Which is the Best Free ecommerce platform to launch an ecommerce store?

[size=14pt][font=arial]Greetings Jacob,
There are many free eCommerce Platform available on Google But I Personally recommended you for #Magento, Its user friendly and there any many free plugins are available. magento is a best secure CMS for an eCommerce Website.

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[size=16pt]Magento Features List[/size]

• Device-specific media capabilities for audio and video
• User-friendly search and results display
• Clean display of product detail pages
• Pinch, multi-touch and scaling images
• Easy swipe between product images
• Zoom capabilities
• Cross-sell and up-sell capabilities
• Drag-and-drop of products to the shopping cart Responsive Design
• Quickly create a site optimized for any device using an included responsive design reference theme
• Can be easily customized for a fast time to market
• Includes all major flows, product types, and features
• Reduces long-term maintenance costs and eases site updates
• Offers SEO benefits by using Google’s preferred approach to optimizing mobile sites
• Customer Accounts
• Account dashboard
• Address book with unlimited addresses
• Wish list with ability to add comments
• Order status and history
• Re-orders from account
• Recently ordered items
• Default billing and shipping addresses
• Email or send RSS feed of wish list
• Newsletter subscription management
• Product reviews submitted
• Product tags submitted
• Downloadable/digital products Customer Service
• Contact Us form
• Create and edit orders from the admin panel
• Feature-rich customer accounts
• Order history with status updates
• Order tracking from account
• Password reset email from front-end and admin panel
• Order and account update emails
• Customizable transactional emails International Support
• Support for localization, multiple currencies and tax rates
• Includes support for WEEE/DEEE in EU
• Support for accented characters and right to left text
• Configurable list of allowed countries for:
• Site registration
• Shipping destination addresses with ability to specify per shipping method
• Billing addresses with ability to specify per payment method
• European Union VAT-ID validation facilitates the tax collection process by automatically applying the correct tax rules according to VAT customer groups
• Analytics and Reporting
• Integrated with Google Analytics
• Admin dashboard for report overview
• Sales report
• Tax report
• Abandoned shopping cart report
• Best viewed products report
• Best purchased products report
• Low stock report
• Search terms report
• Product reviews report
• Tags report
• Coupon usage report
• Total sales invoiced
• Total sales refunded
• Checkout, Payment and Shipping
• One-page checkout
• Guest checkout and checkout with account to use address book
• Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
• Option for account creation at beginning of checkout
• SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
• Saved shopping cart
• Accept gift messages per order and per item
• Shopping cart with tax and shipping estimates
• Saved credit card method for offline payments
• Configurable to authorize and charge, or authorize only and charge on creation of invoices
• Integration with multiple PayPal gateways
• Integration with Authorize.net
• Accept checks/money orders
• Accept purchase orders
• Additional payment extensions available through Magento Connect
• Offer Bill Me Later as a payment option
• Shipping integration with label printing - view, edit, print labels for all major carriers
• Integrated for real-time shipping rates from:
• Ability to specify allowed destination countries per method
• Flat rate shipping per order or item
• Free shipping
• Table rates for weight, sub-total, destination and number of items
• On-site order tracking from customer accounts Order Management
• View, edit, create and fulfill orders from the admin panel
• Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order to allow for split fulfillment
• Catalog Browsing
• Layered / faceted navigation for filtering of products in categories and search results
• -Filter products by price and display a range of prices based on even increments or by a similar number of products within each range
• Static block tool to create category landing pages
• Product comparisons with history
• Configurable search with auto-suggested terms
• Breadcrumbs
• Ability to assign designs within category and product level (unique design per product/category)
• Recently viewed products
• Popular search terms cloud
• Product listing in grid or list format Product Browsing
• Multiple images per product
• Product image zoom-in capability
• Related products and upsell
• Stock availability
• Multi-tier pricing upsell
• Product option selection
• Grouped products view
• Add to wish list
• Send to a friend with email
• Share on Facebook
• Catalog Management
• Simple, configurable (e.g. size, color, etc.), bundled and grouped products
• Create different price points for different customer groups, such as wholesalers and retailers
• Virtual products
• Downloadable/digital products with samples
• Unlimited product attributes
• Attribute sets for quick product creation of different item types
• Inventory management with backordered items, minimum and maximum quantities
• Batch updates to products in admin panel
• Automatic image resizing and watermarking
• Advanced pricing rules and support for special prices
• Search results rewrites and redirects
• Moderated product tags and reviews
• Customer personalized products – ability to upload images and text (i.e. for embroidery, monogramming, etc.)
• Customer sorting – define attributes for customer sorting on category (price, brand, etc.)
• RSS feed for low inventory alerts

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Thank you so much such very nice information..

Hi quality1,
I think you are right as per the user friendly and security purpose Magento is Good, If you are not Good In Magento so I Suggest you to go with [b]Opencart[/b]. Open cart is also a Good CMS you can get  eCommerce features in it and there are also many plugins which is free of cost.

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[b][size=14pt]Front End Feature:[/size][/b]

• Unlimited Categories
• Feature Product Listing
• Product Image Zoom in Zoom Out
• Product Rating
• Several payment gateways Plugins
• Multiple Currencies Support
• Product Feedback, Rating and review
• Unlimited information pages
• Discount coupon system
• Affilated Account Management
• Search Engine Optimization
• Live Chat Option
• Social Media Integration
• Discount Coupen Manage

[b][size=14pt]Admin Features:[/size][/b]
• Login panel
• World Map
• Add Unlimited Category
• Add Unlimited Product
• Sales Analytics
• Recent Activity
• Latest Product Order Detail
• Downlaod Sales Report
• Multi-store management
• Discount coupon management
• More Plugins

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Prestashop is also best for E-Commerce platform.

Where prestashop give following type of services

In front end side following features

Front End Feature:
   
    Unlimited Categories
    Feature Product Listing
    Product Image Zoom in Zoom Out
    Several payment gateways Plugins
    Multiple Currencies Support
    Unlimited information pages
    Search Engine Optimization
    Social Media Integration
    View Order Status
    Download Invoice
    My Credit Slip
    Multiple Image View

Admin Features:

    Login panel
    Add Unlimited Category
    Add Unlimited Product
    Sales Report
    Latest Product Order Detail
    View Customer Details
    Price Rules
    View Order Details
    Shipping Option
   

https://www.prestashop.com/en/download

The growing simplicity of these eCommerce platforms are allowing new entrants with non-technical backgrounds. Keeping these trends and changing requirements of the modern eCommerce business in mind, Here identified best eCommerce platforms that are likely to serve a range of entrepreneurs (from individuals to established merchants) most effectively in 2017.


Shopify
Magento
Opencart
ShopyGen
Nwebkart
Prestashop
BigCommerce
Big Cartel
Yokart
Woocommerce
Pixpa