But at present, it is becoming simpler as there are lot of free templates and software available so you can create your own online shop. As there are various types of software available, but we’ll be discussing here a few major softwares,

OSCommerce
OSCommerce is one of the powerful e-commerce applications which you can download it completely free from the internet. With the OSCommerce it is really easy to build an online shop and maintain it with almost no efforts. Also OSCommerce is easily to install through the Fantastico from your cPanel.

OSCommerce also features templates system, which makes it easy for a beginner to start an online e-commerce store. Templates system will allow you to make all the changes required and integrate all that is required to make the site attractive to the online customer. Many free templates available on the web, just find one and use for your shop.

Some of the templates are designed by the professional web designers and developers and these templates are not free. You have to pay for these templates. If you are willing to pay some money for it, you can try out paid templates.

Magento
Magento is also an open source e-commerce solution. Magento has the professional Web 2.0 look, which many designers love, and it sets itself apart immediately from OSCommerce, Zen Cart, and the other existing ecommerce systems with well laid out templates and easy set up of site sections for your catalog display.

It also offers a large number of payment gateways incorporated out of the box, product judgment, tags, polls, internationalization support, advanced reports, analytics, and SEO optimized URLs, coupons, discount codes, catalog management, wishlists, cross-sells, and related items. You can create orders from the admin section for offline or call center sales, and managing shipping is easy with built in calculation for USPS, UPS, DHL, Fed Ex, and other delivery services. Magento will also automatically calculate sales tax on orders and supports multiple currencies on the same site.

PrestaShop
Another open source e-commerce software. With Prestashop, you can build your own search engine friendly online shop, with a nice look. However, Prestashop offering these features,

• It comes with built in, complete modules to run your online store without too much harass, it’s just like ready, set and go.
• You can choose a free theme to suit your online store. You can modify them, or create one.
• Templates system is smarty based, easy to modify.
• Off course it’s FREE, it’s GPL Licensed, you can use it whatever you want, without spending a dime.

Now, if you don’t want to go through all these problems creating ecommerce websites and your pockets are filled with money and you are willing to spend it, you can contact the experts. If you want your store with your own requirement then you can hire any custom web development team to help you out. For some, hiring service from your local area might add extra benefits for you in future, just in case you want to bring further face to face discussion with your developer.