: Open Source Shopping Cart Software I've come into a bit of an issue lately regarding shopping cart software, and I would like some recommendations. I have been an OsCommerce developer for years

@Kevin317

I'm actually trying to find a good shopping cart myself, although with limited success so far. I heard mixed opinions about OpenCart and PrestaShop, and I personally tried the first. I didn't like it much, as I found it very rough and poorly documented. I wanted to implement a plugin and all the information I could get was "copy from a similar one", which any good developer would recognize as the worst possible way of doing things (coding without understanding, also called "programming by coincidence"). Not to mention some CSRF vulnerabilities.

PrestaShop, based on what I read, has different issues, such as very strict templating rules, lack of features (most of which are supplied by expensive plugins) and some annoying incompatibilities. I haven't tried it yet, though.

I found two articles about the two carts, which highlight a not-so-brilliant experience with both:


Should We Use OpenCart?
Should We Use PrestaShop?


They are from 2010, therefore things may have improved since the day they were written, but, from my experience with OC, they are still (and unfortunately) quite actual.

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@Chiappetta492

Check out PrestaShop, it's also an opensource and free e-commerce solution. Can't really point advantages/disadvantages though, as I've got no basis for comparison.

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@Merenda212

Why not osCmax since it's derived from osCommerce; what you're familiar with?

If not, then Zen Cart.

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@Kaufman445

OpenCart is opensource & free.

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