This top 5 Ecommerce CMS list is based of the Ecommerce usage distribution in the top 1 million sites https://trends.builtwith.com/shop in 2021.
Graph of Ecommerce Usage Distribution in the Top 1 Million Sites
WooCommerce is the most popular Ecommerce CMS in 2021 with a market share of 28% in the top 1 million websites.
WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress. Launched on September 27, 2011, the plugin quickly became popular for its simplicity to install and customize as well as the fact it is a free base product.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WooCommerce
Shopify is the second most popular Ecommerce CMS in 2021 with a market share of 20% in the top 1 million websites.
Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company that offers online retailers a suite of services "including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants."
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopify
Magento is the third most popular Ecommerce CMS in 2021 with a market share of 9% in the top 1 million websites.
Magento is an ecommerce platform built on open source technology which provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system, as well as control over the look, content and functionality of their online store. Magento offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and catalog-management tools.
Reference: https://www.commonplaces.com/blog/what-is-magento/
PrestaShop is the fourth most popular Ecommerce CMS in 2021.
PrestaShop is a freemium, open source e-commerce solution. The software is published under the Open Software License (OSL). It is written in the PHP programming language with support for the MySQL database management system.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrestaShop
Squarespace is the fifth most popular Ecommerce CMS in 2021.
Squarespace, Inc. is an American website building and hosting company which is based in New York City, United States. It provides software as a service for website building and hosting, and allows users to use pre-built website templates and drag-and-drop elements to create and modify webpages.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarespace
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