osCommerce is an ecommerce platform used to create an online shop- it's an ecommerce solution undergoing continuous development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, 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 ecommerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language and the fast MySQL database server. With no restrictions or special requirements, osCommerce is capable showcasing unlimited products and descriptions.

Feature rich

Ecommerce / Shopping cart Features

General Functionality

• All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
• Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default

Setup / Installation

• Free automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure through our hosting packages.

Design / Layout

• Modify to suit your business
• 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 via our control panel.
• 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
• Multi currency commerce support
• Automatically update currency exchange rates on website
• 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
• Address book 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 - you may use our free SSL certificates
• 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, ..)
• Westpac, Commonwealth bank, St.George, National Australia Bank, Eway are all supported as modules which can be installed.

Shipping Functionality

• Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
• Real-time quotes available (Australia post, Toll, UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)
• Free shipping based on amount and destination
• Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis

Tax Functionality

• Australian GST configurable
• 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