Comments on: Zen Cart vs osCommerce

By: Raine

Raine — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:39:21 +0000

Magento is nice, but unfortunately it is:
1. Resource intensive
2. Doesnt get good support (unless you pay)
3. Coding can be very daunting at first, hard to find which part doing what.

In any case tho, it is a cart worth checking out.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:35:27 +0000

Ok, old post… but i I am curious what you think now and what you are currently developing in the way of ecommerce platforms.. I have been experimenting with WordPress for smaller stores, but it lacks a great deal of functionality by comparison w/ Zen Cart.

By: Caty

Caty — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:44:34 +0000

If you are transferring from OsCommerce database, there is a script that can help you out. You can also check out the forum for some useful information on database transfer.

By: Scott Robinson

Scott Robinson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:50:42 +0000

Justa question… The company that I work for has hired someone to launch a zen cart online. We have all of our products with pricing in a sql table on a seperate database system. We are told that zen cart can not draw product names or pricing from another table/database. We now have to manually populate all of this data that has been populated over time in another system. Is our zen master not able or willing to pull data or is it actually not possible to pull from another database? I appreciate any insight that you can give.

By: Caty

Caty — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:51:34 +0000

Hi, to my opinion, I still very much prefer Zen Cart than OSCommerce as I have explained in the post above. You can refer to the Zen cart links above to learn to customize the template, the documentation provided on its’ website is very details and easy to understand. Since you are thinking of purchasing a ready template, it is even easier that you just upload it to your server, go straight to the admin section and customize everything from there.

All the best to you.

By: KCanada

KCanada — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:50:03 +0000

Hi there,
I’m a complete newbie and want to start my own online store. I was thinking of purchasing a ready template that is either Zen Cart or OSCommerce. I have no experience working with this type of stuff, but cannot afford to hire a web designer. I would also have to do all the content management myself.

Can you give me any advice on which cart to use? Any input and advice would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

By: Caty

Caty — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:57:10 +0000

Thanks for link. Will look into that. Usually it is up to the clients’ choice, majority of mine would prefer either osCommerce or Zen Cart. I would prefer to hand on to as many cart systems as possible, if I had the chance.

By: derick

derick — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:44:47 +0000

Just happen to pop by, you may want to try Magento as well. It is the latest craze. :p Easily 10 times better than the two you worked on.