3dcart vs Magento Open Source

3dcart

3dcart is well suited to getting a site up and running quickly with shopping cart capabilities. The merchant account set up was easy and there are inventory and shipping capabilities, as well. It is a very powerful tool for a small business without full time IT support on staff. While I did not have many products, it seemed like a merchant with a large inventory would have to spend a great deal of time on setting up the store

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Mark Madans

Owner

HOCOA North AtlantaConsumer Services, 1-10 employees

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Magento Open Source

It is definitely not a product for a small team looking for minimal hands-on development time. However, if you do have time/budget for a team of developers to develop and maintain a Magento storefront, then it gives you a lot of flexibility and customizability in terms of customer user experience.

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Matt Railey

Director of User Experience and Technology

TrueParallel, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

3dcart

7.0

Magento Open Source

7.4

Product catalog & listings

8.0

7.3

Product management

8.0

7.6

Branding

6.0

7.0

Mobile storefront

6.0

7.6

Product variations

8.0

7.3

Website integration

7.0

7.5

Visual customization

6.0

7.6

Bulk product upload

—

6.8

CMS

—

7.5

3dcart

9.0

Magento Open Source

6.9

Checkout user experience

9.0

7.2

Abandoned cart recovery

—

6.5

3dcart

8.0

Magento Open Source

6.9

eCommerce security

8.0

6.9

3dcart

7.5

Magento Open Source

7.2

Promotions & discounts

10.0

8.1

SEO

5.0

7.0

Personalized recommendations

—

6.3

3dcart

8.0

Magento Open Source

7.9

Custom functionality

8.0

8.4

Multi-site management

—

8.1

Order processing

—

8.4

Inventory management

—

7.1

Shipping

—

7.5

Pros

Strong shopping cart capabilities, with all types of promotions and discounting capabilities. Easy to set up the promotion and implement the campaign.
Integration with our email provider to be able to segment buyers based on timing of purchase.
Easy to use blog, was able to set up each post simply and create SEO/Meta tags associated with each post.
Products set up was easy and there are options for categories and classes to make setting up the store easy.
Easy to use for someone with no programming skills.

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Mark Madans

Owner

HOCOA North AtlantaConsumer Services, 1-10 employees

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Comes with APIs built-in
Lots of extensibility and customizability
Can handle a very large product catalog

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Matt Railey

Director of User Experience and Technology

TrueParallel, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Using images on the site and in the blog was a cumbersome process. The upload was easy enough, but finding and using the image after upload was terrible. The navigation of the images was difficult and there were no sort functions.
For a simple site without the need for a log in admin or shipping, these functions and capabilities were not easily hidden or removed. You needed to have a programmer go into the code to remove them. For a tool like 3dcart, it seemed to be something they could have taken care of with check boxes in the settings.
While expected, the templates available were very basic and simple. To enhance the look of your site, you will need a programmer or pay for the premium templates.

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Mark Madans

Owner

HOCOA North AtlantaConsumer Services, 1-10 employees

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Security patching causes long term development downtime
Not the quickest platform

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Joe Dingley

Senior Ecommerce Manager

The Jewel Hut, T.H. Baker, House of WatchesRetail, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

Not applicable - as a franchisee, the franchiser took over the web site and shopping cart capabilities, so I no longer need the tool. But I would recommend it.

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Mark Madans

Owner

HOCOA North AtlantaConsumer Services, 1-10 employees

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Magento Open Source10.0

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It's the dominant force in the SMB open source market. With the continued support of eBay/PayPal, Magento will continue to evolve and should be a market leader for some time.

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Bret Williams

E-Commerce Strategits

novusweb llcInternet, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Selected 3DCart based on price point and ease of getting started. Gave a two week free trial to make sure I could get it set up. Seemed easier than other options and had room to grow if I need more capabilities. It also integrated with QuckBooks, FaceBook and Auth.net which were all part of the package right from the start.

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Mark Madans

Owner

HOCOA North AtlantaConsumer Services, 1-10 employees

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In Drupal, you have to add on the commerce plugin in order to add on the features. OroCRM is the same way. Magento provides the out of the box functionality as opposed to building out additional plugins and more coding.

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Chris Coppenbarger

Web & Computer Programmer

FreelancerInternet, 1-10 employees

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