Comments on: SEO Solutions for Open Source eCommerce Platforms

By: Alayna Peters

Alayna Peters — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:02:11 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I would love to hear more about your progress to date. Do you have any further opinion on whether osCommerce or Cartstore is the better platform, now that you have been using Cartstore for a while?

I am about to build an online gift store and I am very close to choosing osCommerce but I am worried about it’s SEO capabilities – do you know if these have improved for version 3.0 Alpha?

Thank you for your help!

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By: Jeff Ashby

Jeff Ashby — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:23:13 +0000

I’ll take a look at those. The Satchmo Project looks like it is developed with Python, which I have heard good and bad things about (generally good). I thought Magento was powerful, however the file structure was way too massive and had too many bugs.

By: Zach

Zach — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:01:20 +0000

Magento FTW. I have a developer friend in Cali who has done some incredible things with Magento and other CMS’s. The site he did ( and was mentioned on Smashing Magazine ) is : http://www.mankinddog.com

Also Satchmo Project is incredible extendable.

By: Jeff Ashby

Jeff Ashby — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:32:55 +0000

I have read up a little on PCI standards. You are allowed to store credit card information, just as long as there is enough encryption as well as SSL. From the shopping carts I have tried, I know osCommerce, Magento, Zen Cart, and CartStore all have the ability to store credit cards. I haven’t messed around with CartStore’s encryption too much yet, however they do have it and certain codes need to be inputted to access the card information.

You are right, there is a huge liability with storing cards. This is why it is important to delete the information as soon as the charge goes through. That is my plan at least. I know these carts also have abilities to actually email the information to you instead of storing on the server, however for me that seems a lot less secure. I definitely need to look into it more.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:19:34 +0000

I’d like to hear more about about options you’ve found that store credit card information. Which packages have that? I didn’t think that they did that. There’s a TON of liability that’s associated with storing credit card info that I thought only companies with security specialists had the resources to do. Especially if you want to comply with PCI standards…

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By: Jeff Ashby

Jeff Ashby — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:45:41 +0000

I did look briefly at PrestaShop, although it was later on and I heard it didn’t have capabilities to store credit card information. I am not sure if that is true, but I did hear good things about it on other fronts.

OSCommerce 3 does look promising, however it has been in development for about 2 years now, so who knows if it will ever get released?

I also didn’t mention WP-Commerce for WordPress. I would love to use WordPress, however I thought WP-Commerce lacked a lot of features. I also didn’t want to pay an extra $40 to try out the expanded features. I just wish there was some combination of a great ecommerce platform as a plugin for WordPress. That would be perfect.