DESCRIPTION

osCommerce is a complete online store solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend, which can be easily installed and configured over a web-based installation procedure.

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