35 Free High-Quality E-Commerce Templates
For website owners who are evaluating e-commerce solutions, there are several good options for powering websites and shopping carts. Regardless of which option you chose, deciding on a design brings with it even more decisions to make. Of course, a custom design is always an option, but for those who want to keep costs down, templates are a popular choice. Premium e-commerce themes are easy to find, but they can be expensive. Free e-commerce templates are difficult to find, and quality free templates are even harder to find.
We’ve done the research for you, and in this post we present 35 of the highest-quality free e-commerce templates available. There are templates specifically for WordPress, Prestashop, osCommerce, Magento, Zen Cart, CubeCart, and CRE Loaded, as well as a number of general e-commerce templates. Please notice that these templates aren’t intended to be used 1:1, but should rather be used as a skeleton for your own shop and hence saves a lot of work, because otherwise you would have to start from scratch.
1. WordPress Templates
Crafty WordPress Theme | Demo | Download
WordPress e-Commerce Plugin | Download
2. Prestashop
PrestaThemes
A collection of free high-quality templates for PrestaShop.
3. osCommerce Templates
4. Magento Templates
Modern Theme | Download from Magento
Blue Skin | Download from Magento
Telescope Theme | Download from Magento
Pet Store Theme | Download from Magento
Free Magento Theme from Template Monster | Download
Electronics Store 3 | Download from eCommerce-Themes
5. Zen Cart Templates
Free Zen Cart Template | Download
Acadame | Download from ichoze.net
6. CubeCart Templates
Clean Blue
A collection of free CubeCart 3 Skins. More free Cubecart skins.
7. CRE Loaded Templates
8. General E-Commerce Templates
The following templates were created for the purpose e-commerce but not built for a specific system. If you plan to use one of them, it would need to be adapted to and integrated in the e-commerce solution of your choice. Templates with valid HTML code are marked.
Pet Shop | Download (valid HTML)
Auto Parts | Download (valid HTML)
Gadgets Template | Download (valid HTML)
Online Movie Store | Download (valid HTML)
Books Online | Download (valid HTML)
Beauty Company | Download (valid HTML)
Hi-Fi Technics Store | Download
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Shir
January 25th, 2009 8:04 pmThis is beautiful THANK YOU !
Brent Riggs
January 25th, 2009 8:06 pmAs a professional designer, I use to hate seeing this free stuff because it made me less needed.
But I love it now because the “nice” side of me likes to see the average person have access to good design rather than going with a bunch of hokey ugly stuff.
Free stuff opens up the Internet to everyone.
Mr. Jones
March 1st, 2010 11:53 amDon’t try to sell yourself here, buddy!
Desperation stinks!
Bob
August 27th, 2010 8:42 amWith all due respect, your response, sir, is an utter waste of time!
Why do you even bother writing anything when you don’t have anything to say?.. Just to hear yourself?
Just wanted to point out to you in case you are unwaware that it’s best to keep meaningless opinions to oneself. Thank you.
Joe
August 20th, 2011 6:34 pmHey Bob, Practice what you preach!
John
May 26th, 2010 9:09 pmshameless plug.. i wouldnt advertise your website if i was you
Bill
June 15th, 2010 11:43 amPerhaps you two guys above could learn something from Brent…While you’re giving the guy a hard time for leaving a link (get over it) he just got a GOOD backlink whether you look at his site or not.
Fabian
July 4th, 2010 7:00 amPerhaps you should understand what constitutes a “GOOD backlink” because it’s certainly not one with rel=”nofollow”…
BrentBobBill
September 21st, 2010 5:50 amBrent / Bob / Bill is obviously all the same guy.. but yeah, its not a good plug because his design is terrible.
Ryan
September 28th, 2010 1:05 pmI actually felt bad for Brent getting hated on for his comment until I checked out his site and saw not only terrible design but a blog full of religious vomit and some posts that many will consider seriously offensive.
If SM wants to keep my respect, they would take that link down…. it has nothing to do with web design.
Here is a direct quote if you can’t find what I am talking about….
“Liar, thief, adulterer, cheat, gossip, glutton or homosexual…all have equal access to Christianity ON GOD’s TERMS”
“persons who fit the description of 98% of today’s terrorists [Muslims]”
Get this crap off SM
warpdog212
May 29th, 2010 2:38 amWell Brent, as it is said, “actions speak louder than words”, and, “tha’ proof is in the puddin’”. If a picture is worth a thousand words then the beauty of your site has nearly encompassed a considerable amount of the known vocabulary for “well done”! You, as well as smashingmagazine, have done excellent work regarding web design and implementation. I am here because I can’t afford your quality, (as are others…), but do desire a quality site for cheap (free—–”just keepin’ it real”). Thanks. Bookmarked you and hope to send biz your way. peace out…
Brent Fails
September 28th, 2010 1:33 pmYour web design sucks… and your a prejudice bible thumping douche bag
Thumper
January 7th, 2011 6:45 amYour English sucks, and you’re an anti-christian bigot.
