Having confusion about selecting an e-commerce application? Are you thinking that which one will fulfill your business requirements – osCommerce or Magento! Both are open-source software. We all know that both are the good and stable e-commerce solution. But, it is very essential to select the appropriate one, so that we can achieve success in e-commerce.
osCommerce helps you to manage your online-store effectively and properly. It is easy to install but it is quite difficult task to customize and configure. The web server must support fast MySQL database and PHP web scripting language these are the basic requirement for running an osCommerce website.
Magento needs no introduction. An ample arrangement of the unlimited features of Magento are beneficial to eCommerce website. Magento provides you an extended and powerful implementation to create and manage your online store. MySQL/Apache/PHP are servers on which Magento can run. Magento application comes with commercial-level features, functionality and quality. You will have entire control on your Magento website.
Points that makes Magento superior than osCommerce:
* osCommerce is known for its easy installation. Magento is known for its customization, scalability and configuration.
* Easy installation is qualitative point of osCommerce, whereas good Scalability, configuration and customization are notable features of Magento.
* Features like CMS, not only includes all osCommerce’s features but in addition to that Magento also contain various other add-on modules.
* Back-end system of Magento is well organized and its structure is clean and clear therefore it is mostly appreciated as compared to osCommerce.
* osCommerce do not provide for multiple-store. But, Magento cart supports for it.
* Magento has default SEO tools for Meta tags and URLs, but osCommerce doesn’t.
* Magento application is highly appreciated by its users as compared to osCommerce because of its organized back-end system and clear structure.
* Magento uses Model View Controller (MVC) framework that makes development and extension manageable, on the other hand, osCommerce is not using MVC and is not modular, therefore, scalability and maintenance becomes an issue.
Magento software is highly layered and therefore it needs more time to learn and understand. For small business sites having limited products, osCommerce will be appropriate eCommerce solution. But large and complex business sites, having large number of products may go for Magento cart. Hence, you have to make choice between these two, keeping in mind, all your business requirements.
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