osCommerce - a popular e-commerce/online shop solution

osCommerce 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