Brent SUX
April 21st, 2011 5:35 amBrent’s site is utter crap. I’ve never seen such a terrible website in a long time. Brent you’ve FAILED!
DKumar M.
January 25th, 2009 8:19 pmBig Disappointment! where is CubeCart….Also you missed some good templates of osCommerce, Magento & Cre Loaded…I started with oSCommerce which was really easy any most popular but then i shifted to CubeCart…. Now finally I’m working with new generation E-commerce solution Magento which is Simply Excellent. The only flaw with Magento is that it’s only built for Unix operating systems. Although there is some tweaks for windows installation which is not recommended by the developers. Still Magento is the Best E-commerce solution seen so far.
Good post Steven !! Thanks for sharing Free Stuff !!
DKumar M.
spydeeyk
January 25th, 2009 8:21 pmThank you for the great list..
there is any wordpress for e-commerce themes for free?
urmi@cse-lab
January 25th, 2012 2:24 pmI have the same question, looking for free hokey ugly stuff, because I really like this, because of it is FREE!
ImagiumWeb
January 25th, 2009 8:28 pmI’ve looked for free Magento cart templates but didn’t see some of the ones posted. Thanks!
Mike
January 25th, 2009 8:29 pmNo Zen Cart templates?? Well they are about to release version 2.0, which will revamp the templating system… but still I think it is an oversight to leave them out.
Chris Wallace
January 25th, 2009 8:30 pmI have a long background in e-commerce and have watched as EVERY e-commerce store that uses one of these templates FAIL every single time.
Mark Khan
December 2nd, 2011 1:02 pmHey Chris,
So what do you suggest. I’m looking into getting a t shirt e commerce site… a bit lost.Hope you can make some suggestions.
Many thanks
Mark
Jeff
January 25th, 2009 8:36 pmChris, care to share insight as to why they fail? Is the failure solely the templates, the business model, both?
DKumar M.
January 25th, 2009 8:39 pm@Mike… i guess you missed the Zen Cart templates which is right under 4th heading. scroll again !!
@spydeeyk… You might want to search “Crafty Cart” on google for free wordpress theme. Also there is “WordPress e-Commerce plugin” coupled with Crafty Cart makes for one heck of an e-Commerce solution.
shel
January 25th, 2009 9:10 pmhigh quality?
riiiight
Deep Ganatra
January 25th, 2009 9:32 pmSmashing Magazine is known for it’s best quality, each and every post is full of resources and high quality. But posts like this really hits bad on the quality part.
I am not saying, this post isn’t helpful but the title “High Quality” is really misleading. You can’t rate any of these templates as “High Quality” ones, the quality surely lacks in most of them.
Just my 2 cents though.
Regards,
Deep
ThemeLib
January 25th, 2009 10:21 pmNice!
Noam
January 25th, 2009 11:09 pmBeautiful designs!
Thanks, That’s really great!
Andrei Gonzales
January 25th, 2009 11:48 pmOh wow… these are Template Monster-quality.
In other words: worthless.
Pradeep
January 25th, 2009 11:51 pmGood post..!!!
Thanks for sharing free stuff…!!!
I got a e-commerce project recently..
these are my inspirations…
Thanks…
Juliet van Ree
January 26th, 2009 12:01 amUsually I don’t reply here, because there’s normally little to ad. The posts are good so I digg them on digg and that’s it.
Today I saw in my rss reader that you were doing a post on ecommerce templates. Since I’ve designed 3 stores on Zen Cart I thought I’d check it out.
I was quite shocked to see you promoting Template Monster Templates. Template Monster tweaks the code. Not in a normal way, but in a non compliant with zen cart way. So if you install a template from template monster, most of your overides and additional modules don’t work any more. There are however very nice free templates available trough various sources on the internet. There’s even a site where you can testdrive them.
So I hope the author will digg a little deeper to look into the ecommerce systems a bit better.
Other than that, Smashing Magazine rocks!
Juliet van Ree
Ash
January 26th, 2009 12:05 amI usually admire your great work, but this time I must admit that I’m quite disappointed by the quality of this list. Those sites are awfull (“sexy pink” must be a joke…)
Keep up the good work anyway.
