# [SmartStore.NET](http://www.smartstore.com/net/en)

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SmartStore.NET is a free, open source, full-featured e-commerce solution for companies of any size. It is web standards compliant and incorporates the newest Microsoft web technology stack.

**SmartStore.NET includes all essential features to create multilingual and multi-currency stores** targeting desktop or mobile devices and enabling SEO optimized rich product catalogs with support for an unlimited number of products and categories, variants, datasheets, ESD, discounts, coupons and many more.

A comprehensive set of tools for CRM & CMS, sales, marketing, payment & shipping handling among others makes SmartStore.NET a powerful all-in-one solution fulfilling all your needs... totally FREE!

**SmartStore.NET delivers a beautiful and configurable shop frontend out-of-the-box** built with a design approach on the highest level, including components like Twitter Bootstrap, Less Css and others. The innovative ShopBar, a powerful layered navigation, reviews & ratings, an optimized (one-page) checkout process... they all provide a perfect shopping experience to your buyers.

The state-of-the-art architecture of SmartStore.NET - with ASP.NET 4.5 + MVC 5, Entity Framework 6 and Domain Driven Design approach - makes it easy to extend, extremely flexible and essentially fun to work with ;-)

* **Website:** [http://www.smartstore.com/net](http://www.smartstore.com/net)
* **Community:** [http://community.smartstore.com](http://community.smartstore.com)


## Highlights

### Technology & Design

* State of the art architecture thanks to ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 5, Entity Framework 6 and Domain Driven Design
* Easy to extend and extremely flexible thanks to modular design
* Consistent and sophisticated use of modern components such as jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, LESS & more in the frontend and backend.
* Easy shop management thanks to modern and clean UI
* Out of the box shop design on the highest level
* Revolutionary Shopbar for the best shopping experience
* Point&Click Theme configuration

### Features

* Multi-Store support
* Unlimited number of products and categories
* (NEW) Product Bundles
* (NEW) RESTful WebApi
* Multi-language support
* 100% Mobile optimized
* Perfectly optimized for search engines
* Trusted Shops precertification
* 100% compliant with German jurisdiction
* Sales-, Customer- & Inventory-management
* Comprehensive CRM features
* Powerful Discount System
* Powerful layered navigation in the shop
* Numerous Payment and Shipping Providers and options
* Sophisticated Marketing & Promotion capabilities (Gift cards, Reward Points, discounts of any type and more)
* Reviews & Ratings
* CMS (Blog, Forum, custom pages & HTML content etc.)
* and many more...

## Project Status
SmartStore.NET V2 has been released on April 04. 2014. The highlights are:

* RESTful **WebApi**
* Highly optimized and **simplified product management**
* Product **Bundles**
* Considerably **faster app startup** and page processing
* New variant attribute type: **Linked Product**
* **Package upload** for plugins and themes
* Lightning **fast asynchronous Excel import** with progress indicators and detailed reports
* For developers: Code-based Entity Framework **database migrations**

##Try it online

We have set up a live online demo for you so you are able to test SmartStore.NET without local installation. Get a first impression and test all available features in the front- and in the backend. Please keep in mind that the backend demo is shared and other testers can modify data at the same time.

* [**Frontend**](http://frontend.smartstore.net/en) (User: demo, PWD: 1234)
* [**Backend**](http://backend.smartstore.net/en/login) (User: demo, PWD: 1234)

##How to install

* Download the latest stable release from the download tab and unzip it to your web folder
* Setup a website in IIS and point the file directory to your unzipped folder
* Fire up your browser and follow the installation instructions
* Enjoy ;-)

###System requirements

* IIS 7+
* ASP.NET 4.5
* ASP.NET MVC 5
* MS SQL Server 2008 Express (or higher) OR MS SQL Server Compact 4
* Full Trust


## License

SmartStore.NET is released under the [GPLv3 license](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt).
