osCommerce Integration and Customization Solution
OSCommerce is an Open Source online shop ecommerce solution. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed.
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, license fees or limitations involved.
Advantages of OSCommerce
- It is a very good, full-featured, cart. Uses Php and MySQL.
- Supports a wide range of credit-card processors and shipping services.
- It uses an indexed database and can handle a large number of products (10's of thousands).
- Most Hosting companies include installation as Readymade Scripts. One of the main benefits of osCommerce is that If your hosting company doesn't install oscommerce you may still be able to install it yourself or have someone install it for you.
- osCommerce would be hard to compete with even if it cost as much as the most expensive commercial shopping carts.
- There are a large number of available add-on modules and many more in development.
Features of OS Commerce:-
Although osCommerce is still in its development stage, the available Milestone releases are considered to be stable with the following features:
- 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
- Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure
- Design / Layout
- 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
- Supports unlimited products and categories
- 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
- Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
- Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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