Finding the most appropriate e-commerce platform for your business can be a tough call. There are plenty of options to choose from and newer platforms continue to inundate the market making it even more difficult.

Here are a few reasons on why an open sourcee-commerce website development might be the best for you.

1.      There are No Vendor Locks  

This one of the key reasons why most businesses would opt for an open source platform. 

On the other hand proprietary solutions like Shopify or Magento has vendor locks or licensing fees to use an e-commerce platform. With open-source solutions you have complete ownership of your project.

2.      Open Source= Customization

Who wants to have a cookie cutter website that looks exactly like other websites on the internet? Most businesses wants their website to look and feel unique.

Most propriety softwares like Shopify, you can have a template theme. Once this is done there is not much that you can do to customize your website. Yes, there is nothing wrong if you are looking for an off-the shelf e-commerce website so that you can get your business up and running right away, but if you want something more custom open source can offer you much more.

At the same time, there is a provision that you should be wary about. Since open source platforms offers endless opportunities to edit the code it opens up possibilities for developers in software companies in Dubai as well as business owners to create what comes to the mind. If not proceeding with a plan, this might delay your project.  

3.      Integrations

This is an extension of the point customization. A business owner might require many integrations for their e-commerce platforms to perform smoothly. Hence before you select a platform that you want to use, you better figure out if it can integrate smoothly with any third party softwares that you might require.

Some these integrations include Payment Gateways, CRM’s, Shipping Vendors, Accounting software, Analytics and Tracking, Shopping channels and the like.

With majority of proprietary platforms this can be a big deal. Although most proprietary softwares provide plugins and modules that can integrate seamlessly with their e-commerce platforms, but as soon as you need something specific these platforms might not work.

4.      Community Support

A wonderful thing about open source platform is that they are led and supported by a large open source community. Any short comings on the software like a bug that comes up during softwaretesting in Dubai or any other security concern can be solved promptly by the community.