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OS Payment Gateway and Shipping Comparison

// January 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Strategy

Comparing 4 popular Open Source E-Commerce solutions and their payment gateways and shipping modules.

Compare 4 Open Source e-Commerce Solutions

// January 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // 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.

Why go the Open Source route?

// September 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Strategy

Open Source is defined in Wikipedia as “Open source software (OSS) began as a marketing campaign for free software[1]. OSS can be defined as computer software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that meets theOpen Source Definition. This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open source software is the most prominent example of open sourcedevelopment and often compared to user generated content[2]. A report by Standish Group says that adoption of open source has caused a drop in revenue to the proprietary software industry by about $60 billion per year” 

Source: wikpedia  (more…)