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Should I Convert My Oscommerce Website To Magento?
What Are The Advantages of Magento Over Oscommerce?
What Things Should I Take Into Consideration Before Upgrading?
Oscommerce To Magento Conversion Programming Upgrade Services
Should I Convert My Oscommerce Website To Magento?
The new E-commerce package Magento is set to take the open source E-commerce community by storm. They have just released version 1.0 which means they have come out of beta testing. Magento takes the best things from Oscommerce such as being open source, easy to modify, and having a strong community, but then takes these to the next level of sophistication. In this article we will discuss some considerations on whether upgrading to Magento is appropriate for your website or not. It really depends upon how much you have customized your Oscommerce store.
What Are The Advantages of Magento Over Oscommerce?
Magento is superior to Oscommerce in the useful features it has, programming structure, and frequency of project code updates. First off, the software is built to be easy to upgrade, so even if you have a web store and say a security update comes out, you can update it in just a few minutes without going through 10000's of lines of code.
The feature set for Magento includes not only all of the features of Oscommerce, but also many of the add-on modules that people commonly request for Oscommerce. For example, it includes coupons, order editing, SEO urls and meta tags, abandoned shopping cart reporting, product comparisons, editable order emails, shipping estimator in shopping cart without the need to login, and much more. You can view their list of features by clicking here: feature list.
What Things Should I Take Into Consideration Before Upgrading?
Before upgrading your website to Magento by migrating from Oscommerce, it is important to know what customizations you have done to your Oscommerce website, and compare that with the Magento feature list to see if anything you have done is missing from Magento. Then if there are anything missing, put this into your quote request that you send to your web developer. The main process for converting from an Oscommerce to Magento website would include: 1. Modify Magento with any customizations you need. 2. Apply your design template to Magento. 3. Export your customer data and order data from Oscommerce to Magento. Another concern is customers not having the same customer logins when you go to Magento. Your web developer can export the same customer logins that they used to have from your Oscommerce store.
The web hosting cost are significant to host Magento and get decent browsing speed. You need a semi-dedicated server which runs about $100/month.
Oscommerce To Magento Conversion Programming Upgrade Services
If you have decided to go ahead and upgrade your Oscommerce store, we would be happy to help in providing reliable and efficient development services. We have years of experience with Oscommerce and can ably handle the upgrade to Magento. We will first develop your Magento upgraded store on a test server so that you can make sure everything is running the way you want before you make the switchover to using Magento.
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