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