osCommerce Online Merchant is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with no limitations involved. We are using the most recent one that is OsCommerce MS2.2. It attempt to be all things to all people, it provides a basic set of functionality that meets the common needs of almost all online businesses. By taking this approach osCommerce has avoided the pitfalls from which many applications (including its own forks) historically suffer: too much functionality, requiring an overly complex implementation.
This does not mean that osCommerce is in any way "basic". Its ability to be augmented, via either community-supplied add-ons or custom code, means that it can be customized to meet the specific needs of any business.
The following is a list of key features of osCommerce MS2.2 :
- Compatible with PHP 4 and MySQL - easily portable to version 5.
- Compatible with all major browsers.
- Multi-lingual English, German and Spanish by default.
- Automatic web-based installation.
- Unlimited number of products and categories.
- Automatic setup of e-commerce payment systems: Authorize.net, 2Checkout.com, iPayment.de, PayPal.com, PsiGate.com, SECPay.com, and TrustCommerce.com; Many other add-on ecommerce payment systems, off-line (manual) credit card payments) and on-line payment processing.
- Multi-currency support via manual update from exchange rate server.
- Support for dynamic images (one image per product).
- Supports physical products as well as product downloads.
- Web-based administration module.
- Database backup and restore.
- Temporary and permanent shopping carts.
- Secure transactions with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support.
- Many shipping options including by weight, price, or destination.
- Real-time shipping quote integration with UPS, USPS.
- Zone-based shipping options as well as a free shipping option as part ofOrder Totals Module.
- Full tax functionality, included compounded taxes, different zones for different products.
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