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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Open source solutions sound like a good way to get started with online commerce. Thanks for sharing this software info.
Yvonne: You’re welcome. Glad you found this info useful.
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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