osCommerce Free Shopping Cart Features

osCommerce is one of the most popular open source shopping carts available online. It has been around for quite some time and has used that time to evolve into a top ecommerce solution. Many merchants that use osCommerce prefer to work with a hosting company that provides a 1 click install like Just Host. Through an easy install like this, the MYSQL database is created and merchants can customize osCommerce through an already created admin panel. While this makes things easier, the merchants that find the most success with osCommerce are either PHP experts, or have a developer that they work with regularly. See what osCommerce has to offer in the list of osCommerce features below.

General Functionality

• Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
• All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
• Object oriented backend (3.0)
• 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 (3.0)
  • allow easy integration into an existing site (3.0)
• 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
• 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 (PayPal, 2CheckOut, 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

Payment Gateways

• 2CheckOut
• ipayment
• PSiGate
• AuthorizeNet
• paynova
• SECPay