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    help question Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    Hi everyone!

    My business partner and I have recently opened a yahoo store. I wanted to use Zen Cart but someone with a successful yahoo store convinced him otherwise sighting search engine placement as the biggest [priceless] advantage.

    I would love to use Zen Cart, but I need some solid reasons to switch. Other than the cost disadvantage of the yahoo store/transaction fee and yahoo's horrible interface, what are some of the things that Zen Cart exceeds in? What is something that Zen Cart lacks that the Yahoo store has?

    Thanks, I really appreciate it.

    -Brian

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    Default Re: Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    Bottom Line -

    Zen Cart is open source so that it can be what ever you want vs what is provided by YaHoo.

    It is fully your store with little restriction.
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    Default Re: Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    Quote Originally Posted by kobra View Post
    Bottom Line -

    Zen Cart is open source so that it can be what ever you want vs what is provided by YaHoo.

    It is fully your store with little restriction.
    True, but I was thinking of examples in terms of options and features. Considering my audience, the open source argument wouldn't get far. . .

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    Default Re: Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    Since most of us don't use yahoo store, it'd be great if you can list their features here so we can do a comparison for you.
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    Default Re: Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    Ok, here's a c & p from their features page:

    Store Design

    * Design a professional-looking site with our easy-to-use wizard
    * Support for third-party tools
    * Professional designer and developer network to help build your store*
    * Search engine-friendly pages

    Product Catalog

    * Manage up to 50,000 products for sale
    * Easily add products to your store with a step-by-step wizard
    * Upload an existing product database
    * Upload a spreadsheet with product details
    * Track customized product attributes

    Shopping Cart and Checkout

    * Single or multi-page checkout
    * Customizable page layout
    * Set up custom fields for order info
    * Automatically calculate tax and shipping
    * Progress indicator to orient customers
    * Gift wrapping options
    * Support for downloadable products
    * Shopping cart contents saved for up to 2 weeks
    * Support for CSS for a custom design

    Marketing

    * Search engine-friendly pages
    * Automatic submission to Yahoo!
    * Automatic submission to Google
    * Free Yahoo! search engine marketing plan**
    * Free Yahoo! Local listing
    * $50 credit for Google AdWords
    * 20% off Yahoo! Shopping listings
    * Free trial on Shopping.com-$50 value
    * $50 free traffic from Shopzilla
    * 1 month trial with Campaigner by Got (email marketing)

    Product Promotion

    * Up-sell and cross-sell during checkout
    * Coupons
    * Gift Certificates
    * Site search feature
    * Discount pricing
    * Volume pricing
    * Incremental feature pricing
    * Trackable links for affiliates
    * Product catalog XML can be read by shopping directories

    Order Processing

    * Easy interface to process orders
    * View new orders by email or online
    * View new orders by fax
    * Automatically email customers to announce order status changes
    * Print invoices and shipping labels
    * Real-time integration with other management, accounting, and inventory applications
    * Display inventory availability to customers

    Inventory Management

    * Receive inventory alerts when quantities are low
    * Manage inventory by color, size, and other variables
    * Integrate with an existing inventory system

    Shipping and Taxes

    * Use major carriers like UPS, FedEx, and USPS
    * Set shipping rates by weight, price, location, and more
    * Offer free shipping
    * Tax rates by country, state, and zip
    * Ship orders to international locations
    * UPS Online Tools
    * UPS WorldShip

    Application Integration

    * Export transaction information to QuickBooks
    * OrderMotion
    * UPS Online Tools
    * Chase Paymentech
    * Stone Edge Order Manager

    Reports and Statistics

    * 40 reports and graphs to show:
    * Sales
    * Page views
    * Customer navigation paths
    * Referring sites and keywords
    * Frequent searched topics
    * And more
    * Export your reports for extra analysis

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    Default Re: Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    Design a professional-looking site with our easy-to-use wizard
    -> I'm not sure how easy, but I rarely see and well designed yahoo store

    With ZC you have the power to build your very unique store.

    Manage up to 50,000 products for sale
    -> unlimited in ZC

    Search engine-friendly pages
    -> a weak point of ZC, the user friendly url is not well supported yet.

    All other things are, well, pretty much the same between the 2. If your customer need to build a store quick, then just start selling, personally I think Yahoo is a better choice. With ZC, you have more control over things, but you also have to spend more time at the beginning. You have to consider his/her type of product, time, budget. ZC may be free, but to make it look the way you want to may have to spend lots of time (and money) on it.

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    Default Re: Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    With ZC, you have more control over things, but you also have to spend more time at the beginning.
    I found the opposite is true. Yahoo is a BIG pita, whereas I got zen up and running with a few demo items in less than an hour.

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    Default Re: Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    If you already know zen cart, that is ^^. It took me several months to get to know ZC completely.
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    Default Re: Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    lol I been at ZC for YEARSSSSSSSSSSS and Im still finding new goodies..

    glad you got it setup, now you have all the ammo to take to your partner
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    Default Re: Zen Cart vs Yahoo Store

    Actually I was wrong when I say "completely", there are way too many other things I don't know yet.

    Anyhow, the main point here is that: if you think that you can build a better website for your client with ZC, at the same price, then tell him/her so.
    The is the MAIN advatage ^^, same cost, higher quality.

    PS: another strong point of yahoo store: yahoo is big, famous, it makes users feel safe when shopping there.

    Quote Originally Posted by Merlinpa1969 View Post
    lol I been at ZC for YEARSSSSSSSSSSS and Im still finding new goodies..

    glad you got it setup, now you have all the ammo to take to your partner
    I no longer provide installation support on forum for all my modules. However, if there are real bugs with the modules please feel free to contact me

 

 
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