
450
423
400
375
350
322
300
271
250
200
150
100
50
220
178
150
143
38 33
44 38
43 37
41 35
79
78
77
76
73
70
175
169
163
156
45 38
46 39
0
2011
2012
2013
China
USA
Japan
2014
Germany
United Kingdom
2015
2016

5. E-Commerce: Market Overview
Which Are the Top Countries with Highest Online Sales?
E-Commerce SALES in BILLION USD
400
385
343
350
302
300
250
200
182
150
109
113
110
125
142
128
140
100
57
53
47
38
50
0
2011
2012
USA
China
UK
Japan
2013
Germany

6. E-Commerce: Market Overview
Why Are Your Customers Looking for Your Products/Services Online?
WHY SHOPPING ONLINE?
It's Time Saving
73%
There is More Variety
67%
It's Easy to Compare Prices
59%
There is No crowd
58%
It Offers Less Prices
55%
It Saves Fuel
40%
There are Less Taxes
30%
0%
10%
20%
30%
% Customers Think
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%

7. How to Embrace the Growing E-commerce Industry?
Create Your Own Online Store

8. Create Your Online Store
What Are the Available E-Commerce Platforms?
• There are many E-Commerce software available in the market that
can be used as an E-Commerce platform for your business.
• In order to determine which E-Commerce software is best for your
online business, it is essential to understand different characteristics
and functionality of these E-Commerce platforms.
• Therefore you can pick the best suited E-Commerce solution for
your website according to your business requirements like shopping
cart,
ordering
capabilities,
user
accounts, search, navigation, reporting etc.

9. E-Commerce Platforms
Most Popular E-commerce Platforms (in Top 1M Websites)
Others
7964
23%
Magento
9063
26%
Shopify
826
2%
Yahoo! Stores
1014
3%
Interspire
1106
3%
Volusion
1168
3%
VirtueMart
3324
10%
OpenCart
2425
7%
PrestaShop
2998
9%
Magento
OsCommerce
2461
7%
VirtueMart
PrestaShop
Zen Cart
2515
7%
Zen Cart
OsCommerce
Volusion
Interspire
Shopify
Others
Yahoo! Stores
OpenCart

10. E-Commerce Platforms
# 1 - Magento
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Most popular E-Commerce platform
Open source and free web application
Framework: Zend Framework, Server-side scripting language: PHP
Magento can handle multiple online stores

11. E-Commerce Platforms
# 2 - VirtueMart
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VirtueMart is a Joomla! Extension
Server-side scripting language: PHP
Multiple languages and range of currencies
Unlimited number of products, categories, customers and orders

12. E-Commerce Platforms
# 3 - PrestaShop
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Open source E-Commerce solution
Server-side scripting language: PHP
Supports major payment gateways via respective APIs
Allows multiple high quality product images

13. E-Commerce Platforms
# 4 - Zen Cart
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Open source shopping cart solution
Server-side scripting language: PHP
Out of the box features available
Wide range of customizable options

14. E-Commerce Platforms
# 5 - osCommerce
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osCommerce stands for Open Source Commerce
Server-side scripting language: PHP
Supports wide range of credit-card processors and shipping services
Handles 10’s of thousands products

15. E-Commerce: Market Overview and Platforms
All these E-Commerce platforms are open source and free. They are easily
customizable with respect to the functionalities and website layout, if you
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Reference Sources:
http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Ecommerce-Sales-Topped-1-Trillion-FirstTime-2012/1009649
http://tomrobertshaw.net/2013/03/feb-2013-ecommerce-survey/