| Ecommerce has become the buzz of the day !! | | | | e-commerce platform, which includes the |
| The Internet success stories revolving around | | | | powerful PHP web scripting language, the |
| Ecommerce, Online selling or shopping has | | | | stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL |
| been increasing day by day and the late | | | | database server. With no special |
| thinkers are losing a huge market. | | | | requirements, osCommerce is able to run on |
| | | | any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on |
| The advent of online payment gateways, | | | | Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft |
| improvement in Supply chain management and | | | | Windows environments. |
| paucity of time to go to the physical stores | | | | |
| have been the root reasons for the growth in | | | | Features : - |
| online business. But just thinking about | | | | |
| one's own Ecommerce site makes one shudder | | | | · Oscommerce is template based and offers |
| due to huge investments required. The branded | | | | complete scope of customization. |
| or customized Ecommerce solutions start at | | | | |
| exorbitant price and the maintenance charges | | | | · The Backend to manage the site offers |
| also come out be pretty high. | | | | support for unlimited product categories and |
| | | | products; both virtual and physical. |
| So, when the opportunity is so attractive and | | | | Multilingual, multi currency support, |
| investment potential low, open source | | | | database backup and restore facility, stock |
| solutions come into sight. The open source | | | | availability, invoices and customer relation |
| solutions have changed the way web based | | | | management are inbuilt modules. |
| sites and softwares are running. The | | | | |
| community development, open source nature, | | | | · The Frontend offers customers to browse |
| low cost of ownership (virtually free) and | | | | complete catalog with ease, wishlists, |
| high ROI are basic ingredient of Open Source | | | | personal accounts with purchase history and |
| Solutions.osCommerce (available as free | | | | multiple billing and shipping addresses, and |
| download from is the most comprehensive and | | | | many other user friendly features to make the |
| popular open source Shopping Cart system on | | | | overall shopping a nice experience. |
| Internet. It has a huge list of features and | | | | |
| is probably the most versatile shopping cart | | | | · Payment module covers numerous offline |
| solution and offers vast range of | | | | payment processing (cheque, money orders, |
| customization choices for the on-line | | | | offline credit care processing, ..) and |
| storefront owners depending on their need at | | | | online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, |
| a very affordable price. The basic script can | | | | Authorize.net, iPayment, ..) |
| be downloaded totally free with complete | | | | |
| source code. The costs of customization and | | | | · The shipping and tax module fulfils |
| hosting are the only implicated costs which | | | | almost all the major requirements. |
| when compared with other solutions, will be | | | | |
| meager.osCommerce is an online shop | | | | Apart from these features, there are |
| e-commerce solution that offers a wide range | | | | thousands of contributions developed by |
| of out-of-the-box features that allows online | | | | efficient developers and companies. The |
| stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, | | | | online forum support on at is very popular |
| and is released under the GNU General Public | | | | and no nonsense forum where any post |
| License. osCommerce is a complete online | | | | regarding any query, error gets answered. The |
| store solution that contains both a catalog | | | | community development and maintenance has |
| frontend and an administration tool backend, | | | | played a major role in developing such a huge |
| which can be easily configured over web. | | | | success of Oscommerce. |
| osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has | | | | |
| since matured to a solution that is currently | | | | So, the basic shopping cart enables one to |
| powering 6,204 registered live shops around | | | | start a readymade Ecommerce site in minimum |
| the world. | | | | time and minimal costs. |
| | | | |
| Requirements : osCommerce utilizes Open | | | | When all else fails, so has your hard disk |
| Source solutions to provide a free and open | | | | send it to a technician for servicing. |