garyh Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 We have been *struggling* with Interchange for some time now and have thrown in the towel so to speak. Just to difficult to setup and get running. We have heard that OSC is a much better cart for various reasons. Would anyone with Interchange experience care to compair the two? We would certainily like to hear about your experiences. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 I have no significant experience with Interchange but I would advise you to grab either a daily snapshot (2.2-CVS) or the Milestone 1 release (MS1) and use the documentation at http://wiki.oscommerce.com to install it. Mattice "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikek Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 we have also been developing in interchange and have found it fraustrating to modify and configure. I am also on my first oscommerce install. oscommerce looks a lot better product that ic in the fact that it is european which should mean it is a lot easier to deal with euro customers. I am starting a dev install of oscommerce. i am very pleased with what i see so far.. Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet-engines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acronym B.O.Y. Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 I've played with both Interchange and osC, though didn't like Interchange much, so I dropped it quickly. Unfortunetly for me, neither support recurring billing, so I am using a home grown solution. I find osC to be a lot easier to modify, plus I prefer the layout of the default osC a lot more (not that I would ever run a store on defualt, I just like it a lot better than Interchange's). I also have found numerous modules for osC and not as many for Interchange, developer activity and such are important to me, I don't want to use something that will be deserted and forced to move else where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keysmediagroup Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Hmmm In my opinon Interchange is quite possibly the worst opensource cart available. If you know nothing about the structure then it is a nightmare. Now OSCommerce Cart on the other hand I feel has a weird file structure but none the less is not so elaborate that you can't figure it out. If you have the option I would choose OSCommerce.... My only downfall with using this cart is having a store set up to use USPS API shipping and Paypal as the only options for check out... The problem is the shipping cost will NOT transfer to paypal. And I'll be Darned if I can figure out why.... Good Luck JR I WILL master this thing yet!!! ------------------------- I hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikek Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 The thing i have gripes with in regards to interchange is that there is very little bolt in functionality. I have managed to install and configure several ic stores but have little luck in finding reliable hosting for the miriad of extensions that it needs to run properly with minimum memory usage. We are a week away from launching an interchange store but have had it reset three times by a badly supported web hosting company so i am now on the decision of spending several days on ic to then find it may go offline and loose client traffic or spend a bit longer and port my ic dev store to oscommerce and then have the stability of mysql/php/*nix. Since i started working in php last september, our sites have had an added level of functionality that i could never achieve by hacking perl. Having a store based on this technology is magnificent. Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet-engines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphon Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 My host has ic installed.... they also have OSC installed... I struggled with ic for a long time and gave up, NEVER got authorize.net to work or was able to get it customized at all.... my host had an older version of OSC so I downloaded and installed a newer one..... I had it up and running in like a quarter of the time I was messing with ic Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harald Ponce de Leon Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Would anyone with Interchange experience care to compair the two? We would certainily like to hear about your experiences. Do you think osCommerce community members will tell you to use Interchange? Do you think Interchange community members will tell you to use osCommerce? What I suggest to do is to install osCommerce and play around with it. The decision to use osCommerce or not will probably be concluded in 30 minutes, instead of days waiting for further replies to this thread. , osCommerce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 I am webmastering on two web sites. One with Interchange and one with OScommerce. Interchange is really simple to use - Upload and download data in exel, and other forms of info. With just the click of a button. But, and I must say But, it is really unstable. OSCommerce is really a little more tricky to set up, but it has tonnes of more functionality. IMO it is a far better cart hands down Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyh Posted April 8, 2003 Author Share Posted April 8, 2003 I am webmastering on two web sites.One with Interchange and one with OScommerce. Interchange is really simple to use - Upload and download data in exel, and other forms of info. With just the click of a button. But, and I must say But, it is really unstable. OSCommerce is really a little more tricky to set up, but it has tonnes of more functionality. IMO it is a far better cart hands down Dave I guess one can't ask for a better comparison when you use both. I didn't find IC easy to setup in Admin. I thought there were too many fields in *way* to many different places to setup. You needed a road map to remember where everything was. The big thing was that some things didn't seem to change, maybe that was inexperience on my part. I gathered that IC was unstable from the guys asking questions on the IC forum, that is why I started looking at osCom. (Plus the fact it looked like a server hog) You mention that osCom is "more tricky" to set up. Can you elaborate on that point a bit. As an added point in what I need in a cart is that I have a product with a single price but comes in several colors and sizes. I would like to have those choices on one "page". In other words, check off your choice of color and size and then be able to go to check out. Regards, Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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