CoreShop vs. eCommerce Framework
The idea behind CoreShop is totally different to the eCommerce framework. The eCommerce framework gives you skeleton for building eCommerce applications and heavily depends on you doing all the things.
CoreShop, on the other hand, comes full-featured with a rich toolset of optional Components which you can use, or not use, for your ecommerce Application. In other words: CoreShop is the framework on steroids :)
Feature Comparison
| Feature | eCommerce Framework | CoreShop |
|---|---|---|
| Product Management | √ | √ |
| Product Restrictions | X | √ |
| Product Variants | √ | √ |
| Category Management | √ | √ |
| Customer Management | X | √ |
| Customer Address Management | X | √ |
| Localization | X | √ |
| Currency Management | X | √ |
| Country Management | X | √ |
| Taxation | √ | √ |
| Payment Management | √ | √ |
| Supported Payment Providers | ||
| - Wirecard Qpay | √ | √ |
| - Wirecard Seamless | √ | √ |
| - Datatrans | √ | √ |
| - Klarna | √ | √ |
| - Recurring Payments | √ | √ |
| - PayPal Express | X | √ |
| - PayPal Pro Checkout | X | √ |
| - PayPal Pro Hosted | X | √ |
| - PayPal Masspay | X | √ |
| - PayPal Rest | X | √ |
| - Stripe.js | X | √ |
| - Stripe Checkout | X | √ |
| - Authorize.NET AIM | X | √ |
| - Be2Bill Credit Card | X | √ |
| - Be2Bill Offsite | X | √ |
| - Payex | X | √ |
| - Offline | X | √ |
| - Payum and Omnipay | X | √ |
| Voucher Codes | √ | √ |
| Catalog Price Rules | √ | √ |
| Product Specific Price Rules | X | √ |
| Product Facet Index | √ | √ |
| Multi Theme Supported | X | √ |
| Carrier Management | X | √ |
| Shipping Calculation | X | √ |
| Order Management | √ | √ |
| Order Workflow | X | √ |
| Order Invoice Generation | X | √ |
| Order Shipment Generation | X | √ |
| Quotes Management | X | √ |
| Reporting | X | √ |
| Multi Store/Tenant | √ | √ |
| eCommerce Tracking | √ | √ |
| Configurable Mail Rules | X | √ |
| Backend Functionality | ||
| - Country Management | X | √ |
| - Currency Management | X | √ |
| - Taxation Management | X | √ |
| - Taxation Management | X | √ |
| - Index Management | X | √ |
| - Filter Management | X | √ |
| - Order Management | X (partial) | √ |
| - Voucher Rules | √ | √ |
| - Price Rules | √ | √ |
| - Order Overview | X (partial) | √ |
| - Quote Overview | X | √ |
| - Order Detail | X (partial) | √ |
| - Quote Detail | X | √ |
| - Order Creation | X | √ |
| - Quote Creation | X | √ |
| Checkout Manager | √ | √ |
| Modular/Componentized | X (partial) | √ |
| Extendable | √ | √ |
To be fair, both Systems have their purpose and you can do the same with both systems. The ecommerce Framework is designed to be very good extendable but you still need to implement a lot of stuff yourself. CoreShop gives you a lot of out-of-the-box features to quickly create rich ecommerce systems.