Shopping Cart Wars - VirtueMart vs osCommerce

Many of our clients asked what exactly are the advantages of selecting VirtueMart over osCommerce cs (CRE Loaded, Zen Cart, osCMax) and Magento. Well, here are what we think:

1. Caching technique is much better with Joomla default cache or some other Joomla cache extensions.
2. Security is more advanced. Not like osCommerce cs that continue to use the old crack unsafe register_global ON.
3. Compatible with PHP 5 and MySQL 5 for a lot better performance and security. In case you are creating a new web shop, you would better produce with the one that is compatible with PHP 5 and MySQL 5 because PHP 4 and MySQL 4 is going to be out-of-date very soon. osCommerce, Zen Cart, CRE Loaded and osCMax are not suitable for PHP 5 and MySQL 5.
4. osCommerce cs claim the fact that they possess a large amount of web theme designs accessible to choose from. Well, it's however rather a fact. That's the key reason why we are here with the intention that as a minimum VirtueMart also has a number of template designs to pick from either.
5. There are still plenty of space for enhancements. Whilst osCommerce cs already got to the stalemate or maturity stage and little room for deeper enhancements, VirtueMart still has plenty of room for enhancements.
6. Support multi languages. Whilst osCommerce, Zen Cart, CRE Loaded and osCMax only support 3 languages (German, Spanish, English), Magento also encourages 3 languages (German, French, English), VirtueMart along with Joomla currently supportaround 60 language and they are nonetheless creating for other languages around the globe.
7. Integrated with Joomla CMS, means you may possess a shopping cart joined together with any other non-cart features like user forum, news portal, social networking, blogs, any kind of subscription service, ads management, auction site, event management, calendar, image gallery, image slideshow, flash gallery, flash slideshow, virtual classroom, real estate property, hotel reservation, stock market, event registration, wikipedia, etc.
8. You can make content material as much as you would like. A content can be an post with animated javascript and images, or a element inside an article, or a module in an article, or a static HTML pages, or dynamic HTML pages, or a flash inside article, etc etc.
9. Cart features are wonderful: Multiple vendor, item attributes, product specials, infinite products and categories, numerous item categories, flexible consumer fields, edit order, selling downloadable files, full payment and shipping modules including Google checkout or create your owns, confirmation email, transfer to Quickbooks, list or cart, different price per customer, etc etc.
10. SEF and SEO are more superior and free of charge, especially with sh404SEF. We found it significantly better compared to osCommerce paid SEO scripts. osCommerce cs are very limited in meta tags optimization while Joomla has a lot of extensions that can easily maximize your meta tags optimization.
11. Flexibility is very high when it comes to design and style or layout. You can easily set up any kind of module (cart module, producer module, foreign currency module, search module, flash module, image slideshow module, accordion, sliding, fading, application in module, module in application, etc) to any position you like. You can position a header on footer, footer on header, cart over header, header over cart, sliding, fading, tabs, etc. Position is confined only by your creative imagination and imagination.

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