ERPNext does have ecommerce. All of it's modules are free. The whole thing's integrated with it's back-end accounting and inventory system. There may be some features you might not need because it's primary purpose is for back office usage.
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Wow, thx. That looks really good. At one point I've tried Odoo and decided it was too much and too complicated for me. But this looks a bit cleaner. And everything seems to be free software, even some of the add-ons. I definitely have to try this. I just hope it doesn't eat all the resources on my VPS.
I used to run a network of ecommerce sites ~10yrs ago.
Back then there wasn't an ecommerce platform that was 100% free for everything. Sooner or later you'd be forced to buy something. Whether is WooCommerce CSV importer or OpenCarts courier plugin - there's always something.
Having said that I would say you can go a long way without doing that on:
- Wordpress + WooCommerce
- OpenCart.
- Medusa
- Ecwid
- PrestaShop
- Spree Commerce
- Bagisto (Laravel-based platform)
- Shopware (German)
Thanks. I think I'm going to spin up a container and try a few. I had hoped there was a hobby project entirely without important paid add-ons, maybe a hobby project or something by the free software community for niche use cases. But I see, I'll probably have to use one of the proper solutions. I got quite a few recommendations now.
What you're asking for is a CMS, there is no online sales tool I know that does all those things in a single PHP/JS script. Woocommerce does pretty much everything you need and is open source.
You can loop in Bitcoin lightning payments (also open source) and not be dependent on or pay fees to any third-party CC processor. Fees are often less than 1 cent per transaction and confirm instantly. You can run your own payment server (BTCPayServer) which is quite easy to setup or outsource that job to a third party. There are free woocommerce plugins for this. If you have your own lightning payment system, nobody can block payments to it or do chargebacks (assuming here your website remains live and/or you have some way to communicate checkout details to customers).
Prefer credit cards? Paypal, stripe, etc all have free integrations with woocommerce. Well, the plugin is free, obviously you pay high fees and risk chargebacks and go through a not fun KYC process but it is what it is. They may decide they don't want to do business with you for some reason, in which case you can't use them.
For shipping labels, woocommerce does provide free integration with major shipping providers. You can also use shippo or pirateship which are often cheaper.
Odoo
Haven't used it yet myself but it seems to be quite versatile
OpenBazzar, but honestly I'd reconsider woocommerce
OpenBazaar is discontinued. I'll reconsider woocommerce but I really would like to skip on the wordpress...
Why? You'll kick yourself later when you dont have the features you need and you'll be spending more time developing software than running your business.
WordPress is half the 'net
Everything you've described can be done with Drupal
Drupal is a major pain in the ass. I have multiple years experience with every major CMS. I loathe drupal. Unless you are building a super complex website and want to manually handle theming and a bunch else? Skip drupal. Drupal has the potential to be powerful and useful. I've only ever seen it be powerful.
Can it be done nicely with Drupal? I mean everything is doable with Drupal, it's more the question: do I have to code/program a whole online shop in the process?
not from what I recall, there's a module "commerce" (and many extending modules) that can be installed through the admin webui. I think they already have a Drupal spin where the more popular commerce modules are included with the install
I know that dolibarr has a eCommerce module. You can self host it and it is foss as far as i can tell. Not sure how well the module would fit in to your use case but perhaps worth a look.
Dolibarr looks good to me. But their website says "In the future, Dolibarr will provide its own eCommerce module [...] tentative date of availability is: the end of 2026."
It seems to have lots of nice features, but not an online shop.
Hello ! You might find Sylius suitable. It’s an Open source framework based on Symfony.
Im pretty sure it has all your requirements. The thing is that it’s a headless framework, so a frontend needs to be built on top of that if you want some custom features.
Hope that helps !