Which Is The Better Open Source Ecommerce Solution? Joomla/virtuemart, Drupal/ubercart, Oscommerce?
August 16, 2009 under FAQ
I want to sell file downloads (software) which I believe rules out magento….
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The better one is the one that suits your needs most closely. As they are all open source, why not try them all for a week (in a testing envoironment, eg localhost) and see which one you handle the best.
Of that list, I prefer osCommerce as it is easy to recode, easy to give a theme too, easy to understand and has thousands of “contributions” (addons) available.
Stay away from osCommerce like the plague - the entire design is tabled and the code is mashed in with the layout. (IDK about the Alpha release, but it’s been in Alpha for 2 years without an RC so it shouldn’t be used in production).
Ubercart is a great choice (especially if you have quickbooks). It’s easy to set up, has a large user base and is built off of (IMHO) the best CMS out there.
I don’t know much about virtuemart but Drupal is my CMS of choice over Joomla any day.
Magento is definitely the frontrunner in the open source ecommerce market, but like you said there is no option for digital products yet. This is in their roadmap though, so you may want to take a look to see when it will be available.
Also, one you might not have heard of: Substruct. It’s built on Ruby on Rails and seems to be very well designed. Being built on an MVC framework really helps with the separation of design and code. Therefore: templating is much easier.