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Features and Comparison:

Comparing Ubercart with Other E-commerce Packages

We understand that Ãœbercart is not alone in the free e-commerce software world. Other viable alternatives have done quite well for themselves, including osCommerce and its derivatives and the e-commerce package for Drupal. Many people are interested in comparing shopping cart packages before settling on one, and we hope to provide just the kind of information they are looking for right here. Unfortunately, we simply haven't used everything out there!

For developers familiar with other product offerings, it may be enough to have a look at our features list or the Features Overview section in the User's Guide.

If there's enough demand and someone is available to create a comparison chart, we would happily display one here listing the various features expected in an e-commerce package and how different open source solutions implement those features. For the time being, feel free to ask questions in the forums.

Why use a Drupal solution?

One of the main advantages Ãœbercart and the e-commerce package have over other shopping cart solutions is that it is run on Drupal. This means you not only have the ability to run a store, but you can run a full scale community website utilizing any of the contributed modules or themes found at Drupal.org including blogs, forums, internationalization, and dozens of themes. For store owners, of particular interest to you will be the fact that Drupal is very search engine friendly. Several modules have been developed to enhance Drupal's out of the box search engine optimization. Your site is sure to rank well with Drupal!

Why not use the e-commerce package?

This page will be opened up to comments so that information in this section may be added to or corrected. We have not implemented Drupal's e-commerce in a live site, but we tested it enough and did enough development to decide that it was not for us. We have tried to make checkout and order administration, the two main things you'll be doing with your e-commerce site, easier to use and understand than the interfaces found in Drupal's e-commerce. This is up for debate, and we invite constructive criticism on how to make our user interfaces better! Currently this means we have reduced the amount of clicks it takes to checkout, provided an enhanced checkout for logged in users and anonymous checkout for others, and created display screens for orders that simply operate better. View the screenshots page to see some of these displays on a clean installation.

Our product system is also entirely different. We have implemented an attribute system more like the one found in osCommerce. We also don't require products of different types to all be different node types defined in separate modules. Differing product types may be created on the fly using product classes. You can read more about these key features in the Features Overview section of the User's Guide.

If anyone has other points of comparison they'd like to offer, either for or against Ãœbercart, feel free to add them in the comments section. We'll go through and clean up this page periodically to update the text with information from the comments and work your suggestions for improvement into the code!

Cheers,

Ryan