3960AD Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I'm thinking about using osCommerce for my company and I was wondering, what would you all in the Forum say are some of the negatives associated with osCommerce? I know there are tons of positives.....but any negatives? 3960AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanf Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 This is my first shop and first time using osc and I love it. So far I have seen no negitives at all. Its fast, easy to mod (if you know some code) and best of all FREE! Use it, you wont be sorry. If I was crafty, this would be a funny signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agiftcodotcom Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 The only time I think there would be a negative is when your skill level does not allow you to do something with OSC. The reason I say it that way is because it appears (to me) that OSC is pretty much limitless as long as you have the coding ability to make something happen. Where some people mind find fault, others might 'whip-out' a quick code to fix that fault. So, basically the fault with OSC would probably reside within the particular store owner. Hope that makes sense. Contributions I used : Updated 06-13-04 23:42 ---------------- Vote on My Graphis Poll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryK Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I think osC would be much better if data encryption was standard in the program, rather than via installation of contributions such as the GPG module. (I'm using that contrib, but my web hosts made some changes to it to avoid creation of temp files along the way, which I understand could be vulnerable to hack attacks.) The 'stock' method of handling credit card security through osC is to split the cc number -- and store half of it on the server, Emailing the other half to the shop owner. This is not sufficient under most merchant agreements these days. Other than that, I think osC is an incredibly feature-rich program with almost unlimited possibilities. It all depends on how much effort you're willing to put into it. HTH, Terry Terry Kluytmans Contribs Installed: Purchase Without Account (PWA); Big Images, Product Availability, Description in Product Listing, Graphical Infobox, Header Tags Controller, Login Box, Option Type Feature, plus many layout changes & other mods of my own, like: Add order total to checkout_shipment Add order total to checkout_payment Add radio buttons at checkout_shipping (for backorder options, etc.) Duplicate Table Rate Shipping Module Better Product Review Flow * If at first you don't succeed, find out if there's a prize for the loser. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3960AD Posted June 7, 2004 Author Share Posted June 7, 2004 Thanks guys.....for the information.... I wonder how effective it would be if the system got tons of customers.....or I guess its all dependent on other technologies (ex. server, ..etc..)... 3960AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I'm wondering the same question. It's great overall.. my question is in regards to seo...this is where i'm not so sure because i've heard it has pretty fatty code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Evans Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I'm wondering the same question. It's great overall.. my question is in regards to seo...this is where i'm not so sure because i've heard it has pretty fatty code. That has nothing to do with how well it is indexed by search engines. You should find yourself a new set of programmers ;) BTW... http://www.oscommerce.info/kb/osCommerce/Tips_and_Tricks/194 Mark Evans osCommerce Monkey & Lead Guitarist for "Sparky + the Monkeys" (Album on sale in all good record shops) --------------------------------------- Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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