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Ideal for
small business sites looking
to put a basic
catalog and shopping
cart online, the
osCommerce is a
professionally written
PHP-based application that
runs within your own Linux
virtual server account. It
offers support for all of
the following:
Shopping
- Dynamically
generated product
pages from store's
database
- Run an
html based store
with no database
(requires visitors
to have cookies
enabled or not leave
shopping experience
before completion)
- Link to products
and categories
directly from any
site or
html page
- Customizable
store home page
- Customizable
product headers and
footers
- Upload and store
static
html pages for
product info, store
policies, etc.
- Options files
with multiple option
sets may be created
for use in a single
or in multiple
products
- Discounts can be
offered based on
number or individual
products ordered
and/or order totals
- Automatic links
built to
html files such
as warranty, privacy
policy and other
pages.
Customer
Functionality, as of
Preview Release 2.1
- Customer
accounts
- Customer address
books (other
shipping
destinations)
- Order history
- Temporary (not
logged on) and
permanent (logged
on) shopping carts
- Search
catalog for
products or
manufacturers
- Product reviews
by customers
- E-mail
notifications
- Foreseen
checkout procedure
- Secure
transactions with
SSL
- Number of
products in each
category are shown
- Bestseller lists
- Display what
other customers have
purchased (relating
to the current
product displayed)
Administrative
Functionality, as of
Preview Release 2.1
- New design for
user-friendliness
- Add/Edit/Remove
categories,
products,
manufacturers,
customers, and
reviews
-
Categories-to-categories
structure
- Statistics for
products and
customers
- Dynamic product
attributes
- Tax zones,
classes, and rates
- Configuration
parameters in
database for remote
editing
- Not tied
together with the
catalog module
(admin module can be
installed on another
server)
- Payment and
shipping modules
(2checkout.com,
Authorize.net,
iPayment, PayPal,
PSI Gate, SecPay,
TrustCommerce)
- Connection to
oanda.com's currency
exchange rate
servers for
multi-currency shops
- Decide what to
display (and the
order) in the
product listings
- Backup tool
General
Functionality, as of
Preview Release 2.1
- PHP3/PHP4
compatible
- Out-of-the-box
functionality
- Becoming modular
- Localization:
English, German, and
Spanish; plus
contributions
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