OsCommerce is the most comprehensive and popular open source Shopping Cart system in existence. It has a huge list of features and is probably the most versatile shopping cart solution and offers vast range of customization choices for the on-line storefront owners depending on their need at a very affordable price.

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce 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 is a complete online store solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend, which can be easily configured over web.

osCommerce is a PHP and mySQL based catalog and shopping cart application that can either be directly integrated into a web site - or – a site can be built around osCommerce as a base. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.

The Latest available Milestone releases are considered to be stable with the following features:

• General Functionality
  • Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
  • All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
  • Object oriented backend (MS3)
  • Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default
• Setup / Installation
  • Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure
• Design / Layout
  • Template struture implementation to:
    • allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make (MS3)
    • allow easy integration into an existing site (MS3)
  • Support for dynamic images
• Administration / Backend Functionality
  • Supports unlimited products and categories
    • Products-to-categories structure
    • Categories-to-categories structure
  • Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
  • Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
  • Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation (MS3)
  • Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
  • Easily backup and restore the database
  • Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
  • Statistics for products and customers
  • Multilingual support
  • Multicurrency support
    • Automatically update currency exchange rates
  • Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
  • Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics
• Customer / Frontend Functionality
  • All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
  • Customers can view their order history and order statuses
  • Customers can maintain their accounts
    • Addressbook for multiple shipping and billing addresses
  • Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
  • Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
  • Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
  • Forseen checkout procedure
  • Secure transactions with SSL
  • Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
  • Global and per-category bestseller lists
  • Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
  • Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
• Product Functionality
  • Dynamic product attributes relationship
  • HTML based product descriptions
  • Automated display of specials
  • Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
  • Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters
• Payment Functionality
  • Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
  • Accept numerous online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
  • Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis
• Shipping Functionality
  • Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
  • Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)
  • Free shipping based on amount and destination
  • Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis
• Tax Functionality
  • Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
  • Set different tax rates for different products
  • Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis

team has customized and successfully deployed several osCommerce applications and in the process, has understood the underlying architecture osCommerce engine to further customize it to the client specific needs.

Example of a CUSTOMISED Oscommerce Shop :
www.iqitech.com

Example of a BASIC Osc Shop :
www.trichyonline.biz/catalog/

Get in touch with us now to get a quote for your customization requirement.

Installation, Hosting of osCommerce

We offer fully featured, fast and reliable web hosting with osCommerce available to install with one click. This is backed up by full support, over 99.9% uptime and excellent technical support !

Our installation services are a great way to get your osCommerce shop up and running with minimum fuss. If you don't have the time, experience or technical knowledge to do it yourself, then this service is for you. Your copy of osCommerce will be installed, configured, secured, tested and ready to go in under 1 hour.

We provide a number of other services to help you take your shop from a standard basic installation to the next level as well as troubleshooting and general help with your existing osCommerce based shop.

Get in touch with us now to get a quote for your custom requirement.