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Ecommerce Tools for Small Businesses

Small Business eCommerce software enables small businesses and freelancers to build their own online store.

Build your own ecommerce store with Zoho. Get a professionally designed, fully functional website without a designer price tag. Learn more about Zoho Commerce
Zoho Commerce is an ecommerce platform that lets businesses build their own ecommerce website, accept orders, track inventory, process payments, manage shipping, and market their brand. They don't need an agency or experience with coding but still enjoy the benefit of numerous ecosystem integrations. Zoho Commerce powers businesses in 30+ countries with plans fitting every need and budget. Learn more about Zoho Commerce

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Boost your digital journey using our AI-powered eCommerce platform backed by 22 years of enterprise eCommerce experience. Learn more about ewiz commerce
ewiz commerce is an AI-powered eCommerce platform that allows you to digitize all your business functions at speed and scale. Built, managed, and hosted by Powerweave, you save time and money as you don't have to chase or coordinate with multiple parties to get things done. ewiz commerce can be easily integrated with your third-party apps and comes with a built-in product recommendations & marketing automation system. Contact us for a free demo! https://www.ewizcommerce.com/free-consultation/ Learn more about ewiz commerce

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Clerk.io's AI uses your customers' behavioral data to automatically optimize search results, product recommendations & email marketing. Learn more about Clerk.io
Clerk.io is e-commerce personalization software that helps small-business online stores acquire, convert and retain more customers through AI-driven technology. Clerk.io automatically analyzes behaviors, trends, and transactions to present shoppers with highly relevant search results, product recommendations, emails, ads, and more that increase sales 15-30%. Join thousands of leading brands around the world and start delivering personalized omnichannel shopping experiences today. Learn more about Clerk.io

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Create, manage and grow your online presence for your business, blog, store and more with Wix’s intuitive website creation platform.
Wix is an industry-leading web creation and business management platform with everything needed to manage and grow an online presence. Craft a seamless user experience with intuitive design features and speedy web performance. Fall back on reliable infrastructure and enterprise-grade security to safeguard visitor data and keep your site running. Expand your reach with marketing campaigns and SEO tools, plus leverage analytics to drive informed decision-making for your business’s success. Learn more about Wix

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to easily sell online, at a retail location, and everywhere in between.
Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to easily sell online, at a retail location, and everywhere in between. Shopify offers a professional online storefront, a payment solution to accept credit cards, and the Shopify POS application to power retail sales. Shopify currently powers over 160,000 retailers in 100 different countries, including: Tesla Motors, Gatorade, Forbes, Amnesty International, Encyclopedia Britannica, Maxim Magazine, CrossFit, Black Milk Clothing, Herschel Sup Learn more about Shopify

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful website, online store, or portfolio.
Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions in more than 200 countries with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity, creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold, and hospital business management via Tock. Learn more about Squarespace

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
NetSuite SuiteCommerce provides seamless & automated online experience with unified front- and back-end systems, and minimized IT cost.
NetSuite meets the evolving business requirements of fast-growing companies at every stage of their growth. As the #1 choice to run financials/ERP and ecommerce applications in the cloud, NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce ecommerce solution helps B2B and B2C merchants deliver engaging and relevant online experiences for their customers, while unifying end to end management including inventory, ordering and fulfilment, customer relationship, and financials all in a single place. Learn more about NetSuite

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Just pick a template, then customize fonts, colors, and content to match your style.
GoDaddy Website Builder is an online editing and publishing tool that helps you create a website, regardless of your technical skill level. Just create an account, pick a design and use the built-in editor to add your own images and text. You can make your website as simple or complex as you'd like. You can even add a full online store complete with product listings, coupons, shopping cart, shipping, and multiple payment options. Learn more about GoDaddy Website Builder

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Grow your Small Business and keep your customers coming back through exclusive software and help from ShippingEasy.
Every business needs to keep customers coming back! ShippingEasy's Small Business Ecommerce software gives you access to discounted USPS and UPS shipping rates and lets you print labels in no time. An intuitive interface helps growing small businesses integrate seamlessly, automate workflows, and receive unlimited support from shipping experts. ShippingEasy is loaded with tools that help you create repeat business and provide better customer service. Learn more about ShippingEasy

