Comparison between Prestashop and CS Cart eCommerce System
Hello friends, thanks for good response our previous article Comparison between Magento and CS-Cart eCommerce System on Twitter and Facebook.
We are comparison CS-Cart with another famous eCommerce system called Prestashop. Both Prestashop and CS-Cart use their own inbuilt PHP MVC pattern.
Our development team has to find Prestashop has such good features like Front-end and Back-end Speed, Product Comparison, URL Rewriting, HTML5 Image Uploader, Taxes, Stores Locator etc. and the Same area CS-Cart has great features like Back-end Design, Product Filters, Coupons, Banner Management, Multi Warehouse etc. Lets checkout feature wise main difference between Prestashop (Ver 1.5) and CS-Cart (Ver 4.0) :
| A. Basic | Prestashop | CS-Cart |
| 1. Open source | Yes(100%) | Yes(100%) |
| 2. Framework | Prestashop | CS-Cart |
| 3. MVC Structure | Good | Good |
| 4. Front-end Speed | Pretty Well | Good |
| 5. Back-end Speed | Pretty Well | Good |
| 6. Mobile | Average | Good |
| 7. Multi-store | Average | Average |
| 8. Multi-vendor | None | Good |
| B. UED (User Environment Design) | Prestashop | CS-Cart |
| 9. Front-end Design | Good | Not bad |
| 10. Back-end Design | Pretty Well | Perfect |
| 11. Responsive/Adaptive | None | None |
| 12. Easy Design | None | Perfect |
| 13. AJAX-based | Good | Average |
| 14. Shopping Experience | Good | Good |
| 15. Admin Experience | Good | Pretty Well |
| C. Catalog | Prestashop | CS-Cart |
| 16. Cross Selling | Good | Good |
| 17. Product Comparison | Pretty well | Pretty well |
| 18. Wishlist | Good | Good |
| 19. Intelligent Recommendations | Not bad | Not bad |
| 20. Product Reviews | Not bad | Bad |
| 21. Product Filters | None | Perfect |
| 22. HTML5 Image Uploader | Pretty well | None |
| 23. Import/Export | Bad | Good |
| 24. Bulk Product Update | None | Good |
| D. SEO | Prestashop | CS-Cart |
| 25. SEO Score | 78% | 95% |
| 26. URL Rewrite | Pretty well | Pretty well |
| 27. Canonical URL | None | None |
| E. Promotions | Prestashop | CS-Cart |
| 28. Coupons | Good | Perfect |
| 29. Gift Certificates | None | Good |
| 30. Free Shipping | Not bad | Not bad |
| 31. Discounts | Not bad | Perfect |
| 32. Affiliates | None | Good |
| 33. Newsletters | Not bad | Good |
| 34. Reward Points | None | Good |
| 35. Sell On eBay | Good | None |
| F. CMS | Prestashop | CS-Cart |
| 36. News or Blog | None | Average |
| 37. Custom Contact Form | None | Perfect |
| 38. Polls | None | Not bad |
| 39. Banners Management | Not bad | Perfect |
| 40. Testimonials | None | Not bad |
| 41. Email Templates | Bad | Not bad |
| G. Order | Prestashop | CS-Cart |
| 42. Return Requests | Not bad | Good |
| 43. Recurring Plans | None | Good |
| 44. Packing Slips | Average | Good |
| 45. Order Statuses | Pretty well | Good |
| 46. Abandoned Cart | None | Average |
| 47. Multi-languages | Pretty well | Good |
| 48. Multi-currencies | Good | Good |
| 49. Multi-warehouse | None | Perfect |
| 50. Taxes | Pretty well | Pretty well |
| 51. Store Locator | Pretty well | Good |
In above-mentioned points, CS-Cart is winning again Best eCommerce System Race over Prestashop and providing more functionalities in the default installation, here we (Ezeelive Technologies – CS-Cart Development Company in India) are saying Prestashop continues working on their Features and every release they are coming with some great features. So friends, Race between Prestashop and CS-Cart not yet Over.
Note: The feature list and rating on bases of design, development, implementation and testing experience by Prestashop and CS-Cart experts team.
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