nopCommerce

nopCommerce is an ASP.NET 4.0 platform for selling goods online, tailored to work together with an MSSQL database and other Microsoft products.

It features an embedded graphic installer, so nopCommerce can be setup in few minutes and run immediately, and also a top notch admin panel for managing the store's content.

There are two separate parts of the nopCommerce system, one for managing the store details, and one working as a classic CMS, used in administrating the site's pages, forums, news, blogs, and so on.

The store's frontend is customizable via themes, and its functionality can also be extended via modules.

There are lots of e-commerce related features included as well, like the ability to manage discounts, customer accounts, wishlists, peek into current shopping carts, and also create custom product pages with lots of different product attributes listed.

Admins can also run nopCommerce in a multi-lingual setting, catering to different user groups, from different countries, or speaking different languages.

All in all, nopCommerce is one solid toolkit for creating online shops with ASP.NET, proving that Microsoft's language is up to par with all the other programming languages around.

The e-commerce platform is available for free under an open source license, but to remove the copyright notice from the footer a commercial license must be purchased.

What is new in this release:

• Web farms and multiple instances in Windows Azure
• Conditional product attributes
• Access control list (ACL) for topics
• Allow users to apply for vendor account in public store
• Notes for vendors
• Discontinued products page
• Apply discounts to categories, including subcategories
• Significant performance and security enhancements

What is new in version 3.50:

• Rental products support added.
• Support for new tax rules for Europe Union from 2015. Find more info at http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/how_vat_works/telecom/index_en.htm#new_rules
• Better warehouse support and inventory control. Now a single product can exist in multiple warehouses. Thanks a lot to nopDynamics for this contribution.
• Allow a store owner to define custom address attributes (similar to "Custom customer attributes").
• Allow a store owner to see all existing extensions and themes in admin area (from nopCommerce official site).
• Now specification attributes support several types (option, custom text, HTML text, hyperlink).

What is new in version 3.40:

• Significant performance optimization.
• Added full support for in-store pickup.
• Dropped jQuery mobile version support. We already have responsive design available out of the box (since 3.30).

What is new in version 3.30:

• Significant performance optimization.
• Now the default theme is responsive out of the box.
• Admin area user interface. Moved from outdated Telerik MVC Extensions to KendoUI.
• Search engine optimization. ID-less topic URL pages.
• Added an option to automatically give customers a role if they purchase a specific product (when order is paid). It can be used for paid membership.

What is new in version 3.20:

• Performance optimization.
• "Facebook shop" plugin added. It helps store owners to present their store products on Facebook.
• Warehouse support added. Also allow a store owner to decide whether the system should or should not use warehouse location when requesting shipping rates. This is useful when you ship from multiple warehouses.
• Allow a store owner to configure and specify delivery dates (for products).
• Better UI for the default theme. Now it has the top menu with categories and a new footer.

What is new in version 3.10:

• Performance optimization.
• New more user-friendly product/product-variant logic. Now we'll have only products (simple and grouped).
• Bundle products support added.
• Allow a store owner to associate product image for product variant attribute values.

What is new in version 3.00:

• Multi-store support.
• Multi-vendor support.
• Performance optimization.
• Search engine optimization. Rich snippets support added, etc..

What is new in version 2.80:

• New clean and modern default theme.
• Added ACL (access control list) support on manufacturers.
• Search engine optimization. ID-less URLs for news and blog posts.
• Added "Color squares" attribute control type.
• Now a store owner can specify any custom value for specification attributes on the product details page (filtering is not supported for such specification attributes).

What is new in version 2.70:

• Added ACL support (access control list) on products and categories.
• Minify and bundle JavaScript files.
• Allow a store owner to decide which billing/shipping address fields are enabled/disabled/required (like it's already done for the registration page).
• Moved to MVC 4 (.NET 4.5 is required).
• Now Visual Studio 2012 is required to work with source code.

What is new in version 2.65:

• Complete HTML markup and CSS refactoring.
• Performance optimization.
• Source code refactoring.
• Search engine now can search in product tags. Currently it's done only on the advanced product search page. But you if want to do it on some other pages, then simply pass "true" for "searchProductTags" parameter in "SearchProducts" method of IProductService.
• Added order review info (billing & shipping addresses, shipping & payment info) to the order confirmation page.
• Updated all third-party assemblies to the latest versions.
• Update jQuery Mobile to the latest version (1.1.1).
• Added several new "installation" language packs.
• Added a setting ('securitysettings.forcesslforallpages') indicating whether all pages should be forced to use SSL.
• Made cart/wishlist links clickable on the notification bar.
• Product export/import should handle product variant name too.
• Multi-step checkout did not persist entered values such as selected shipping or payment method when customers went back from the confirmation page.
• Print "print order details" page on load.
• When you click "Apply coupon" or "Apply gift card" button there should be a warning message if customer left input field blank.
• Admin area. Localization page. Replaced Telerik combobox with standard HTML dropdownlist.
• Display a more descriptive error text when an active tax provider cannot be loaded (for example, you did not properly deploy plugins).
• Developers. Added two more widget zones on the productdetails page - productdetails_top and productdetails_bottom

Requirements:

• ASP.NET 4.0
• MS SQL 2005 or higher