DTW Commerce eCommerce Solution

Anyone can download Magento, OSCommerce and Zen Cart's source code. This makes it easy for hackers to analyse the code and take advantage of any security holes that they can find. The solutions DTW would normally use is either custom or paid shopping cart. For custom, no 3rd party will have access to the codes. For paid carts, only the ones paid for it will have access to the codes. As hackers tend to go after easier targets, paying for a cart to find holes is not that great of an opportunity to them when thousands of free open source eCommerce sites are already out there as easy preys.

PCI DSS Compliance: DTW cart can be PCI DSS compliant whereas OSCommerce, Zencart, Magento are non-compliant. If your eCommerce site does not follow the security protocals to keep your customer's credit card information secure or does not become PCI DSS compliant, and there is a breach of customers' credit card information, your business may be fined.

	Magento	OScommerce	Zen Cart	DTW Commerce
Source Code Breach	Security Vulnerability	Security Vulnerability	Security Vulnerability	Secure
Plug-in Breach	Security Vulnerability	Security Vulnerability	Security Vulnerability	Secure
PCI Compliance	Pro and Ent. Only			Available

Search Engine Optimization: SEO, SEF and SEM should be considred the most important and nessasary features of any shopping cart software. If your site does not have the optimum SEO, SEM and SEF implementation, it will not be able to complete in today's competitive market and will not be successful.

	Magento	OScommerce	Zen Cart	DTW Commerce
www & non www		Need configuration	Need configuration
Title, Meta Tags		add-on	add-on
Keyword Friendly URLs		add-on	add-on
Headings	Limited	Limited	Limited
Speed / Performance	Bloated & Slow
Exact pages different URLs	Mis-configured
Image Alt tags	Limited	add-on	add-on
Proper HTML, CSS configuration	Limited	Limited	Limited
Google Site Map		add-on	add-on

Store Design: OScommerce is one of the older e Commerce softwares. OScommerce's code has been developed and kept up using the same legacy style code; this makes the code unmanagable and hard to customize.

Zen Cart is a spin off of the OScommerce software. Therefore, Zen Cart's code is very similar to OScommerce, using same legacy style code, but with an added templeting system and some new functionality. Zen Cart has an added advantage over OScommerce which is its template system. This gives a site owner capability to select a custom template.

Magento is written using a newer based PHP platform (Zend Framework), but it is developed using a heavily layered, complicated and intertwined coding style. This makes Magento one of the most complex softwares to learn, manage, and maintain. It has the lengthiest learning curve of any eCommerce software.

DTW solution is written using the newest, straight-forward PHP with smarty templates. It is module based, which makes adding or customizing features very easy. We build DTW Commerce solutions with design and brand customizations in mind. We build them to make it easy to customize the look and feel by any designer without having to know any programming.

	Magento	OScommerce	Zen Cart	DTW Commerce
Design Customizations	Complicated, Time-consuming, Costly	Tedious	add-on
Feature Customizations	Tedious	Tedious	add-on

Performance: Magento tries to cover every feature under the sun and even features that are rarely used by most online stores. Because of that, it uses hundreds of unnecessary tables and hundreds of thousands of lines of code which makes Magento bloated and slow.