Magento VS OS Commerce

OScommerce and Magento are opensource E-commerce platforms for managing online stores. Both are preferred by online entrepreneurs for setting up their web shopping cart store. Let us compare and find which one is better as both provide exceptional features:

• Shared web hosting is sufficient for OSCommerce site whereas dedicated server is required by Magento site for fast functioning.
• Both have ‘unlimited products’ feature and provide edit product option as well. However, products can only be edited In order only in Magento.
• ‘Multiple product images’ feature is available in Magento and absent in OSCommerce.
• ‘Product attributes’ available in both OSCommerce as well as Magento.
• OSCommerce and Magento support SSL – Secure Sockets Layer.
• ‘Search Engine Optimization Tools for Meta tags and URLs’ is absent in OSCommerce.
• PayPal is there in osCommerce and Magento. However, PayPal Pro is missing in OSCommerce.
• Both support multiple languages and multiple currencies.
• Single page checkout is offered by Magento and is not there in OSCommerce.
• ‘Spreadsheet database upload’ is there with Magento and not present in OSCommerce.
• Multiple Store support is provided by Magento.

OSCommerce and Magento provide equally good features and it is difficult to say which one is more superior. However, we can see that Magento provide more additional features as compared to that of OSCommerce.

There are certain limitations of Magento as well and the most unnoticeable is its slow speed. So depending upon the requirement and interest, one can opt for either OSCommerce or Magento as both are beneficial in establishing good online shopping cart store.