E-commerce Solutions

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature allows store owners to run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.

osCommerce combines open source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server.

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
• orseen checkout procedure
• Secure transactions with SSL
• Number of products in each category are shown
• Bestseller lists Display what other customers have purchased (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
• Not tied together with the catalog module (admin module can be installed on another server)
• 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

osCommerce is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).