NopCommerce

nopCommerce
Original author(s) Andrei Mazulnitsyn
Developer(s) The nopCommerce development team
Stable release
3.70 / December 9, 2015 (2015-12-09)
Development status Active
Written in C#
Operating system Windows
Type Online store
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.nopcommerce.com/

nopCommerce is an open-source E-commerce solution based on ASP.NET MVC 4.0 and MS SQL Server 2008 (or higher) backend Database. It is available under the nopCommerce Public License V3 and officially launched in October 2008 for small to medium-sized businesses.

History

Nopcommerce development started in 2008 by Andrei Mazulnitsyn in Yaroslavl, Russia.[1] In 2009, the Nop Solutions were founded and expanded to a company of two. Later that year, Microsoft recognized nopCommerce as significant and included it to Microsoft Web platform Installer.[2] The company has its offices in Yaroslavl, Russia.

The first versions introduced basic functionality and main features such as order processing, attributes, plugins, discounts, tier pricing, news, blogs, private messages, forums, tax and shipping support . In June 2010, a new data access layer was introduced in version 1.70. Version 2.00 (August 2011) launched nopCommerce as an ASP.NET MVC based solution. Later in 2011 nopCommerce moved to ASP.NET MVC 4. Versions 3.00 and 3.10 was extended to include multi-store and multi-vendor features and to simplify the product logic. In versions 3.5 and 3.6 and 3.7 a new modern and responsive template were included. The version release cycle is 5–6 months.

Usage

As for December 2015, Builtwith.com reports that 25,511 websites that have used nopCommerce [3] and that the market share for nopCommerce among top sites is 2.5%.[4] The installation package was downloaded more than 1.7 million times.[2][5]

Business Model

nopCommerce can be downloaded, installed and used free of charge. The community forum provides free support. There is an optional fee for white-labeling. Until 2014, the documentation was downloaded on a paid basis and now is available free of charge.[6]

Сommunity

nopCommerce has an active community of users and developers, which provides assistance to other users contributes with code, plugins and other extensions and helps to the planning of the roadmap.[7] It has 107 solution partners in 37 countries providing custom development, graphic theme creation, and other services.[8] The stackoverflow.com has more than 750 questions tagged "nopCommerce".[9] Current marketplace offers more than thousand plug-ins and themes. As of December 2015, the program had been translated to 30 languages. On the 30th of October 2015, the first conference of the nopCommerce community #NopDevDays took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, attracting more than 65 delegates from 14 countries.[10]

Awards and recognitions

In 2010 and 2011 nopCommerce had reached the final in Packt Open Source E-Commerce Award.[11] nopCommerce is in the featured and top 5 most downloaded applications provided by Microsoft Web Platform Installer.[12] In 2013, nopCommerce was chosen as the best finance app by Russian WebReady awards.[13] In January 2016, nopCommerce won CMScritic's "Best eCommerce for SMB" award.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cart of the Week: nopCommerce, retrieved 2015-12-30
  2. 1 2 http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/nopcommerce.aspx
  3. ↑ http://trends.builtwith.com/shop/nopCommerce
  4. ↑ http://trends.builtwith.com/shop/open-source
  5. ↑ http://nopcommerce.codeplex.com/stats
  6. ↑ http://docs.nopcommerce.com/display/nc/nopCommerce+Documentation
  7. ↑ http://www.itworld.com/article/2897652/use-nopcommerce-create-an-online-store-in-minutes.html
  8. ↑ http://www.nopcommerce.com/solutionpartners.aspx
  9. ↑ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nopcommerce
  10. ↑ http://nopdevdays.com/
  11. ↑ http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/packt-publishing-opens-voting-for-2011-open-source-awards-012750.php
  12. ↑ https://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery
  13. ↑ http://web-ready.ru/novosti/pobediteli_web_ready_2013/
  14. ↑ People's Choice CMS Award Winners
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