osCommerce sites

An ECommerce site makes sure you don't fall behind your competition

osCommerce - everything you need to get started in selling on the web

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Accoring to IMRG the pace of growth in ECommerce just get stronger and stronger.

That means that anyone in retail who has not got an ECommerce site is in grave danger of being left behind by their competitors.

We have found that for small and medium sized busineses the Open Source 'market' is the best.

We can build you an osCommerce site. osCommerce is available free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License. osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 in Germany by project founder and leader Harald Ponce de Leon as The Exchange Project.

Since then osCommerce has attracted the largest community for an e-commerce solution that consists of over 14,000 store owners with over 180,000 developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 4,200 add-ons available that have been created by the community to extend the features of an osCommerce online store.

osCommerce combines Open Source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language and the fast MySQL database server. With no special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

With over 6 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 12,000 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide.

osCommerce features

Multilingual with English, German & Spanish

Template structure to allow layout changes and allow easy integration into an existing site

Administration / backend capability

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
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 / front-end capability

All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
Customers can view their order history and order status
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
Foreseen 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 capability

Dynamic product attributes relationship HTML based product descriptions
Automated display of specials
Control of out of stock products
Customers can subscribe to products to receive related EMails/newsletters

Payment capability

Offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
Online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis

Shipping capability

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 capability

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