Article : Diving into Drupal E-Commerce: An Ubercart vs. E-commerce Comparison

While I've built oven a dozen Drupal-based websites spanning almost 2 years, my contact with e-commerce within Drupal has been limited. Two of my latest projects brought me face to face with a need for e-commerce, though, and while I toyed with the idea of using ZenCart once again, after installing it and relearning how to work with it, I immediately uninstalled it and turned back to Drupal.

Faced with two choices, Ubercart and the e-Commerce modules, I was left a bit bewildered. Back when Drupal was still in 4.6, I used e-Commerce for a website where users were rewarded with points via the Userpoints module, and with these points were able to purchase items using E-commerce. It worked well but because it was when I was still very new to Drupal, I remembered it being cumbersome, difficult to configure, and just a big headache, and that was without needing an actual merchant account or payment gateway.

NOTE: These evaluations are based on using Drupal 5.2 with eCommerce 3.3 and Ubercart Alpha7b.

So, for all these reasons when an e-commerce site fell into my lap a couple months ago, I chose Ubercart.

Another project came my way shortly after which used a variation of modules that led me to believe e-Commerce was the way to go, plus I wanted to know how well it held up in comparison - so for that project, I chose e-Commerce.

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