Calgary Web Designer Jenn Armour | Info Architecture + User Centric Web Design + Online Marketing + Social Media + Ideas

Compare 4 Open Source e-Commerce Solutions

// January 14th, 2009 // Strategy

Zen­Cart

• a. Standalone package
• b. Hard to customize
• c. Lot of modules in the box

OSCommerce

• a. Standalone package
• b. Hard to customize (more harder than Zen‐Cart)
• c. Lot of modules in the box

Ubercart

• a. User interface is awesome
• b. Simple
• c. More ready to go out of the box
• d. Immature(alpha)
• e. Drupal’s module

Drupal Ecommerce

• a. Bloated with functions
• b. More options for contributed modules
• c. Fantastic CMS
• d. Drupal’s module
• e. More stable than Ubercart
• f. More choices of products

-Zen Cart and OSCommerce are pretty nice too, but to change the layout is your worst nightmare.  
-Ubercart is simple but it’s still in alpha mode. 

The bottomline is Drupal Ecommerce outperform other solution where you can customize almost everything with its powerful CMS. After all, it’s one of the biggest module that makes drupal popular.