Magento VS Oscommerce

Oscommerce and magento, both are useful e-commerce applications used for building shopping carts. Oscommerce was launched before Magento. Let’s see which one scores better.

Magento is an application which receives regular updates while Oscommerce does not. Some argue that Oscommerce is easier to edit and Magento is easy to install if one knows how to do it properly. Magento is a highly customizable e-commerce platform. PSD to Magento Conversion and Magento Development Services have highly become popular in these days of competitive era.

Both of them have the necessary admin features like easy backup and restore options for database, packaging lists from the order screen, multilingual and multiple currency support. Magento does not have support for static and dynamic banners while Oscommerce has.

Oscommerce does not have features like multiple store set up, recently viewed products, recently compared items, multi – tier pricing for quantity discounts, auto generated site map, google site map, product zoom-in capability, product listing in grid format and cross sells on product pages. Magento does have these brilliant features. Oscommerce have some useful features like control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase and Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters.

Some argue that Oscommerce does not have a good back-end while magento has a brilliant back end interface.

To run any Oscommerce website the web server should support the powerful PHP web scripting language and fast MySQL database. Magento runs on the Apache/MySQL/PHP platform and to create an online store with it one needs reliable web hosting services.

Magento has many add-on modules within the rest of new and important capabilities. For instance, it includes coupons, order editing, SEO urls and meta tags, abandoned shopping cart reporting, product comparisons, editable order emails, shipping estimator in shopping cart without the need to login, and much more. However, Magento runs fairly slow, is heavily layered and has overly complicated coding style and thousands of files requires a lot of time to learn and do customizations. Magento shopping carts have become the favourite of online store owners around the world.