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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, Prestashop1, osCommerce2, Magento3, Zen Cart4, CubeCart5, and CRE Loaded6, 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 Link

Crafty WordPress Theme7 | Demo8 | Download9

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3. osCommerce Templates Link

Cosmetics Store11 | Download12

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Computer Store14 | Download15

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4. Magento Templates Link

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Electronics Store 318 | Download from eCommerce-Themes19

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5. Zen Cart Templates Link

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Acadame22 | Download from ichoze.net23

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Clean Blue
A collection of free CubeCart 3 Skins. More free Cubecart skins25.

7. CRE Loaded Templates Link

Electronics Store26 | Download27

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8. General E-Commerce Templates Link

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.

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Clothes Collection31 | Download32

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Gadgets Template34 | Download35 (valid HTML)

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Online Movie Store37 | Download38 (valid HTML)

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Books Online40 | Download41 (valid HTML)

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Beauty Company43 | Download44 (valid HTML)

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Clothes Store46 | Download47

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Hardware Store49 | Download50

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Online Store52 | Download53

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Footnotes Link

  1. 1 http://www.prestashop.com/
  2. 2 http://www.oscommerce.com/
  3. 3 http://www.magentocommerce.com/
  4. 4 http://www.zencart.com/
  5. 5 http://www.cubecart.com/
  6. 6 http://www.creloaded.com/
  7. 7 http://www.thekingcart.com/2008/10/02/crafty-cart-free-wordpress-ecommerce-plugin-theme/
  8. 8 http://demo.billionstudio.com/?wptheme=Crafty%20Cart
  9. 9 http://www.thekingcart.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=1
  10. 10 http://www.thekingcart.com/2008/10/02/crafty-cart-free-wordpress-ecommerce-plugin-theme/
  11. 11 http://www.websitetemplates.bz/free_templates/675.html
  12. 12 http://www.websitetemplates.bz/free_download.html?action=get_link&n=675
  13. 13 http://www.websitetemplates.bz/free_templates/675.html
  14. 14 http://www.freetemplatesite.com/
  15. 15 http://www.freetemplatesite.com/sample/sample_osc.zip
  16. 16 http://www.freetemplatesite.com/
  17. 17 http://www.templatemonster.com/free-templates.php
  18. 18 http://ecommerce-themes.com/magento-themes/electronics-store-11.html
  19. 19 http://ecommerce-themes.com/magento-themes/electronics-store-11.html
  20. 20 http://ecommerce-themes.com/magento-themes/electronics-store-11.html
  21. 21 http://www.templatemonster.com/free-templates.php
  22. 22 http://zen-cart-templates.ichoze.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65&products_id=182
  23. 23 http://zen-cart-templates.ichoze.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65&products_id=182
  24. 24 http://zen-cart-templates.ichoze.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65&products_id=182
  25. 25 http://www.cutecrab.co.uk/free-cubecart-skins.shtml
  26. 26 http://www.freetemplatesite.com/
  27. 27 http://www.freetemplatesite.com/sample/sample_creloaded.zip
  28. 28 http://www.freetemplatesite.com/
  29. 29 http://csscreme.com/freecsstemplate/pet_shop/
  30. 30 http://csscreme.com/freecsstemplate/auto_parts/
  31. 31 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2508
  32. 32 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/download.php?template=clothesfashion
  33. 33 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2508
  34. 34 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2936
  35. 35 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/download.php?template=gadgets
  36. 36 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2936
  37. 37 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2209
  38. 38 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/download.php?template=onlinemoviestore
  39. 39 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2209
  40. 40 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2268
  41. 41 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/download.php?template=booksonline
  42. 42 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2268
  43. 43 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2320
  44. 44 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/download.php?template=beautycompany
  45. 45 http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2320
  46. 46 http://allfreetemplates.info/template_details.php?id=86
  47. 47 http://allfreetemplates.info/out.php?f=1&p=50&u=http://allfreetemplates.info/template_get.php?id=86
  48. 48 http://allfreetemplates.info/template_details.php?id=86
  49. 49 http://allfreetemplates.info/template_details.php?id=85
  50. 50 http://allfreetemplates.info/out.php?f=1&p=50&u=http://allfreetemplates.info/template_get.php?id=85
  51. 51 http://allfreetemplates.info/template_details.php?id=85
  52. 52 http://allfreetemplates.info/template_details.php?id=84
  53. 53 http://allfreetemplates.info/template_get.php?id=84
  54. 54 http://allfreetemplates.info/template_details.php?id=84
  55. 55 /2008/12/01/100-free-high-quality-xhtmlcss-templates/
  56. 56 /2007/02/14/free-design-templates/
  57. 57 /2007/01/12/free-css-layouts-and-templates/
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  1. 1

    Shir

    January 25, 2009 8:04 pm

    This is beautiful THANK YOU !

    -1
  2. 2

    Brent Riggs

    January 25, 2009 8:06 pm

    As 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.

    -15
  3. 3

    DKumar M.

    January 25, 2009 8:19 pm

    Big 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.

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  4. 4

    ImagiumWeb

    January 25, 2009 8:28 pm

    I’ve looked for free Magento cart templates but didn’t see some of the ones posted. Thanks!

    -1
  5. 5

    Chris Wallace

    January 25, 2009 8:30 pm

    I 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.

    -6
  6. 6

    Jeff

    January 25, 2009 8:36 pm

    Chris, care to share insight as to why they fail? Is the failure solely the templates, the business model, both?

    1
  7. 7

    shel

    January 25, 2009 9:10 pm

    high quality?

    riiiight

    -2
  8. 8

    Deep Ganatra

    January 25, 2009 9:32 pm

    Smashing 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

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  9. 9

    ThemeLib

    January 25, 2009 10:21 pm

    Nice!

    -1
  10. 10

    Noam

    January 25, 2009 11:09 pm

    Beautiful designs!
    Thanks, That’s really great!

    -5
  11. 11

    Andrei Gonzales

    January 25, 2009 11:48 pm

    Oh wow… these are Template Monster-quality.

    In other words: worthless.

    -3
  12. 12

    Pradeep

    January 25, 2009 11:51 pm

    Good post..!!!

    Thanks for sharing free stuff…!!!
    I got a e-commerce project recently..
    these are my inspirations…
    Thanks…

    -3
  13. 13

    Juliet van Ree

    January 26, 2009 12:01 am

    Usually 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

    2
  14. 14

    Ash

    January 26, 2009 12:05 am

    I 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.

    -2
  15. 15

    Amir

    January 26, 2009 12:07 am

    Prestashop is da best opensource ecommerce solution so far…

    -2
  16. 16

    dvb

    January 26, 2009 12:11 am

    Personally 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!:-)

    -1
  17. 17

    Mike

    January 26, 2009 12:19 am

    what a sh… all look templatemonster-like and isn’t beautiful at all. Dissapointed.

    -4
  18. 18

    Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz

    January 26, 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.

    3
  19. 19

    Jakob Løkke Madsen

    January 26, 2009 12:46 am

    I 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?

    -2
  20. 20

    Matt

    January 26, 2009 12:58 am

    this 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.

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