Magento VS osCommerce
Magento and osCommerce, both e-commerce open-source shopping cart applications enable store owners to effortlessly manage online store. Let's take a closer look at both the applications:
Magento:
Another widely acclaimed open source e-commerce platform, Magento is bundled with an extensive list of powerful tools to create and manage an online store. Magento runs on MySQL/PHP/Apache platform and to create an online store, reliable web hosting services are required.
osCommerce:
Powered by a well established osCommerce community, osCommerce is a free to use open source online store management software. However, in order to run any osCommerce website, the web server is required to support MySQL database and PHP web scripting language.
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.
Comparison between Magento and osCommerce
An elaborated comparison between the two widely popular packages is given below:
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 Magento eCommerce
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 osCommerce
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Unlimited Products
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Yes
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Yes
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Edit Products
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Yes
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Yes
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Admin has power to Edit Products in Order
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Yes
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No
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Attributes
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Yes
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Yes
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Multiple Product Images
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Yes
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No
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Coupons
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Yes
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No
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Edit Customers
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Yes
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Yes
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Different Pricing per Customer Groups
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Yes
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No
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Supports SSL
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Yes
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Yes
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Spreadsheet Database Upload
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Yes
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No
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Graphic Template System
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Yes
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No
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SEO Tools for meta tags and URLs
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Yes
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No
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Live Shipping Quotes
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Yes
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Yes
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Google Checkout Pre-installed
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Yes
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No
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Content Management System for Informational Pages
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Yes
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No
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Paypal
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Yes
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Yes, but not IPN
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Paypal Pro
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Yes
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No
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Multi-Lingual Support
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Yes
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Yes
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Multi-Currency Support
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Yes
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Yes
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Multi-Store Support
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Yes
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No
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