Online representation of your business is vital in these days. There are many costlier options to get a state-of-the-art Ecommerce websites, but every business requires considering their own budgets and every budget is unique, so the costlier options do not suit every business. Thus there is a universal option that is inexpensive, delivers adequate ecommerce development solutions, and above all is easy. It is open source ecommerce. 

Open source software is freely available and all you need to do is use the open source be ecommerce development tools  and build a fully functional Ecommerce Website. When the website is ready to be deployed the only thing remains is hosting your ecommerce website and reaching out to a big multitude of potential market and customers.

First let us solve the mystery of domain name and web hosting. Web hosting is really easy and you need to do some research before you go on to buy a hosting account on any website. First get clear which hosting is best suited for your ecommerce website – shared hosting or dedicated hosting. Select a web hosting plan and register a domain name that matched your product type on the ecommerce website.

There are many open source .Net tools for ecommerce development, the ones build on PHP are much more poplar and effective such as osCommerce, Magento, X-Cart, Zen Cart, PrestaShop, and so on. Once you have a domain name registered and a hosting account you are ready to go and launch your ecommerce website online.

Next you need, as mentioned before, a suitable and effective open source ecommerce development tool. There are plenty of them out there but or Magento has being stealing the show in past few years. There's no restriction, choose whichever you may but be sure to know the tool inside out to utilize its powerful features and functionality optimally. When you have chosen an ecommerce development tool you need to install it on the server where your website is running. With each tool there is a door opened to a wide resource of plug-ins, add-ons, themes and much more to be used with your ecommerce development tool. 

By following the above procedure you are a webmaster of a state-of-the-art ecommerce website. Through this website you can easily sell your goods and manage an online business. When orders are placed on the website you get emails to keep a track of your customers, and manage inventory.