OsCommerce is the most comprehensive and popular open source Shopping Cart system in existence. It has an extensive feature list and is one of the most flexible shopping cart solutions. It has a wide range of customization options for the e-commerce website owner – all at an affordable price. The team of OsCommerce experts for OsCommerce Installation, Integration, template design, custom modules, programming, payment gateway, development and Customization of OsCommerce Ecommerce Platform.
It was started in March 2000 in Germany by project founder and leader Harald Ponce de Leon as The Exchange Project. As of August 2008, the osCommerce site says that there are over 14,000 ‘live’ websites using the program.This number is almost certainly conservative, given the inclusion of osCommerce in hosting panel application installers such as Fantastico Delux,and Softaculous. The backlink growth somewhat depends upon osCommerce users linking their sites into the osCommerce Live Stores listings. In November 2010 the development of osCommerce v2.2 was met with another stable release. Version 2.3, as it was branded, takes advantage of the benefits of tableless web design, and includes a number of social networking tools. Version 3.0 is currently being developed and is a major re-write of the program to incorporate an object-oriented backend, a template system to allow easy layout changes, and inclusion of an administration-area username and password definition during installation. The latest development version is 3.0.2, and was released on 6 August 2011
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
Design / Layout
- Template structure 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
- 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
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
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
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
For more details visit http://www.oscommerce.com/ and download it.
