Zen Cart vs. OScommerce, which one is better?

[Site]

Which would you consider better?

OsCommerce or Zen Cart?


Reasons for and against?
Im ideally looking for a Search Engine Optimization friendly website.

[paul]

I think Zencart is easy to integrate and customize however to make a shopping cart search engine friendly you will need to find the Search Engine Optimization component available in the cart and optimize it and also do some cleaning work in coding. You should also develop keyword rich and Search Engine-friendly-Easy accessible content to make the cart Search Engine friendly.

[Ryan]

From the usability point of view, I would recommend Zen cart. It comes pre-installed with a whole bunch of addons which you would have to install yourself in OScommerce and there are hundreds more available on the Zen Cart website.

[Rock]

I'd vote for Zencart

The lack of a plug-in system in osCommerce makes add-ons difficult, since each add-on modifies the core application, making it really difficult for devs to modify the system as required. While Zencart allows easy modifications in the system without affecting it as whole, making it more favorable for the devs..

From the hosting point of view, osCommerce websites are seen to be more vulnerable to hackers than Zencart ones. Security vulnerabilities, including SQL injection via unchecked PHP code and loosing file or directory permissions that are required for functionality are common issue with osCommerce.

From Search Engine Optimization point of view, both of these applications boast SEO friendly characteristics. As Paul said earlier, "to make a shopping cart search engine friendly you will need to find the Search Engine Optimization component available in the cart and optimize it and also do some cleaning work in coding. You should also develop keyword rich and Search Engine-friendly-Easy accessible content to make the cart Search Engine friendly."

[Site]

Hi All,
Many thanks for your replies, I shall take all on board and take a look at Zen Cart.

[samuel29]

Hi,

What do you thin about Magento eCommerce?

Im ideally looking for a Search Engine Optimization friendly website.

It's a groundbreaking open source technology and the fastest growing eCommerce platform in the market. Magento development is also a great technology as point of view SEO which helps your custom Magento website to gain high rankings in Search Engines like Google. It gives you Auto generated Google Sitemap, Meta for your products and category pages and much more…

[Merrick]

And, it is good to know that EUK does support Magento Hosting on their Linux Hosting plans
You can refer the below link for more details:-
Magento Web Hosting | Web Hosting UK | Dedicated Servers | VPS Hosting

[myronn]

Hi all!

I was thinking about switching fm oscommerce to cre loaded. But now i think maybe moving to zen cart would be more reasonable?

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[paul]

Hi all!
I was thinking about switching fm oscommerce to cre loaded. But now i think maybe moving to zen cart would be more reasonable?

But why you want to switch over from OSC to Zencart, any specific reason? I personally recommended Zencart for first time users though.

[myronn]

well...it's based on oscommerce i'm already familiar with - so it's going to be pretty easy to get used to. But it's more advanced than oscommerce though, has more extended functiponality.

[myronn]

hi again! i've been surfing on the net today and found some service - cart2cart. they seem to automate switching from shopping cart to shopping cart. Maybe they can help me. Anyone tried it?

[madwayne]

I am on oscommerce fan, and have heavily modified some solutions.

Saying that i am looking to integrate my hosting so people can select which group of products they want pre installing and I cant find the information anywhere to modify this.

Basically i need the different options to use a different image set and a different database set.

Want to do this autmatically, at the point of order rather than to send 5-10 minutes installing manually every time.

If anyone can help with this please let me know, I am struggling like mad to get to where i want to be and whilst I dont like giving up but sometimes you have to say when your beat.

Thanks

Wayne