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
All In One Marketing Platform for small business eCommerce solutions.
Small business eCommerce platform. Everything you need to manage and grow your business. Sell on social and search with the shop app fully integrated with Marketing 360. Easy to use payment processing and eCommerce site integrated with your marketing. Learn more about Marketing 360

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
This cloud-based POS centralizes inventory management, employee management, sales reporting & accounting across locations and channels.
This POS platform makes retail easier for everyone. Whether you’re just getting started or building your empire, Lightspeed’s got you covered. Simplify inventory management with a sophistacted product catalog that unites all your locations from a single dashboard. - Manage Inventory faster - Get Lightspeed's Hardware - Create exceptional customer experiences - Keep an eye on performance in over 40 built-in reports - Lightspeed Payments Learn more about Lightspeed Retail

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
ShipStation is a web-based shipping software whose seamless automation offers the fastest, most affordable way to ship your products.
With ShipStation, you can scale your business without growing your workload. Ship more orders in less time—with fewer clicks and greater savings. Manage orders from all of your ecommerce stores, tools, and selling channels. ShipStation provides discounts and integrations with carriers like USPS, UPS, DHL Express, Canada Post, FedEx, Royal Mail, AUSPost, and more. ShipStation’s workflow automation speeds up fulfillment whether you’re running an enterprise business or just starting out. Learn more about ShipStation

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
You can create a website with Webnode in just minutes. Join our 40 million users and build one yourself.
If you want a good looking website in short time Webnode is the way to go. Launched in 2008, it has helped over 40 million users create their own websites. It doesn’t matter if you need a professional website for your company, a beautiful portfolio or a user-friendly e-shop, you have the right tool to build the website just the way you want. Anyone can build a website with Webnode. You don’t need to hire programmers or designers or pay for hosting. Learn more about Webnode

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Powerful inventory, accounting and order management for SMBs with multi-channel sales. Integrate with major online eCommerce platforms.
Manage inventory, accounting, and orders from multiple eCommerce channels with Cin7 Core. With native integrations with major online platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, Etsy, eBay, and more, Core keeps track of stock levels and prevents overselling. Generate accounting transactions automatically for all stock movements. Ideal for small and medium businesses whether retail, wholesale, manufacturing, or food production businesses with multi-channel eCommerce sales. Learn more about Cin7 Core

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Adobe powers billions in B2B ecommerce with a platform that boosts operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and revenue growth
Adobe Commerce unlocks the power of data to create hyper-personalized commerce experiences out-of-the-box that drive deeper customer engagement and higher sales for global B2B and B2C enterprises. With a feature-rich, cloud-native platform that is also highly composable, Adobe Commerce can be easily customized to fit your business and reduce your time to market. Support for multiple sites, markets, business models, and storefront solutions ensure you have the agility to win in today's market. Learn more about Adobe Commerce

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Ecwid is the easiest to use eCommerce platform for small business. Easy to embed or perfectly responsive as a standalone solution.
Ecwid is the small business ecommerce platform you've been dreaming of. Easily embedded in any website or perfectly responsive as a standalone platform, Ecwid lets you sell online, on Instagram, on Facebook, on Amazon, on Google Shopping and any other marketplace from a single dashboard. Everything from checkout to inventory management, customer marketing to online sales, Ecwid integrates with all the leading payment gateways, POS and gives you ecommerce superpowers. Get started for free. Learn more about Ecwid

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
A leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce platform that empowers merchants of all sizes to build, innovate, and grow.
BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC) is a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce platform that empowers merchants of all sizes to build, innovate and grow their businesses online. As a leading open SaaS solution, BigCommerce provides merchants enterprise-grade functionality, customization and performance with simplicity and ease-of-use. Tens of thousands of companies across 150 countries and numerous industries use BigCommerce, including Ben & Jerry’s, S.C. Johnson, Skullcandy, Sony and Vodafone. Learn more about BigCommerce