Amir
January 26th, 2009 12:07 amPrestashop is da best opensource ecommerce solution so far…
Mark
January 26th, 2009 12:10 amAre these templates free to be used in a commercial ecommerce service whe are building?
dvb
January 26th, 2009 12:11 amPersonally I think most of these “Free High-Quality E-Commerce Templates” looks like crap! If youre ambitions is to boost sales I think spending $150-200 on a nice looking commercial template is a good investment! Just my opinion!:-)
Mike
January 26th, 2009 12:19 amwhat a sh… all look templatemonster-like and isn’t beautiful at all. Dissapointed.
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
January 26th, 2009 12:43 am@Mike (#21): they don’t have to look beautiful, they must be functional and be easy to customize. That’s the point of this article, not their beauty. They are not intended to be used as is.
Jakob Løkke Madsen
January 26th, 2009 12:46 amI would never use a free template like these for an actual project. I can’t see why anyone would be satisfied with investing so little time in the public face of their business.
Still it’s always interesting to see lists like this for inspiration. Even the ugly ones make you think about why they’re ugly, right!
One thing that strikes me, though, is this:
Why do none of the themes place the main product categories in the top navigation bar? Are there any documented usability benefits from listing the categories down the left side? Would it be too many tabs?
Or has it just become the norm for e-commerce design to lay it out this way?
Matt
January 26th, 2009 12:58 amthis list is average. kinda dissapointed. Its just a big list of templates from templatemonster. erghhh.
would have been better to actually see a list of creative examples of real examples. Generic themeing really does suck.
Trey
January 26th, 2009 12:59 amWarning: WP-Commerce has a lot of bugs with the new WP 2.7.. Hope they fix them soon.
krizba
January 26th, 2009 3:00 amWhat a perfect timing, as I intended to start from scratch my e-project… Many thanks, keep smashin’!
dams
January 26th, 2009 3:02 amnice. but when will free forum skin goes out ?
kruz
January 26th, 2009 3:13 amgood job… nice site! thank you!
PB
January 26th, 2009 3:52 amThank U very much……. it’s really useful …. XD
Riccardo
January 26th, 2009 3:56 amThis will be a useful post for me – a friend wants to set up a small store of her own, and these examples will give me a great starting point. Thanks!
Steven Snell
January 26th, 2009 4:20 am@Juliet,
“So I hope the author will digg a little deeper to look into the ecommerce systems a bit better.”
There were a few days of digging for this post. There aren’t very many decent free e-commerce templates out there and there aren’t very many good resources for finding them. I don’t claim to be an expert on all of these systems, but I do feel that this post is at least a helpful resource for people looking for theses templates, because they’re quite difficult to track down.
Vygantas
January 26th, 2009 4:32 amDoes anyone else receive old rss feed news? Like yesterday I got ~5-10 “font” related news which were posted last year.
Trond
January 26th, 2009 5:03 am@Vygantas:
Yeah, the same thing happend to me yesterday…
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
January 26th, 2009 5:58 am@Vygantas (#32) and @Trond (#33): it seems that Google Reader has some problems with our feed. We checked the feed and it’s OK. It’s not the first time already. We’ll contact Google folks to look into this problem.
Chris Wallace
January 26th, 2009 6:09 am@#8 Jeff: I used to work for MonsterCommerce, an e-commerce shopping cart company that was purchased by Network Solutions and dismantled/rebranded. I did custom storefront designs for clients who purchased the shopping cart. I can count on two hands the number of stores I designed that are still in business. Those were the custom design clients. We also integrated templates for people. None of the template sites I did still exists.
If you own an e-commerce business and are serious about being around a long time, you need to believe in your business enough to do it right, get a custom design, get a custom storefront if you require it. Your storefront can be very basic but still be very successful if you have a unique product or service. Don’t think people can’t spot a TemplateMonster site from a mile away and be put off immediately.
Steve Williams
January 26th, 2009 6:54 amGreat to see so many templates, however I have never used an ecommerce templates as they are usually too restrictive. Over the years I have found my clients are all looking for bespoke or custom ecommerce design.
The main reason for this, I believe every ecommerce company operates different. For example free delivery on all orders over £50, Automated emails, delivery note processing, product page layouts etc. The list is endless.
It is good to see clean ecommerce designs and templates, they just need to be further enhanced to ensure they meet the clients requirements if they are used.
Splatzone
January 26th, 2009 8:29 amWow, awesome stuff! I’m bookmarking this for future projects.
