osCommerce is an online, e-commerce shopping cart solution that offers a wide range of "out-of-the-box" features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease osCommerce is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License. The osCommerce project was started in March of 2000 and has since matured into a solution that is currently being used by thousands of online retailers around the globe. osCommerce is a dynamic project, constantly evolving into a more customer and administrator friendly program.
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Although osCommerce is still considered an unfinished project, the current release of the program is . Listed below are just some of the benefits and features of osCommerce. If your web site is considering a move to osCommerce, feel free to browse our catalog for contribution installations and customizations, or contact us for additional information.
General Functionality
Compatible with all PHP 4 & 5 versions
All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
Completely multilingual (English, German, and Spanish provided by default)
Setup ⁄ Installation
Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure
Administration ⁄ Back End 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
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
Multi-currency 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 ⁄ Front End 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
Address book 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
Step-By-Step checkout procedure
Secure transactions with Secure Socket Layer(SSL) Technology
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 capable 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