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
PrestaShop is a leading global ecommerce company serving customers in over 190 countries.
PrestaShop is a leading global ecommerce company serving customers in over 190 countries. We provide inclusive, customizable, scalable and well-supported solutions, to empower each entrepreneur to fully own, control and grow their online store. PrestaShop is part of MBE Worldwide (mbecorporate.com), a commerce-enabling platform which also counts on 3,150+ Business Solution Centers in 52 countries. In 2022, MBE and PrestaShop together unlocked commerce for over 1 million business customers worldwide. prestashop.com Learn more about PrestaShop

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Tailor Brands is a revolutionary business-building platform that simplifies every step of starting, managing, and growing a business.
Tailor Brands is a revolutionary business-building platform that simplifies every step of starting, managing, and growing a business. With a comprehensive all-in-one solution that connects all the tools needed to build a successful business and provides personalized guidance on how to effectively utilize them. From LLC formation, obtaining business permits and licenses, to crafting a unique brand identity and online presence - Tailor Brands has it all in a centralized and connected experience. Learn more about Tailor Brands

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Square Online allows small & medium-sized sellers to grow their business with a professional eCommerce website & integrated tools.
Start selling online today. Design and launch your eCommerce website with Square Online now for FREE. Theres no startup costs or monthly fees. Only pay when you make a sale, just 2.9% +30 cents per transaction. Square Online works seamlessly with Square Point of Sale to automatically sync your online and in-store orders, items, and inventory. No more overselling and manual reconciling. Plus, connect to Instagram and sell on social media, offer shipping or in-store pickup, and more. Learn more about Square Online

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Create online courses. Build membership sites. Start online discount stores. Or just go creative with the entire suite.
Starting a business of your own doesn't need to be that hard. When you have the right resources for setup, growth, and scaling at your disposal, you have the power to create the perfect cocktail for success. Meet VENTTURE (formerly Invanto). Ventture aims to not only empower passionate individuals with their dreams of starting an online business through its business builders, but also educate them, and assist them in their journey towards owning their destiny and becoming truly self-reliant. Learn more about Ventture

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Website optimization tools used by 500,000+ sites worldwide. Heatmaps, recordings, surveys, live chat and more included in every plan.
Learn why website visitors aren’t converting to grow sales and capture leads. Installation is easy and doesn’t require coding experience. Quickly find valuable sessions with Optimizable Segments that show you frustrated, confused, bounced visitors and more. For one price, you get Heatmaps, Session Recordings, Surveys, Announcements. Conversion Funnels, Form Analytics, Visitor Profiles, Live Chat & Live View and a real-time Dashboard. Start your free trial today; no credit card required. Learn more about Lucky Orange

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
Kajabi is the all-in-one tool created to empower people to build digital products, market, and sell their expertise online.
Kajabi is the best way to monetize your knowledge online. Build online courses, membership sites, communities, podcasts, coaching programs, and digital downloads. Use our templates to jumpstart your content sales. Market with a fully-fledged website, CRM, affiliate marketing, and sales funnels. Grow your business with analytics, payment processing, and included customer training resources. Learn more about Kajabi

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
The subscription-first all-in-one commerce platform with everything you need to start and grow any kind of subscription business.
Subbly is a subscription-first commerce platform with everything you need to successfully run your subscription-first business including: a drag & drop website builder, subscription plans, membership plans, regular one-time products, shipping rules, order management, a funnel builder for up-sells and cross-sells, automations & integrations, inventory management, customer login area, and API, and much more. And above all else, an incredible support team and community to help you at every step. Learn more about Subbly

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses
We help make it easy to get paid. It's that simple. We've been helping businesses accept payments anytime, anywhere since 1996.
🏆Voted the Best Payment Gateway for Fraud Prevention by Forbes! Authorize.net helps makes it simple to accept electronic and credit card payments in person, online or over the phone. Get solutions that go to work for your business and let you focus on what you love best. A community of nearly 500,000 merchants strong. That's a lot of passion. As a leading payment gateway, Authorize.net handles more than 1 billion transactions and $149 billion in payments every year. Learn more about authorize.net

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  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Order Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Website Management
  • For Small Businesses