Devise
January 26th, 2009 9:03 amI’ve used several of these throughout the last few years. DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING WP Ecommerce .. It is a complete nightmare if you have any intentions of doing customizations aside from simple color / font changes.
Honestly if you have any hopes of taking any of these templates and customizing above a 5% range .. or integrating your own theme into their functionality .. I hope you have a budget in the thousands .. and even then I hope you can find a few people who’ve dove head first into the shallow end prior to you.
Smashing should do more research into these things before claiming anything.
IT
January 26th, 2009 9:40 amAre there any good templates or solutions for mobile phone ecommerce?
Michelle
January 26th, 2009 10:33 amFINALLY! I’ve been waiting for such a list for 2009. It’s taken me far too long to find something I can use with wordpress and that doesn’t cost a fortune. I will be checking some of these out. Thanks guys!
PS: Does anyone recommend Market Theme? I am seriously going bonkers trying to find a simple solution
Sean Hurley
January 26th, 2009 12:02 pmWhere are Drupal Themes!
nick
January 26th, 2009 12:29 pmWow, nice themes here. And for free, dang. I am a designer, and it doesn’t bother me at all!
Kevin
January 26th, 2009 12:50 pmI just love those who like to complain about things given to them for free :p Presumably they mostly can’t or won’t read … “Please notice that these templates aren’t intended to be used 1:1, but should rather be used as a skeleton for your own shop and hence saves a lot of work, because otherwise you would have to start from scratch.”
Thanks to Smashing as always.
Jason Bartholme
January 26th, 2009 1:24 pmGreat collection of templates, Steven. I’m bookmarking these for future projects.
mikemike
January 26th, 2009 2:01 pmNice that people are so excited to lower their value by receiving the same stuff they can charge for free, but in a templatized format of PHP garbage. I’m glad I’ve moved on from this over-hyped “design” career to something much better.
Sara
January 26th, 2009 2:36 pmI have been using the wordpress e-commerce plugin for a few of my stores recently, and I have to say that I love it. In the past I have used Zen Cart, CubeCart, OsCommerce and Magento, and I feel like wp e-commerce is FAR easier to use and customize than the other carts. There is no complicated template system. You control everything (store and non-store) through one admin. And as long as you are familiar with CSS, you can pretty much get it to look anyway you want. While there have been a few bugs, the guys at Instinct have been incredibly responsive and helpful.
deMelo...
January 26th, 2009 4:02 pmThere were many reasons why I choose wordpress e-commerce over all the others… the main reason was that it was the first cart to embrace digital downloads in very real way… not just an after thought… or a module thrown in at the end to appease a few users… not only was the digital downloads well thought out… but many aspects of the functionality of the cart where exactly what I had envisioned (after months of research)… and it actually did these things out of the box…!!!… Once I started using the cart I was amazed that you could just start turning off things like shipping and reducing the checkout form to say ‘name’ & ‘email’ without even touching the code… This Is Truly A Versatile Cart… and whoever first decided on this level of flexibility and functionality deserves an award…!!!… :)
devskull
January 26th, 2009 8:43 pmThe only thing nice about them, is that they are free.
pista
January 27th, 2009 3:14 amseriously I think this is the worst thread you’ve ever posted…
those designs are HORRIBLE like early ’00s templates, the whole web is full of those sh.
I work for a company making a lot of e-commerce websites and it was really hard to find inspiration for such a specific kind of website, but I had to and clients are satisfied I hope…
so my advance… as far as you can go, MAKE YOUR OWN DESIGN!
;)
Sorin
January 27th, 2009 5:55 amI wouldn’t go that far with the ones for osCommerce. I just worked on two of them and the coding isn’t that good. They’re way nicer than other templates indeed and free on top of it :) but, coding wise … not so much :)
thanks a lot anyway …
DavidL
January 27th, 2009 7:28 amI agree these are just horrible, if you’re just getting into ecom then I would suggest to never start with these templates. You’re only going to get frustrated and have a crap site. The comments here give better info than the post so its not all a loss.
I Hussey
January 27th, 2009 10:53 amInteresting comments this post will save me some time on up and coming projects, there are so many carts out there I waste ages comparing them all based on this post and my investigations I think the best two in my opinion are wordpress and magneto.
Excellent place for resources and sure if you want to code an ecommerce website from scratch stay off templates but if you are like me and pushed for time with customers who don’t want to pay the full wack then there is nothing wrong with modifying a good template.
Andrew
January 27th, 2009 11:56 amI hate to complain, but no Joomla./Virtumart templates?
Still, nice collection of freebies.
