3dcart vs nopCommerce

3dcart

3dcart works well for small to medium size businesses that want to take care of their own website and product uploads and have the time to stay on top of inventory management. It does not work as well for a business who wants to just "turn it on" and forget about it unless they are able to integrate their POS system with 3dcart to manage inventory.

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Tracy Beers

Owner

Snowsports Marketing GroupMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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nopCommerce

If you're looking for a small or medium size eCommerce portal, nopCommerce is the best framework. 1. Cost = open sourced framework. You will just simply bypass the application design and development process, but you will have to code to do whatever you want to do for your business needs. It will save you a lot of time and money.2. Technical Architecture = It was created with the best application design and architecture. If you are not into eCommerce, but want to understand EntityFrame code first and domain architecture, Dependency Injection,..etc, nopCommerce is the one.3. I'm sure your business users will ask for the features that are already included with nopCommerce.

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Christopher Thant

Technical Lead

Teromac Technologies IncFood Production, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

3dcart

7.3

nopCommerce

7.8

Product catalog & listings

8.0

8.4

Product management

8.0

7.8

Bulk product upload

10.0

8.0

Branding

7.0

8.0

Mobile storefront

7.0

8.4

Product variations

8.0

7.6

Website integration

5.0

7.6

Visual customization

8.0

7.4

CMS

5.0

7.1

3dcart

8.0

nopCommerce

7.5

Checkout user experience

8.0

7.8

Abandoned cart recovery

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7.2

3dcart

9.0

nopCommerce

8.4

eCommerce security

9.0

8.4

3dcart

8.0

nopCommerce

7.8

Promotions & discounts

8.0

8.1

Personalized recommendations

7.0

7.4

SEO

9.0

7.8

3dcart

6.8

nopCommerce

7.6

Order processing

8.0

7.8

Inventory management

5.0

7.6

Shipping

7.0

8.1

Custom functionality

7.0

7.2

Multi-site management

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7.6

Pros

SEO - 3dcart is built in such a way that even if you do no SEO work at all, as long as you use the meta description wizard on each page or product you wind up still searching pretty well in Google.
Product uploads - Product uploads are easy to do with 3dcart's .csv import/export feature. No need to struggle with messy simple and variable uploads like on WooCommerce, 3dcart takes the guesswork and hassle out of uploading different product types.
Media uploads - Media uploads are quick and simple and the uploader always works.

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Tracy Beers

Owner

Snowsports Marketing GroupMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Customization: settings, plugins and open-source
Up to date
User-friendly interface and administration
Growing community
Exhaustive documentation

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Cédric Thiry

Business Analyst & Integrator

AgiluxInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Cons

3dcart does not connect to many of the POS systems my clients use so we need to manually update inventory daily/weekly.
There are many modules available to do many different things, but it makes you feel like you are being tickled and died to death to get the site to do exactly what you want. Also can be confusing if you don't know what you actually need.
It's a little difficult/confusing to upload products with multiple variations - ie: color and size - especially if there are multiples colors and multiple sizes.

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Tracy Beers

Owner

Snowsports Marketing GroupMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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More community templates would be great.
Some of the pricing can be a bit tricky, especially configured items... there is a likelihood of mispriced items with the current structure

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Brad Ranks

Director of Technology

MeMD, IncHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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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Support

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nopCommerce10.0

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I have asked numerous questions and the team treats my random questions as if they are critical to the continued success of their product. They really take each users' questions to heart and strive to solve them. I cannot commend them enough on how fast they respond to questions as well as the follow-through given to things thay may or may not even be a part of their platform.

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Brad Ranks

Director of Technology

MeMD, IncHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Implementation

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nopCommerce8.0

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Go for a plugin based development if you would like to extend nopCommerce. This approach will make it easier for you to upgrade the software.

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Anup Kumar

Director - Customer Experience & Results, Co Founder

Leverage Consulting Pvt. Ltd.Retail, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I found 3dcart to be the most cost effective and easiest to use for my smaller to medium sized business clients.

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Tracy Beers

Owner

Snowsports Marketing GroupMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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I have used a ton of other website CMS and Shopping carts out there and I think that nopCommerce has a leg up on a lot of them since they are very proactive in their desire to maintain a current structure. As an example, they are one of the first to offer AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), one of the latest standards in mobile first and mobile speed optimizations. This is not only great for the end users from a usability perspective, but awesome for SEO and rankings as well. The developers take pride in their work and are EXTREMELY responsive to questions. I love their team over there.

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Brad Ranks

Director of Technology

MeMD, IncHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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