OsCommerce VS Miva

prefer which?

[TheWebographer]

I have been playing with the OsCommerce shopping cart and with Miva. I was wondering if anyone here has had experience with either or both carts and would be willing to share pros/cons.

How easy is it to set up OsCommerce with payment gateways to accept the major credit cards?

[lorax]

OSCommerce is a free cart - very robust and can easily implement CC processors. OSCommerce is a PHP cart and can be customized but you'd better be more than a novice PHP programmer if you're going to play with the code as it is rather complex.

MIVA is a pay-for-license cart. Also very robust with easy implementation of CC processing. Two complaints I've heard about MIVA is that it's not the most intuitive GUI (Admin side) and it tends to be slow.

Both have community support forums and you can get additional modules and help with modifications.

[jatar_k]

nice summary lorax, I have only messed with osCommerce a little bit but have used MIVA many times.

the one thing i know about MIVA is there are concerns about how spiderable the urls are. There are tricks such as not showing the store code that can help.

[lorax]

>> there are concerns about how spiderable the urls are

There's a thread on here somewhere in which someone had a mod for MIVA that would make the URLS more SE friendly. I can't remember but I think OSCommerce will have the same problem but it can be dealt with using .htaccess

[TheWebographer]

Well I know PHP like the back of my hand. Or at least I would like to think I do. MySQL too.

I spent the day playing with OsCommerce. It is pretty easy to configure, but your right: you had better know PHP to do it well.