Dan Milward
January 27th, 2009 1:10 pmWoah there. Am I sensing some design snobery ;)
E-Commerce “design” is about making online sales and many of these themes are all about helping people (retailers etc…) make online sales – if you don’t believe me check out the SEOMoz site and read up on many of the 17 or so proven design techniques to help you make online sales. Heck if “google product search” follows these rules “and” if it works for them then it will work for you too… trust me :)
The themes in this article suit that particular need.
The next generation of e-Commerce design though could be a totally seperate article in its own right that I’d love to help write. I have been researching “product swarms” and 3D malls just to name a few…
In that sense this article is very helpful and will help many people sell online (people that are not necesarily designers) get a shop up and running in no time.
Heck judging by some of the comments here you would think that they reckon smashingmagazine was made purely for them… as opposed to any other readers that potentially don’t care whether their shop has latest grunge background ;)
Pop
January 27th, 2009 6:46 pmLove Ya!!
Harnish
January 27th, 2009 7:19 pmExcept for a couple of templates this is a disappointment. No great user experiences.
Byron
January 28th, 2009 12:55 pmIt´s good… May be you make a post of web side agriculture
cari
January 28th, 2009 3:22 pmgreat post – thanks for sharing.
Will
January 29th, 2009 10:17 pmA great set, thank you. X-Cart templates would be nice to have as well.
Chanux
January 30th, 2009 8:09 amTimely…….
Steffen
February 3rd, 2009 5:02 amI like the “Free Zen Cart Template” from Template-Monster and decided to use it for my upcoming e-commerce project. But I´m wondering about the detail information about the free templates on Template-Monster: “[...] please note there are conditions and limitations associated with using these free website templates [...] All free samples are presented here with a trial purpose solely and are for your personal use only.”
In my opinion this makes no sense here because nobody is building a e-commerce site only for his personal use. It has always a commercial background.
So please be careful by using supposed “free” templates.
seger bagio
February 10th, 2009 3:40 amI can’t believe it’s free. You force me to bookmark this nice blog. Thanks a lot..
Benedikt Roßgardt
February 12th, 2009 7:40 amI think, only a few themes look pretty good, but considered, that they are for free, they are all pretty good ;) cheers
Fouetieu
February 23rd, 2009 12:47 amAllo!
thas is so good, thank you
Merci c’est vraiment proféssionnel ces disign
Brant Schroeder
February 25th, 2009 1:31 pmNice Post
XT
February 27th, 2009 9:15 amThis xtcommerce template is just as free
Hiren Dave
May 4th, 2009 11:26 pmHI,
It’s a very fantastic.
i am very happy to this whole site.
Thank You
Al
May 7th, 2009 12:44 pmAwesome collection :)
Sebastian K.
May 9th, 2009 10:59 amI want to use the template “Prestashop” for my webshop. Results you`ll see here http://www.sk83.de
Eddie Gear
May 15th, 2009 11:03 pmHi there,
You have put together a good collection of templates. I’ve been doing some study on e-commerce templates and there some good ones here. Thank you for sharing.
Cheers,
Eddie Gear
remlawi
May 21st, 2009 4:03 amhello every body,
i think the open source world is really open, let us just enjoy it…
Callum
May 22nd, 2009 12:37 pmI am using coffee cup. When I open it has lots of different apllications and files which do I go to open it up in coffe cup to edit.
izzet
June 23rd, 2009 1:22 pmthanks…
its fantastiq theme..
luis
June 26th, 2009 1:27 pmyou can find more oscommerce template at www [dot] ezosc [dot] com / templates
Thanks
mystert
August 5th, 2009 10:10 amyo im new at this sorry to ask but when i tr to upload template it needs home.html i make a home.html dreamweaver n put in the zip and it still says i dont have it any1 help?
pusp joshi
August 8th, 2009 8:48 pmthanks samshingmagazine.com its really good work keep it up
Fatfreddy
August 16th, 2009 5:06 amAnother useful list from SM, added this to my AJAX one you made last year.
Are you at any point in time going to publish a list of “SM lists”?
Never dissappointing and as the author says, offers inspiration – I always come away thinking “hmmm, I could use that for….”
M4rkrz
September 22nd, 2009 7:30 amHi all,
I have been looking through these great templates in order to start my own on line shop. This would be my first trip into this area – I am good on computers but feel im lacking in the knowladge to choose what is right for me.
Can someone please help? I notice some of the templates are “loaded” with a back ground branded system. Is this free also?
Do I download the templates and then upload my whole site onto my own web space?
Excuse my lack of experiance! Its pritty confusing !
