ZenCart vs Drupal

[mathon]

Hello,

i want to use ZenCart for a company project. But now im facing the challenge to convince my project manager to use ZenCart instead of Drupal and that is not so easy... ;)

Is there any resource available where the advantages of ZenCart are outlined over another tool like Drupal? or what are u thinking why it is better...?

matti

[mathon]

Regarding the kind of project, i have to develop a webshop for electronic items...

[scottb]

Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS) and far as I know there are no native e-commerce solutions to Drupal. They are all third party add ons and you have to worry about making the databases sync by a bridge.

Zen-Cart is a shopping cart.

Joomla CMS has an OSCommerce component that works great if you like OSC.

If you are building a shopping cart only - Zen is the answer.

[Merlinpa1969]

Hey Scott,

other than the forum,
this entire site is built on zen cart.

so it can handle anything you want to throw at it

[scottb]

Zen-Cart can operate as a CMS?

That is nice to know. I build most CMS sites with Joomla. It would be nice to have a shopping cart that could function that way.

[mathon]

Hmm.. but also Drupal offers an ecommerce tool

http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce

or did u mean something else?

matti

[Kim]

YES! Zen Cart can function as a basic Content Management system using the EZ Pages functionality that is built-in. Then you have the Shopping cart already fully integrated and don't have to 3rd party add-ons that may not do what you need.

[mathon]

Using the EZ Pages?

I have to creat a web shop for electronic items, a content management system is used to administer several different content, right?

[Merlinpa1969]

Mathon,
ezpages are bare pages that you create to do what you want,
and they are already a base part f Zen Cart,

look st the DL section of zen cart, thats an ezpage

look in the admin under tools