OsCommerce vs. OpenCartIn Feburary 2016 06,

In Feburary 2016 06,
The osCommerce Online Merchant features a catalog front end and an administrative back end. This online shopping-cart software installs and updates automatically. OsCommerce features a customizable shopping-cart layout, password-secured administration area and secure SSL transactions. The program supports dynamic images, unlimited products and categories, multiple languages and currencies, and shippable as well as downloadable products. On the front end, osCommerce allows customers to view order history and status, create temporary or permanent shopping carts, search for products and review their orders. Unlike OpenCart, osCommerce allows back-end users to send newsletters to previous customers.
OpenCart Features
Like osCommerce, OpenCart features unlimited products and categories as well as unlimited manufacturers. Similarly, this shopping-cart program supports multiple languages, multiple currencies and user-customized templates. Other shared features include product reviews -- though OpenCart adds product ratings to the mix -- downloadable and shippable product support, multiple tax-rate compatibility, printable invoices and shipping rate calculation. OpenCart features not included with osCommerce include product recommendations for front-end users and sales reports for back-end users.
Add-ons
As open-source software, both osCommerce and OpenCart feature user- and developer-created extensions that add additional functionality. For osCommerce, these add-ons are free to download and add features as diverse as the ability to shop by price, create PDF-format invoices and work with German bank transfers. Some of OpenCart's extensions come at a cost while others are free. Free extensions include category filters, image zoom capabilities and e-commerce tracking. OsCommerce and OpenCart both have thriving user communities that constantly create add-ons, but each program is ready to use “out of the box.”
Availability
Both osCommerce and OpenCart are completely free to download and use. Users can download osCommerce, which is compatible with PHP 4 and above servers and MySQL 3 and above servers, in full-package and update-package forms at the program's official website. Likewise, OpenCart's official site offers the program for no-cost download. OpenCart works with PHP, MySQL, Curl and Fsock servers.
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