oscommerce - anyone using?

[rampzoid]

hi
i was badly let down by my 'paid for' eshop provider over the xmas period - they changed the server without informing me & my worldpay credit card payments all messed up due to an incorrect callback url.

i now looking at oscommerce as a possible alternative - ok its free but thats not an issue - is anyone using it with worldpay? - any general comments on usability etc (or alternative suggestions) would be appreciated.

[OddDog]

hi,

i use oscom.

i am not a gret fan of either oscom or zencart.

I find them nasty to personalise, adn as soon as you mod it, better forget about upgrading.

I have approx 250 different low margin, low price articles in the catalogue.

it works for me. If it takes to much effort to mod for a particular idea i have, i just forget it, and keep selling.

changing templates is a pain. But it has a good support forum with lots of add ons.

[mblyman]

I have used os commerce and am currently using it but getting ready to move to a different ecommerce package (ofbiz from the apache group - it is free and opens source but more larger businesses)

I very much dislike oscommerce. Very difficult to work with

If you are looking for something small and easy to work with I prefer ecommercetemplates.com over oscommerce.

It isn't free but well worth the $100 for the license.

[oScFanat]

Hey Guys,

Oscommerce is really good shopping cart.

You can find alot of addon modules for it on the osCommerce website

[edited by: lorax at 6:57 pm (utc) on Jan. 12, 2008]
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[mblyman]

I disagree.

OsCommerce has been the hardest ecommerce system to work with that I have experienced. I'm sure there are worse but I know there are better. Yes there are lots of modules but overall it is not an easy system to work with.

I prefer others. Another great one that is coming out that seems promising is magento commerce...

[particleman]

I just put up my first oscommerce site in hopes to save time. Interesting experience to say the least. There are hundreds of pre written modules for OScommerce that do about anything you need (really). When I did my install, I did about 5-6 extra modules, paypal WPP, SEO mods, product attributes, SIDkiller, supertracker were the big ones. Honestly it was a pretty big headache installing them, none worked perfectly and debuging was a nightmare. The cart is solid for sure, but on the verge of bloated codewise. I consider myself advanced level in php and it was a chore digging through some of the code.

Some big drawbacks , OScommerce doesn't have any sort of template system out of the box. I ended up buying a template on one of the template sites and started with that (worked well). A few simple SEO requirements just aren't in it that should be. Page titles aren't dynamically written is the big one, Session ID gets put in the URL is another which is fixable. Another if you have alot of product attributes it becomes very tedious customizing these over and over. A simple copy or linked record would solve this. Product images aren't supported very well. One size with the image resized via html (looks bad). I ran out of effort or I would have tried some of the 3rd party product image solutions out there.

The good! Supports modules, such as payment, shipping, and others which is nice. Central configuration, intuitive back end interface. STS template system allows you to use nearly any web page to turn into OSC site (3rd party written).

Overall I'm happy with my choice to use it. There is a big learning curve to dig in and customize it, but in the end it was worth it.

[tssradio]

I like OSCommerce, have been using it for three years, have built a real business around it. It's easy to customize if you are ok with php and there is a wide ecosystem of freelancers (at getafreelancer and similar places) that are familiar with it.

If you are not a do-it-yourself'er you may be better off with something more packaged like monstercommerce or yahoo stores.

[edited by: tedster at 5:12 am (utc) on Jan. 23, 2008]