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osCommerce sites
According 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 ecommerce site. As osCommerce is available free (as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License) all you have to pay for is the design and build of the store to your specifications - which means you can compete with just about any 'big player' for a very reasonable price. 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 12,000 store owners with over 200,000 developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 6,500 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
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Some testimonials
"Since eCRM took over maintenance of website and SEO, the number of prospects I received from enquiries through my site has more than doubled! I am currently working with eCRM to plan the next level of development for my website to take it to the next level." Nigel Marriott, Marriott Statistical Consulting
"Great company, very friendly and open communication and ECRM were able to execute our development with a superior level of technical skill. 5 stars." Jon Gray, Workmap
"ECRM built Alexander Simpkin & Associates a web site par excellence that continues to proffer itself on Google first page of free links under the appropriate search entry. I would not hesitate to recommend this organisation to any business requiring any sort of eBusiness advice or execution." Alexander Simpkin, Alexander Simpkin & Associates
"I've used ECRM's services for about 2 years now. They have been very helpful to re-construct my whole website at reasonable rates. Their knowledge on marketing via internet-google has helped me to achieve more enquires, sales, and commissions. They update my pages and we go over my stats. re: google searches every few months to make sure I'm getting the best from my website in marketing terms. I would highly recommend their services". Laura Lian