There are a variety of shopping cart software options available in today’s market. The best way to find out which e-commerce platform fits your business needs is to be aware of and understand the different features each offers. Distinguishing between a hosted or self-hosted platform, ease of use, scalability and price are all features to consider when deciding which platform option to go for. Magento and 3dcart are two great e-commerce platforms for designing a shopping cart and selling products online. Each holds its own advantages, distinctive elements and drawbacks and for you to get a richer image of what each platform can do, it is best to look at them in comparison.
1. Easy to use (Winner: 3dcart)
Although Magento 2 has a powerful admin configuration with a friendly interface, it is hard to win in this option because it’s a robust and heavily feature-laden platform and is not an amateur’s playground. 3dcart offers wonderful tutorials and setup steps to help you do everything and it is a great choice for beginners.
2. Pricing (Winner: Magento)
3dcart provides five plans for you to choose and merchants have to pay the monthly fee. In 3dcart, customers can try 15 days for free before the real start. This selection is quite helpful for customers making the right decision. Here are full the package of 3dcart:
For many people, pricing is the most important factor in deciding which platform to use and Magento 2 solves this problem easily. Magento 2 provides a free version which makes it a great choice for most merchants who don’t have huge budgets with all basic features for your store. Moreover, Magento 2 brings more options for you with the Enterprise Edition package to make your store more and more professional. This package demands the cost that depends on the size and needs of your website. However, merchants will need a dedicated hosting service. Merchants also pay a monthly fee but if you want to grow your store further away with higher traffic, you will need it. For example, Magento 2 CMS Builder Extension can help you config your front-end effortlessly and visually, with the price available from just $0.
3. Features
Capabilities
While Magento 2 is an open-source which means you can sell your products globally, 3dcart only strong interest in the US, but nowhere else. The limit of 3dcart makes it hardly win in this option. 3dcart also provides an app store with under 100 add-on extensions but comparing with over 5000 add-on extensions for Magento 2, it is not worth considering. Magento 2 can come with more frontend features for shoppers such as coupon codes Generate, Gift cards, customer dashboards, related products and so on which make your website professionally and successfull
Themes and Templates
The truth is there is no platform that offers better themes than Magento 2 because they are not limited by templates and built-in design. This is the main reason that Magento 2 is the first idea in merchants’ mind when they are looking for a platform for their online store.
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Claue – Clean, Minimal Magento 2&1 Theme is an excellent template for a modern and clean eCommerce store with 40+ homepage layouts and tons of options for shop, blog, portfolio, store locator layouts and other useful pages. Claue version 2. 0 comes with a bunch of exclusive features including:
- Being based on Luma theme.
- Meet all standards of Magento Theme
- Significant performance improvement
- Compatible with most third-party extensions.
- Fully compatible with Magento 2.4.x
Compared to Magento 2 and 3dcart the collection of themes offered by 3dcart shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence. Although 3dcart offers lots of themes, it is difficult to call it creativity.
Multi-languages capabilities
Both Magento 2 and 3dcart have powerful multilingual which turns your site into any language you want.
- SEO capabilities
In 3dcart, the SEO setting seems difficult and once again, Magento can go head to head in this department. Thanks to SEO optimization, the star ratings, product pricing and stock status will appear directly from the search engine results. Magento 2 also supports free and paid Better SEO extension to help admin easily configure and manage the SEO of their sites.
4. Security
Nowadays, the security of customer information is the most important thing. According to a study, more than 30,000 sites are hacked every day and your store must be reliable protection.
3dcart is Level 1 PCI compliant, which means that you get the same security used by large financial institutions and banks. They also give you a free SSL certificate with your plan.
Magento 2 allows you to implement security measurements. Magento 2 also provides strong security for your online store with your own hosting and CDN which helps to speed up your website, support high traffic loads and protect it from invaders.
5. Support
3dcart has the support team 24/7 for customers as well as chat and email. You can call the company anytime or send the email for them, they will support you to solve your troubles when you configure in your website. You will be supported by one or two supporters of 3dcart company and the support is limited in the knowledge of 3dcart company.
In contrast, Magento 2 has a vast community that includes experienced merchants, partners, professional developers from around the world that mean you can discuss and share all of Magento related issues.
So what is the best CMS for you?
Deciding on the best e-commerce platform, Magento or 3dcart, ultimately comes down to your business needs. Knowing the benefits, drawbacks and distinctive elements of each platform will put you in a better position to decide on the software used to build your store.
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