osCommerce

Official osCommerce website www.osCommerce.com

osCommerce is an online shop solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an open source based solution released under the GNU General Public License.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has since matured to a solution which is currently powering 981 registered live shops around the world. More >>

What is osCommerce

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.

Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs involved. If you are looking for support information for your OsCommerce shopping cart you can visit their forums at: http://www.oscommerce.com/community.php

Just click to enabled, and osCommerce is installed and your ready to go! All you need is a SSL certificate (not required) and a method of accepting credit cards and you can start selling your products online. See below for info on the SSL and Credit Cards.

osCommerce Features:

Customer Functionality

Customer accounts
Customer address books (other shipping destinations)
Order history
Temporary (not logged on) and permanent (logged on) shopping carts
Search catalog for products or manufacturers
Product reviews by customers
E-mail notifications
Forseen checkout procedure
Secure transactions with SSL (You provide your own SSL certificate)
Number of products in each category are shown
Bestseller lists
Display what other customers have brought (relating to the current product displayed)

Administrative Functionality

New design for user-friendliness
Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
Categories-to-categories structure
Statistics for products and customers
Dynamic product attributes
Tax zones, classes, and rates
Configuration parameters in database for remote editing
Payment and shipping modules
Connection to oanda.com's currency exchange rate servers for multi-currency shops
Decide what to display (and the order) in the product listings
Backup tool

General Functionality

Uses PHP and MySQL
Out-of-the-box functionality
Localization: English, German, and Spanish; plus contributions

Go To the Short Tutorial