What kind of ecommerce system to use

There are several interesting packages which enable you to build your own webshop.
Of course there is no best and no worst , they all fit different needs.
Being just a small guy you probably wont be needing an Magento webshop but it is nice to know that ezpzhosting offers this for free to go with your hosting account.

What e-commerce system should I use

What are the different e-commerce systems that you can use for your shop, or that wont kill our little starters Budget.
I will review the different kind of ecommerce systems  below and try to give a link to the demo sites so you can see the packages in working condition.

Virtuemart :

This e-commerce package is free to use under GPL licence. It runs on top of a Joomla installation and is therefor one of my personal favourites.
I think it has advantages over the other packages because you can use the joomla templates and the joomla cms for your new articles, newslinks and other things like a forum for on your webshop.
All this is nice integrated in the Joomla installation and layout of your website.
With this virtuemart extension it is very easy to add a webshop to an already existing Joomla website.
The nice thing is the free community that joomla uses and all the available free extension
Virtuemart has already working payment modules integrated and there are free extensions found for virtuemart on the internet

You can download virtuemart shopping cart for joomla for free

Magento:

This ecommerce system has several options. You can buy the full supported version for $10.000,- and have full support.
Still installing etc you need to do yourself.
There are several magento plans