Thanks
M
mauro campos
September 30th, 2009 4:33 amvery good post!! congratulations
tarun
October 23rd, 2009 8:43 pmhaha i can’t belive it
Jon
October 30th, 2009 6:31 amFree templates have their place and there are some nice examples here. They are fine as long as you understand their limitations and their function. And there’s no substitute for a custom site done by an experience web designer who truly understands your business! But it’s good for customers with different needs and varied budgets to have lots of options.
Souika
November 10th, 2009 1:34 amThank you for this collection.
It’s hard to find good Magento template.
Good job !
Kathryn
November 12th, 2009 5:11 amidk ya’ll. there’s an awful lot of bashing going on here.
for those of you who are designers…of COURSE the canned stuff looks lame.
for those of us who simply want to get to work…they’re fine.
Anton Ranestam
November 20th, 2009 3:10 pmReally good post, alot of nice themes!
Ananya Roy
November 27th, 2009 4:40 amToo good, just excellent quality. Thank you very much for sharing.
Recently I came through a site which offers some good designs as well. I thought may be useful to share this with you.
It is QualityFreeTemplates.com
charles
December 3rd, 2009 2:12 amthis is really helpful,
anyone has to share some free templates that might be used as a starting point to sell records/music? thanks………
Hypaepa
December 17th, 2009 10:24 amJe ne les trouve pas de bonne qualité. Un peu décue par leur simplicité.
christ
January 2nd, 2010 5:28 amthis article needs an update. many links are outdated like the first theme for OSCommerce cannot be downloaded anywhere …and so on.
also many themes/carts have seriously improved…e.g. the ones for wordpress.
the author should make a 2010 compilation!
Sanjit
January 11th, 2010 4:32 amYes Ananya, I also see the site QualityFreeTemplates.com and it is really excellent
Reynold Hugh
January 12th, 2010 5:06 amReally beautiful and useful collection! This collection is covering all the basic requirements of the site! I have a question that why is there no German and Spanish Version in the free osCommerce Template
rama
January 19th, 2010 10:54 amall nice templates
thank you
LadyinRed
February 9th, 2010 2:31 amGood job. The free templates posted here may not please everyone.but this listing does a great job in compiling the freebies that people can use to expedite their web development works.
Some may not be the best looking themes but still useful as short cuts to the production time line and getting their websites ready through some tweaking.
Gurdeep
February 11th, 2010 9:03 amNice stuff …….
chapo
February 16th, 2010 11:53 amnice very nice thanks a lot
jackp
February 24th, 2010 3:52 pmI downloaded 5 of these themes and uploaded them to my wordpress themes folder AND NONE OF THEM show up in Apprearence>Themes… what’s up with that?
Jessica
February 25th, 2010 5:57 amI think its funny what people expect for free. I’m very pleased to find these because I need to throw up a store quickly to move some merchandise before I move offices. This is perfect for my needs…building excitement before the launch of the actual store and unloading inventory so I don’t have to move it myself!
Manh Cuong
March 12th, 2010 5:35 amThat’s very useful. Thanks a lot!
Rob
March 23rd, 2010 7:43 amAnyone know of any free x-cart templates?
shiela
March 25th, 2010 7:07 pmAnybody can provide a free pink free template that could be applicable on this site yourowncart.com
just like this pink and cute e commerce website lovelyspree.com
pdxdoug
March 30th, 2010 7:19 pmBeware of Template Monster templates for ZenCart – maybe other platforms too. There are many problems and many ZenCart features may not work due to the non-standard methods used by Template Monster.
See the ZenCart forum for more information
Sahand Elmi
April 19th, 2010 12:13 amGreat !
thank you
M.Saleem
April 20th, 2010 8:37 amThis is amazing normally these type of templates are vey high $ but this is free Thank you very much
Phill
June 29th, 2010 7:16 amThanks for post.. I think replies just as informative as post ty
TXRUS
June 29th, 2010 11:53 amGreat looking themes. Can’t believe they are free! I was looking for some to redo my website txrus.com and I think I have found them!
Thanks,
Mickey
Yuga Eko
July 6th, 2010 6:02 pmthanks for this great surprise.. but, Are there any tutorial for install?
waden
July 24th, 2010 2:59 pmgreat job! I think its will be nice for my online store lapakherbal.com. Thank you very much
parewa
July 24th, 2010 3:09 pmwow, many nice themes, its will be really valuable and important one that its free! Thank you very much for great job
parewa
sirish
July 24th, 2010 10:54 pmi wann pages which r design in jsp..
