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Paypal vs Zen Cart vs OsCommerce Shopping Cart Software

If you've got fantastic products that will fly off of your shelves but don't know how to setup a ecommerce website, this is your lucky day.

There aren't many head to head comparisons between the three major ways you can create an online store. Did I mention, there are three major ways to create an online store?

eCommerce Shopping Carts / Features ZenCart and OsCommerce Paypal
Total Flexibility of Design Layout   Yes
Requirement for Design Modification HTML; PHP HTML
Hosting Owner Paypal
Additional Hosting Cost Yes  
Security Owner Responsible Paypal
Additional Security Cert Cost Yes  
Ideal for SKU Numbers 100+ 1-150
Support and Maintenance Experienced PHP User / Owner / HTML
Auto Product Tagging and Grouping Yes (CMS required or simple HTML work)
Product and Pricing Change Authorization Admin Paypal Account Owner
Main Usability Differences

Both ZenCart and OsCommerce allows product tagging, simple price changes, inventory depreciation, and more features t available in paypal.

However, for less than 100 items, and if quickbooks is used, ne of these features are necessary.

Also, these cart systems requires that all content and web design need to be inside of the system. Paypal does t swallow the website

Paypal is the simplest and most secure shopping cart management system. Recently, they even added universal button changes where one control panel detail can be changed and instances of that "buy w" or "add to cart" button will be automatically modified.

With Paypal, the ongoing cost of a 3rd party security certificate is unnecessary as all transactions happen on Paypals HTTPS servers.

The biggest difference is that both ZenCart and OsCommerce require all changes including price and design to be done within their software. Paypal does t. Paypal works with any simple html page.

If you have any questions or need help building out your online store and driving traffic to you, feel free to contact me at http://twitter.com/journik or 310 598 1606 - Bob Wan Qi Kim



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