E-commerce: osCommerce Features

OsCommerce is the most comprehensive and popular open source Shopping Cart system in existence. It has an extensive feature list and is one of the most flexible shopping cart solutions. It has a wide range of customization options for the e-commerce website owner - all at an affordable price.

osCommerce is an 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 e-commerce system that provides both a catalog front-end and an administration tool back-end.

osCommerce is a PHP/MySQL based catalog and shopping cart application that can either be directly integrated into an existing website - or a website can be built around osCommerce as a base. Its allows store owners to maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved. The only cost to you is installation and any required customization.

Available osCommerce Services | E-commerce... Getting Started

osCommerce Feature List:

General Functionality
- Compatible with PHP 4 and higher
- 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
- Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure
Administration / Backend
- 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 and virtual (e.g. software or electronic files) products
- 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 / Front-end 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
- Complete 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, PSiGate, etc...)
- Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis
Shipping Functionality
- Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
- Real-time quotes available (Canada Post, 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