Although they have been in open source ecommerce world for not very long, oscommerce, zen-cart, and CRE loaded have been treated as the old guy, while Ubercart, magento and prestashop have become the new crop.
the desire of Ubercart, one of new generation open source shopping cart, is to move osCommerce sites to Drupal so as to take advantage of Drupal's strong content management and search engine optimization.
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what is unique about Ubercart is that its tight integration with Drupal allows you to seamlessly combine a fully-functional community, business or news Web site with e-commerce. This allows Ubercart store owners to sell members-only access to premium paid content, with automatic renewals and expiration of user access. The integration with Drupal also gives the option of using blogs, social networking, forums, newsletters or custom displays of content. It also allows the store owner to offer paid file downloads such as music, videos, e-books and software.
Other features of Ubercart include a flexible product attributes system that modify the price, SKU/model, and/or weight of items as the customer adds them to his or her cart; single page checkout, simple order processing screens, and automatic user account creation based on the user's e-mail address.
For customers, different views are possible for product display and organization by selected fields, page views and filters. "Userpoints" allows users to accumulate points for doing certain things on your Web site, such as moderating, commenting or posting notes. And leveraging the power of Drupal gives Ubercart excellent search engine optimization, content publishing capability and support for themes or templates.
For developers, Ubercart works with Drupal's Content Construction Kit, a suite of modules that allow products to be customized. Drupal's secure application framework and search engine optimization features are extended to Ubercart as well. There is a large community of developers, themes or templates and many consultants available. The program can be installed manually or via a Web-based installer.
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