Ken
August 14th, 2010 9:33 amThanks for some great themes. I especially like the CRE loaded templates.
@ladokoetoe
August 20th, 2010 8:35 pmnice template bro…
ebay Plugin
September 8th, 2010 9:13 pmthese are some really great layouts, in WordPress though – I wonder how many would work with just simply an eBay Plugin
tomy
September 10th, 2010 9:49 amVery interest … i’m bookmark your site :D
hope you’ll update more wp ecommerce theme.
cheers
Josh
September 14th, 2010 3:56 amGreat design.. i like it so much!! Just for sharing, there are some nice zen cart templates at i-techz.com/professional-zen-cart-templates/professional-zen-cart-templates-template-elegance/, i just downloaded, hope you like it too!
Nivrutti NItave, Web Designer,Pune
September 17th, 2010 5:01 amVery Nice Design
Blog Lulu Kemaludin
September 26th, 2010 7:45 amwow… Beautiful designs! Thank’s…
Ramya Writes
October 17th, 2010 9:17 amWhat the hell? Few of your links are directing to some porn site. You guys are spoiling your name.
Mike
October 18th, 2010 8:30 pmI would have to agree with Chris Wallace.
These Free Templates can be a good ‘starting point’ but should not be the final product. Thinking like that generally leads you to poor results because it is a symptom of something deeper. It’s called Cheapskate Syndrome. Clients who are looking for “free” templates don’t understand the value of a professionally designed template and are generally not willing to get serious about their brand/presence/site which infects every area of their business – HR, marketing, etc.
St
October 22nd, 2010 6:36 amDead Download Link …
Santiago
October 25th, 2010 5:39 pmthis list is average. kinda dissapointed. Its just a big list of templates from templatemonster. erghhh.
would have been better to actually see a list of creative examples of real examples. Generic themeing really does suck.
Randy Turner
November 13th, 2010 4:03 pmI had ventured out to hire a professional from India, Core Web Connections to be exact. I had read all of his reviews on the guru site and spoke to an agent from guru that reassured me that Core Web Connection reputation was good. So, I paid upfront to have a website completed. Boy! Was that the worse decision I’ve ever made. Core Web Connection was a nightmare a novice like myself could ever experience I have yet till this day to receive my website. At the end they showed no professionalism, nothing for their work. I’d avoid them like the plague if you’re considering hiring the group from India. Anyways, I believe in Karma, this will come back to haunt them.
Not a leaf falls but that He knows it.
Gary
November 15th, 2010 1:57 pmAnother site not listed with zen cart templates. Anyway I agree with Chris Wallace. You should order unique design as soon as you got enough money from sales. Template is just starting point.
Jason
November 22nd, 2010 9:04 amFor those of us still working our way through our current economy to find alternate sources of income during this wonderfully optimistic Hopefully Changing o’ time… web design is a bit of a pita. Templates are great… at being templates. Gee whiz, kids, what is your problem? (other than jealousy, insecurity, a lack of being able to keep up, etc.)
I need a website to work with, not to live my life around desiging. Web design is as useful as being a professional skateboarder. Teaching others and furthering the sport is it’s entire raison d’etre.
Web Designers right now seem akin the ‘artistic egos’ of the last millenia, with a million aspiring Van Goughs all splashing voluminous outpourings of never-before conceived notions across the canvas of the http://www... a million ‘Madonna wannabe’s” – or, like a vocal artist denegrating all other forms of life that don’t hear the subtle 38-note intonations contained in their single millisecond syllabic utterances…
many of your posts miss the point that templates are great THOUGHT starters. It encourages people who see a picture they like, try to copy it, make something of their own. Monkey see, monkey do. It furthers use of the web, therefore advertising, therefore, the need for people to design templates (and, websites… )
Those of you who would like to claim to never have had your learning influenced by others, those of you whose intelligence soars to the point that you are indeed a creator of the First Thought Ever, and thereby unaffected by other’s thinking, ( or templates…) need to get a grip. You are obviously insecure as far as the limits of your ability to keep up with the number of templates out there that may – gasp – actually – be useful. Get off your high horse and stop trying to impress others by slamming the people who actually are flattering you by trying to copy you. Good grief.
ramin
November 28th, 2010 1:56 pmtnx…
Jack
November 30th, 2010 2:16 amthanks a lot, great job !
jam
December 8th, 2010 6:37 amthanks ! great information !
Shravan
December 28th, 2010 11:26 pmI actually switched to opencart from wordpress ;)
sirisha
January 5th, 2011 6:27 amgreat collection
Rucks!
