osCommerce: Open Source Online Merchant Solution
If you’re thinking of setting up an online shop on your own site, then you might want to consider using osCommerce. It is currently available as an open source software (translation: free of charge!). And, some hosting services even offer easy install options.
The latest release also include Paypal as payment gateway.
Other payment solutions that work with osCommerce include: 2Checkout, iPayment, and PayNova, among others.
Some features of osCommerce include:
- Multilingual support
- Unlimited products and categories functions
- Product reviews
- Customer communication
- Customers can set up and maintain their own accounts
- Multi-currency support
- Invoices
- Back-up of data
- Statistics from customers and products
- Extendability through add-ons
- … plus many others
If you’ve used - or still use - osCommerce as an application for your online store, do let us know what you think of it.
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3 opinions for osCommerce: Open Source Online Merchant Solution
Yvonne Russell (Home Biz Notes)
Mar 28, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Open source solutions sound like a good way to get started with online commerce. Thanks for sharing this software info.
Shai Coggins
Mar 31, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Yvonne: You’re welcome. Glad you found this info useful.
Shankar
Apr 18, 2008 at 5:58 pm
OSC is not for the lay person. You need to be a good programmer to even do a small modification to your store. If anyone has better suggestions on other carts, I’m keen. Drupal has one, but dont know what it’s worth.
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