Magento has become the fastest growing shop cart on the web

This graph shows the trend for search enquiries for Magento vs the strongest competing alternatives. As you can see the graph shows a very strong upwards trend, mirrored by downwards trends by many of its competitors.

The reason for this is that business has realised that they need a feature rich and user friendly platform if they are going to be able to compete effectively.

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The tables below give you an overview of some common carts' features.

General Features

	Source Code Provided	AJAX Usage	Digital Downloads	eBay Listing Integration	eBay Order Import	Multiple Skins	Point of Sale Order Management	Subscriptions	Taxation	Template Engine
Magento	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
osCommerce	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
X-Cart	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zen Cart	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No

Customer features

	Customer Testimonials	Featured Products	Glossary / Tool Tip Words	Image Enlarge	Mini Cart	Multiple Addresses	Newest Products	Newsletter	News	Next / Previous Product Links	Polls	Popular Products	Printer Friendly Printing
Magento	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes (CSS print stylesheet)
osCommerce	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
X-Cart	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zen Cart	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No

Customer features (continued)

	Product Image Attaching	Product Rating	Product Reviews	Quotes	Reordering	Returns	Searching	Search as you Type	Search Cloud	Site Map (Viewable)	Social Bookmarking	Tell a Friend	Wish List
Magento	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
osCommerce	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
X-Cart	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Zen Cart	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No

Customer Reward Features

	Coupons	Gift Certificates	Membership Discounts	Membership Only Categories	Membership Only Products	Reward Points	Special Offers
Magento	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
osCommerce	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
X-Cart	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zen Cart	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No

Administration Area Features

	Product Import / Export	Statistics	Stock Control	WYSIWYG Editor
Magento	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
osCommerce	No	Yes	Yes	No
X-Cart	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zen Cart	No	Yes	Yes	No

Search Engine Optimization Features

	HTML Catalog	Meta Tagging	RSS Feeds	SEO URLs	Site Map (XML)	GoodRelations RDFa
Magento	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
osCommerce	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
X-Cart	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Zen Cart	No	No	No	No	No	No

Security Features

	Access Control List	Form CAPTCHA	Staff Action Logging
Magento	Yes	No	Enterprise Version
osCommerce	Yes	No	No
X-Cart	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zen Cart	No	No	No