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hello all,
Which is the best cms for the online shopping website(e g. ebay)?????
joomla or droupal???

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asked whether Joomla or Drupal is best for an online shopping site like eBay. Important context (as correctly pointed out) is that both Joomla and Drupal are general-purpose CMS platforms. They can be extended to sell products, but a true marketplace (many sellers, commissions, vendor accounts, dispute flows) requires features that go well beyond a simple shopping-cart plugin. ’s observation about Drupal’s flexibility is accurate: that flexibility helps when business rules are complex, but it also increases development effort.

Key factors to decide (quick checklist):

  • Single seller vs marketplace: marketplaces need vendor onboarding, payouts, and commission logic.
  • Catalog size and product complexity: thousands of SKUs and product variants favor purpose-built e-commerce platforms.
  • Time to market and in-house skill: no dev team → hosted SaaS; experienced PHP team → self-hosted solutions or CMS+extensions.
  • Payments, taxes, shipping and integrations: check native support for gateways, tax engines, carriers, ERP/CRM connectors.
  • Performance, security, PCI scope and maintenance: self-hosted systems need patching, monitoring and stronger hosting.

Which approach fits which situation:

  • Fast launch, low ops burden: pick a hosted SaaS shop (low maintenance, limited deep customization). ’s point about hosted providers is still valid.
  • If the site is a single-vendor store and control matters: choose a dedicated e-commerce platform that matches scale. and were right to push purpose-built solutions when shopping is the primary function.
  • If staying inside an existing CMS is required: accept some trade-offs and budget for extensions and custom work (especially for payments, taxes and shipping).

Practical next steps: write a short requirements spec (must-haves vs nice-to-haves), implement a minimal proof-of-concept covering checkout and vendor workflows, run payment and load tests, and confirm upgrade/patch cadence for any platform chosen. Prioritize platforms with an active security track record and clear support/community resources.

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Member Avatar for Dani

Sorry, don't know enough about either to help you. However, I was under the impression they were both CMS software for publishing articles, not for eCommerce with the ability to manage shopping carts.

Member Avatar for adventeffect10

yeah they are softwares and they are used in e commerce sites but not like CMS

Member Avatar for ecmcircle

Hi,

we can get many features in both joomla and drupal.For an example Drupal is much more flexible when it comes to the development and setting up the theme and layout of the website. Joomla! is known to be surrounded by the paradigms set by itself, and offers less scope to be flexible.
So Both having different kind of features which depends on processing..

thanks.

Member Avatar for SSLMatrix

I will definitely prefer Joomla over Drupal. It's very to use for both users and programmers when we compare it with Drupal. Drupal is also a good CMS but you can get stumped somewhere. In Joomla, it has a large number of extensions, components, plugins, which will be very useful and help you to build your website very quickly.

Member Avatar for rajandass65

the best magento for shoppping cart!!!!

Member Avatar for aditd

I would go with joomla. However if you are interested in ecommerce only site take a look at magento and os commerce.

Member Avatar for xcdear213

I recommend you use joomla

Member Avatar for LABC

Sorry I would say neither of the two that you mentioned. I would personally go for one that involves a monthly fee just because I know it'll be error free most likely. So things like Shopify, Volusion and BigCommerce would be my choices.

Member Avatar for searchsource

Both are best CMS, But i personally say joomla is much good as compare to drupal It is Open source application for creating websites or other web application.It has numerous build-in features as well as a large selection of extra modules and components. it'll give a good experience to your website visitors.

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Member Avatar for edith135

hi
I am also would go with joomla.

Member Avatar for edith135

hi

My think joomla and droupal is well for online shoping website.

Member Avatar for bsemekanik

ebya good

Member Avatar for vikrantholidays

According to me Joomla is best.

Member Avatar for jack jastin

I think Joomla is preferable over droupal because it is much more safe than any other softwares currently being used.

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