osCommerce - Zen Cart - CRE Loaded ?
Which E-Commerce Solution Is best for your business?

So, OSCOMMERCE ? ZEN CART ? or CRE LOADED ? We feel that we have to help you in choosing the best e-commercesolution for your business.

If you don't have experience in working with online stores based on a CMS system and want to start with something simple, then choose OsCommerce. The OsCommerce Shop is the easier e-commerce ever seen and contains all the functions you anybody needs to sell online. By using osCommerce Templates from Tornado-Templates.com you get the design built in, so all you have to do is to pick up the template, install it and enter your list of products. Then START SELLING. The store is now completely ready for business. And all this in less than 30 minutes. OsCommerce is the most popular online store engine.

If you want a more flexibility management interface and a more advanced tool for online trade, but still easy to manage, then consider the Zen Cart system. It is a little smaller in weight and it has everything essential for online business. All changes to the system are done through the admin panel. Warning: Please check your Zen Cart System's Version and then choose the Zen Cart Templates that fits your Zen Cart System Version. You can download the Zen Cart engine here.

We think that CRELoaded is the most advanced trade portal with many instruments for promotion of your products. We recommend it to advanced users that used at least some OsCommerce system before. It comes super charged with many payment and shipping modules, affiliate systems, sales makers, subpages and many others - all in CRELoaded. You can run a large online store / mall perfectly. CRELoaded is the most comprehensive CMS for online trade with the most popular modules and functions fully implemented. This brings a theme changer system, so you can easily change your store theme. Get your CreLoaded Templates now and show your Online Shop to the internet users. You can download CRELoaded engine here.

Observations: OSCOMMERCE and CRELOADED are basically the same. The difference between them is that the oscomerce comes as a basic store and CRE Loaded comes ...SUPERCHARGED. It has all the most popular modules included. You can add modules to your OsCommerce and get it to fit your business needs.

Below are some comparation charts so you can compare each Online Store features by sections:

Package Content:

	OsCommerce 2.2	CRELoaded 6.2	ZenCart 1.2.x/1.3.x
Package	Engine (MS 2.2) with design, HTML, PSD, sample database	Theme, HTML, PSD, sample database	Theme, HTML, PSD, sample database
Skins system availability	not available (yes by installing components)	available	available
Design changing	Via changing of content displaying files or store resetting	With the help of skins system (via admin panel)	With the help of skins system (via admin panel)
Templates count	osCommerce Templates: 699	CRE Loaded Templates: 206	Zen Cart Templates: 97
Localization	There are 3 languages in standard package: English, German, and Spanish. There is a possibility of localization to other languages	There are 4 languages in standard package: English, German, Spanish and French (our templates are localized to English and German)	There is 1 language in standard package: English (our templates are localized to English). There is a possibility of localization to other languages (all presented at http://www.zencart.com/)

Information Boxes:

	OsCommerce 2.2	CRELoaded 6.2	ZenCart 1.2.x/1.3.x
Categories (list of products by categories)	available	available	available
Manufacturers (list of products by manufacturers)	available	available	available
What's New/ Latest Products/ New products (representation of one of the products recently added to catalog)	available	available	available
Quick Find / Search (quick search of products by keywords)	available	available	available
Information (box of links to sub pages)	available (links only to standard subpages)	available (links to standard subpages and to pages, added by the admin)	available (links only to standard subpages)
More Information (box of additional links to sub pages, is being replenished only in Zen)	not available	not available	available
Shopping cart (box representing shopping cart’s content)	available	available	available
Specials (representation of one of the products, which is introduced into catalog as special, special offer)	available	available	available
Reviews (representation of one of the products, on which a testimonial had been written)	available	available	available
Languages (box of localization switching)	available	available	available
Currencies (box of currencies switching)	available	available	available
Bestsellers (list of the most popular products)	available	available	available
Featured Products (representation of one of the products, selected by administrator)	not available	available	available
Tell a friend (box of informing of somebody about the store vie e-mail)	available	available	available
Notifications (box, in which a client can subscribe to getting information about the product)	available	available	available
Affiliates (information box for affiliates)	not available	available	not available
Articles (box of links to CRE articles (news))	not available	available	not available
Order History (list of client’s orders)	available	available	available
Banner (banner, added by a client )	not available (possible to add banner only under footer)	available (possible to add any amount)	available (possible to add any amount)
Downloads (box for displaying of link to purchased product)	not available	available	not available
Manufacturers Info (box of information about the manufacturer)	available	available	available
Donate (box for displaying of “Donate” banner)	not available	available	not available
FAQ (box for displaying of links – answers to frequently asked questions)	not available	available	not available
Google Ad (google adwords banner)	not available	available	not available
Pages (box of links to informational pages)	not available	available	available
Links (box of outer links )	not available	available	not available
Login Box (user’s registration box)	not available	available	not available
Who is online (box representing the quantity of users at the given moment)	not available	available	available
Whish List (box of links to products, introduced to the list of desired by the user)	not available	available	not available
EZPages (box of links to sub pages, created with the help of EZ module)	not available	not available	available
Music Genres (standard box for ZenCart, representing the list of music genres)	not available	not available	available
Shop by Price (box of selecting products by price)	not available	available	not available
Calendar (box with calendar)	not available	available	not available

Boxes Management:

OsCommerce 2.2

CRELoaded 6.2

ZenCart 1.2.x/1.3.x

Boxes management
(Info Boxes)

Only via direct code editing in column_right.php or column_left.php

Via the admin panel, it is possible to change the header, the color of header, position in left or right column.

Via the admin panel, it is possible to change position in left or right column

Payment Modules:

	OsCommerce 2.2	CRELoaded 6.2	ZenCart 1.2.x/1.3.x
Authorize.net	available	available	available
Authorize.net AIM	not available	not available	available
Credit Card (cc)	available	available	available
Cash on Delivery	available	available	available
iPayment	available	available	not available
Check	available	available	available
NOCHEX	available	available	not available
PayPal	available	available	available
2CheckOut	available	available	not available
PSiGate	available	available	not available
SecPay	available	available	not available
Freecharger	not available	not available	available
YourPay API	not available	not available	available (1.3.x only)
Credit Card (CCV)	not available	available	not available
Electronic Check	not available	available	not available
EFSnet	not available	available	not available
GeoTrust quick payments	not available	available	not available
PayMeNow	not available	available	not available
PayBox	not available	available	not available
PayJunction	not available	available	not available
PayPalExpressCheckout	not available	available	not available
QChex	not available	available	not available
PlugnPay	not available	available	not available
World pay	not available	available	not available
Quick Commerce Pro	not available	available	not available

Contributions: (additional modules developed by third party developers)

OsCommerce 2.2

CRELoaded 6.2

ZenCart 1.2.x/1.3.x

Contributions

Quantity: 3721
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Quantity: 209
Zen Cart Contributions

osCommerce - Zen Cart - CRE Loaded ? Which E-Commerce Solution Is best for your business?

osCommerce - Zen Cart - CRE Loaded ?
Which E-Commerce Solution Is best for your business?