Drupal E-commerce or Zen Cart

Discussion in 'Drupal' started by adpk77, Aug 22, 2008.

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    I have currently setup a site using zen cart v1.3.8 however i am now considering on using drupal.

    The reasons are in zen cart, the template system does not separate content from presentation. A lot of functions are coded within the template files. This may change in next version though for zen cart. I heard SEO in drupal is far superior.

    Joomla is a good CMS but i i read reviews on how virtuemart for joomla 1.5 has bugs. Is the drupal e-commerce system very stable?
     
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  2. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    You want Magento. http://www.magentocommerce.com/ it smokes them both.

    I was also successful in dumping an entire zencart site into magento using the oscommerce migration tool. I had to fix a few things but it saved me several hours.

    hope that helps,
    Nigel
     
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    I have not used either, what are the benefits of magento over drupal?
    SEO? Themes?
     
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    Yes, magento has proper markup, proper separation of design from function, etc. It is a highly professional application.

    Here are a few examples.
    http://www.manjunk.com/
    http://www.therecycledretriever.com/store/

    magento is nothing like oscommerce, zencart, etc.
    It does have a bit of a learning curve, and it is fairly server intensive. It helps to have someone on board who knows their programming.

    Nigel
     
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