January 30th, 2011 3:12 pmMy online cosmetics boutique was a template initially. I have however tweaked it slightly to suit, but it works quite well don’t you think? modcosmetics.co.uk
hooowaaaa
February 6th, 2011 7:24 amgreat collection just for free..?? this is fucking awesome!! thx dude..
Joe
February 14th, 2011 12:59 pmThese are beautiful templates! I found this beautiful css template. someone might be interested. They also have many Free Templates on their website.
Goldeneagle
February 17th, 2011 4:23 pmI’m so new to this how do you get these templates to work my first time doing this an they are all great.
Danny
March 6th, 2011 8:03 pmAny really good store blogger templates for blog spot ? Anyone have any ideas?
Yvonne Lee
March 17th, 2011 8:28 pmhello anybody can help me how to get the stylesheet and template? I try to install the clothes store/ clothes online free theme at wordpress but having error message below
theme095 Stylesheet is missing.
Yvonne Lee
March 17th, 2011 8:40 pmAnybody can help to advice me how to get stylesheet and template for clothes store/clothes online free theme above? I try to install but prompt me error theme095 Stylesheet is missing.
Laura
March 24th, 2011 8:20 amI picked up two TROJANS from downloading and clicking around on the “Tool Shop” General Ecommerce Template…NOT COOL! I have always trusted Smashing Magazine to refer me to trusted sites, links, and downloads. Not feeling that trust anymore. Good luck to anyone who downloads these templates.
Smashing Media Customer Support
March 24th, 2011 2:20 pmUnfortunately, we can not check every link featured on our website. Some links date and become outdated or wrong after some time, and we always appreciate pointers to wrong URLs. Please have understanding that we can not check every link on the site every single day.
Gab
March 30th, 2011 9:12 amIve now downloaded 3 of these themes and none will load up onto wordpress – I am given a message that the stylesheet is missing from each one.
Any help here, or are they all useless?
Christinia Keating
April 18th, 2011 4:07 ami found this tool pls check it
Wiedz
April 20th, 2011 6:22 amThanks for the list dude!
It helps me a lot to do my project.
Keep writing..
Many more prestashop and wordpess free themes plz..
JAWAD
April 25th, 2011 11:18 pmrealy nice collection
icazari
May 11th, 2011 1:16 pmits free? compatibilty with version 1.3?
Simona
June 28th, 2011 6:21 amWowww thanks!
Martin
November 25th, 2011 6:27 amBig Thanks,
great Tamplats for my Shops…
i hop for more :D
atul
January 10th, 2012 2:07 amHi,
From where can I use free themes for ecommerce website , with deals and discount features.
Gerardo
February 22nd, 2012 9:37 amExcellent collection of templates for e-commerce, just what I was looking to optimize my online store project. Again thank you very much for the information of high quality for us. My shop Compras online for the thanks. Greetings.
Dipok
March 6th, 2012 6:05 amHi, thank you for the good work. This is really a good site and a lot of us would get a lot of help, specially, those who are the beginners. Some of us left some comments here that caught my eyes that are why I am leaving this note for them. If you think that you are a pro, you do not need anything from this site, then you should just leave quietly instead of making any noise. When you leave a disgraceful comment, you hurt nobody but only your-self. Because of your comment, now we all learned that you are a so called “small-minded-poor-jealous-fellow” who was not supposed to be here at all at the first place. Learn from your own mistakes if you have a little commonsense and any self-respect.
steve
March 15th, 2012 10:47 amthanks for this collection, very useful. also, I just learned from this comments section that web-designers are quite a catty bunch
Simon
April 2nd, 2012 1:31 pmhey, i’m looking to start a estore and been trying to download one of these pages to get me started bit just seems to go to adds and no more. has the Crafty WordPress Theme finnish? i’m looking to start sumthing on my site bagsforhighschool.com i have done it in bloggler for now to start getting google rated. but i want to start a store. HELP!
Earl
June 7th, 2012 8:15 pmPretty nice collection of themes…although some are decidedly average!
The eWAY Team
July 15th, 2012 4:41 pmThis page is a terrific resource; well done. Merchants ask our support team about cart design every day, so in future we’ll send them this link.
Tien Trinh
September 25th, 2012 6:24 amLove free stuff. Some of them are great!!
Taimoor
October 16th, 2012 3:07 amMost of the link above are now expired. Please update them.
Limo Hire
October 22nd, 2012 1:24 amThis is a great collection here – thanks will be sharing :)
Paul
December 4th, 2012 10:20 amI have free template for AbateCart. Any Idea how it can be added to the list?
Thanks