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osCommerce
osCommerce Online Merchant is an Open Source
online shop
e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU
General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box
online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to
setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort
and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.
osCommerce has attracted the largest e-commerce
community
that consists of over 170,400 store owners and developers worldwide
with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are
over 4,600 add-ons available that have been created by the
community to extend the features of an osCommerce Online
Merchant online store.
With over 8 years of operation, osCommerce has
built a showcase
of over 12,800 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the
live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online
shops worldwide.
Features
Although osCommerce is still in its development
stage, the
available Milestone releases are considered to be stable with the
following features:
- General Functionality
- Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
- All features enabled by default for a
complete out-of-the-box
solution
- Object oriented backend (3.0)
- Completely multilingual with English,
German, and Spanish
provided by default
- Setup / Installation
- Automatic web-browser based installation
and upgrade
procedure
- Design / Layout
- Template struture implementation to:
- allow layout changes to be adaptive,
easy, and
quickly to make (3.0)
- allow easy integration into an
existing site (3.0)
- Support for dynamic images
- Administration / Backend Functionality
- Supports unlimited products and
categories
- Products-to-categories structure
- Categories-to-categories structure
- Add/Edit/Remove categories, products,
manufacturers,
customers, and reviews
- Support for physical (shippable) and
virtual (downloadable)
products
- Administration area secured with a
username and password
defined during installation
- Contact customers directly via email or
newsletters
- Easily backup and restore the database
- Print invoices and packaging lists from
the order screen
- Statistics for products and customers
- Multilingual support
- Multicurrency support
- Automatically update currency
exchange rates
- Select what to display, and in what
order, in the product
listing page
- Support for static and dynamic banners
with full statistics
- Customer / Frontend Functionality
- All orders stored in the database for
fast and efficient retrieval
- Customers can view their order history
and order statuses
- Customers can maintain their accounts
- Addressbook for multiple shipping
and billing addresses
- Temporary shopping cart for guests and
permanent shopping
cart for customers
- Fast and friendly quick search and
advanced search features
- Product reviews for an interactive
shopping experience
- Forseen checkout procedure
- Secure transactions with SSL
- Number of products in each category can
be shown or hidden
- Global and per-category bestseller lists
- Display what other customers have
ordered with the
current product shown
- Breadcrumb trail for easy site
navigation
- Product Functionality
- Dynamic product attributes relationship
- HTML based product descriptions
- Automated display of specials
- Control if out of stock products can
still be shown and are
available for purchase
- Customers can subscribe to products to
receive
related emails/newsletters
- Payment Functionality
- Accept numerous offline payment
processing (cheque,
money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
- Accept numerous online payment
processing (PayPal,
2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
- Disable certain payment services based
on a zone basis
- Shipping Functionality
- Weight, price, and destination based
shipping modules
- Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS,
FedEx, ..)
- Free shipping based on amount and
destination
- Disable certain shipping services based
on a zone basis
- Tax Functionality
- Flexible tax implementation on a state
and country basis
- Set different tax rates for different
products
- Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping
service basis
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