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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Digital River

    Score3 out of 10
    N/ADigital River Global Commerce offers cloud commerce tools and services for selling digital and physical products across global online markets, handling taxes, regulations, payments, e-marketing and more.N/A

    Laravel PHP Framework

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ALaravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.N/A
    Pricing
    Digital RiverLaravel PHP Framework
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Digital RiverLaravel PHP Framework
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Digital RiverLaravel PHP Framework
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    Digital River
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Digital RiverLaravel PHP Framework
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Digital River and Laravel PHP Framework
    Feature
    Digital River
    5.6
    3 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    Ratings
    Product catalog & listings2.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product management2.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk product upload10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branding5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile storefront5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product variations7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website integration5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual customization5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    CMS9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Digital River and Laravel PHP Framework
    Feature
    Digital River
    7.4
    3 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    Abandoned cart recovery9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Checkout user experience5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Digital River and Laravel PHP Framework
    Feature
    Digital River
    5.0
    3 Ratings
    50% below category average
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    Ratings
    eCommerce security5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Digital River and Laravel PHP Framework
    Feature
    Digital River
    6.9
    3 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    Promotions & discounts9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Digital River and Laravel PHP Framework
    Feature
    Digital River
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    Ratings
    Multi-site management2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order processing9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Shipping10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom functionality9.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Digital RiverLaravel PHP Framework
    Small Businesses
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    CodeIgniter
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Symfony
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Digital RiverLaravel PHP Framework
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Digital RiverLaravel PHP Framework
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Digital River
    Well suited if you are wanting to implement a solution with minimal staff or resources to support a large project such as E-Commerce software delivery.
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    Open Source
    I would say that Laravel is not a suitable framework for high-frequency, high-volume, real-time interaction or processing millions of records in batch operations. It shines for standard database web applications (CRUD, Admin Panels, etc.) and is a fantastic multi-developer framework.
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    Pros
    Digital River
    • Digital River's email marketing arm has always been top notch. They are very connected with their customers, quick to alert us to any problems they are experiencing and respond if we bring something to their attention.
    • The Global Commerce platform has grown leaps and bounds in the last few years. Its great having a cloud based ecommerce platform that can be accessed securely from any computer in the world.
    • Worldwide payments continues to be a Digital River strong point. They are continually investigating and and doing the work necessary to new countries and locales to their platform.
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    Open Source
    • Laravel utilizes the best possible PHP standards and coding practices.
    • Laravel uses many widely-accepted community libraries and builds upon them, rather than re-inventing everything.
    • Laravel has many components available from the community and is extremely easy to build custom components for, either with custom code or by integrating existing third-party PHP libraries.
    • Laravel is flexible enough to power pretty much any kind of application I can imagine.
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    Cons
    Digital River
    • Their flexibility and customizability are lacking. Changes to our cart or store require a lot of lead time discussions and development time.
    • They have many strange UI implementations for things. One search bar is a wildcard match, while another is a string match. One setting might break your product, or be editable once, but you cannot change it after that one time.
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    • Laravel is updated regularly, which is great. However, in order to get the latest features, use the newest 3rd party libraries, have the most current security updates, and ensure that the newest features of PHP are usable, you have to continuously upgrade your Laravel application. This costs time and money, obviously, and if you don't stay on top of the updates you will quickly fall behind. This is the case with any open source software, but it needs to be considered for any team considering using Laravel or any other software.
    • Because of the size of the Laravel community, there are a LOT of 3rd party libraries. Some of these are great, some are less than great. Sometimes it's difficult to evaluate the quality of a library, making it difficult to trust many libraries. Developers need to be cautious and thoughtful when considering using new software.
    • Because of the rapid development of the Laravel framework, the size of the community, and the simplicity of being able to publish content online - it is very easy to find documentation, tutorials, or other "advice" that is not up to date, or that has outdated information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Digital River
    N/A I wasn't the person that implemented or recommended Digital River. But from an eCommerce standpoint I liked the organization overall and would recommend it.
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    Open Source
    Laravel PHP Framework has continued to exceed my expectations. It supported me in the development of a high quality and stable web application that is mission critical for the organization. I cannot imagine wanting to use any other tool for web development. Documentation, unit tests, and numerous integration options make using Laravel PHP Framework a natural choice.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Digital River
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    Open Source
    As I mentioned earlier Laravel PHP Framework has lot of in built feature as well as there is vast set of packages available to add the features in your application. It has very large community who can help when you feel stuck somewhere. This is why this rating is justified.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Digital River
    We evaluated our ability to expand internationally with our current e-commerce platform and decided we could get to market faster with Digital River
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    Open Source
    Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you if you have problems. Using Laravel, integration became easy with third-party libraries, but it was costly too.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Digital River
    • Definitely positive impact in local markets
    • Positive impact in email marketing
    • Some positive experience with tailoring it for our business objectives
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    • Positive: Our delivery time for PHP application is faster than usual.
    • Positive: Developers are happy and they write better code with their usual development tools. No tool-upgrade necessary.
    • Negative: Initial delivery took 6 months extra and had to rewrite project several times.
    Incentivized
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