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Ecommerce-CodeIgniter-Bootstrap vs Ever Demand

Ecommerce-CodeIgniter-Bootstrap and Ever Demand are both marketplace platform software. Ecommerce-CodeIgniter-Bootstrap is open source under MIT, with 1.4k GitHub stars. Ever Demand is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 1.9k GitHub stars.

Which to pick

Pick Ecommerce-CodeIgniter-Bootstrap when
A developer wants a simple, readable PHP shop to adapt for a small store.
Pick Ever Demand when
A developer wants a reference for a delivery marketplace built with Angular and MongoDB.

Side by side

What it does

A PHP online store with multi-vendor, multi-language, virtual products, admin panel, blog and PayPal payments, built on a patched CodeIgniter 3.

An on-demand commerce platform for ordering and delivery, with shop, merchant, driver and admin apps.

Watch out

Runs on CodeIgniter 3 and Bootstrap 3, both long past their prime, with no releases.

No releases, demos are offline, and it runs on an older Angular and Ionic stack.

Ready for

Usable

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Self-hosted server and mobile app

Built with

PHP, CodeIgniter, Bootstrap and MySQL

TypeScript, Angular, Node.js and MongoDB

Source code

Open source, MIT (permissive)

Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.

How widely known

1.4k GitHub stars

1.9k GitHub stars

How established

Established: started 10 years ago, no tagged release yet.

Established: started 8 years ago, no tagged release yet.

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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.