osCommerce is a premium shopping cart, catalog, online store system without the premium price. The osCommerce cart and catalog can be customized with over 7,700 options to achieve your business objectives. There are over 288,743 osCommerce stores world wide.
Most importantly you have complete access to and total control of your online store and data. There are no subscriptions to 3rd party vendors and all orders and payment processing is just as secure.
The current version is completely responsive and mobile compliant to work on either desk top or mobile devises equally well.
osCommerce is so flexible it allows for complete customization of the design and function giving you a unique ordering system. If there is a particular buying process that is required it can be done using osCommerce. This makes it less expensive than a custom e-commerce system while keeping the ability of updates and add-ons that an off-the-shelf system provides.
Main osCommerce features
- Unlimited number of products
- Unlimited categories and sub-categories
- Unlimited product options with price adjustments
- Unlimited pricing levels (wholesale, retail, separate dealers…)
- Unlimited sales or specials
- Unlimited featured products
- Category description and image
- Search by new products, sales, name, price, category, manufacturer, and custom fields
- Cross-selling or suggestive selling
- Dynamic product attributes relationship
- WYSIWYG HTML based product descriptions
- Automated display of specials
- Control if out-of-stock products can still be shown and sold
- Quantity discount price break points
- Discount on order total or total products
- Available discount on products from one category
- Multiple shipping calculation methods
- Multiple secure payment options
- Automatic state tax calculation
- Featured product
- Multiple product images
- Click to enlarge product images or hover and zoom
- Automatic new product identification
- Personalization options for customized gifts
- Multiple option types
- Spec sheet, diagrams, instructions links
- Invoices and packing lists
- Manufacturers
Customer information
- Promotional mail programs
- Wish lists
- Available repeat order list
- Discount Manager – Create discount codes for customers or groups of customers (i.e.,wholesale accounts)
- Promotion Manager – Create any number of sales promotions
- All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
- Customers receive an email when their order status changes
- Customers can review their order history and order statuses
- Customers can maintain all aspects their accounts
- Address book for multiple shipping addresses
- Product reviews
- Global and per-category bestseller lists
- Customers also bought
- Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
- Email order notification
- Email customer order confirmation
- Recommended Products
- Guest checkout
Administration / Backend Functionality
- Multiple user administration
- Multiple products to multiple categories relationship
- Categories-to-categories relationships
- 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
- Easily backup and restore the database
- Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
- Statistics for products and customers
- Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
- Quick update of multiple products
- Customer order status change notification
- Editable home page
- Edit order
Promotional Functionality
- Affiliate sales programs
- Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics
- Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
- Social media integration
Search Engine Features
- Search engine friendly URLs (page and product links without a question mark)
- Page title, description, and keyword meta tags are filled in automatically from page and product content.
- Available manual meta tag entry
Payment processing
- Secure transactions with SSL
- Payment options include credit cards, e-check, P.O., C.O.D., Phone/Fax, and PayPal
- Numerous payment processing gateway choices
- Use Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
- Instantly e-mail the buyer with any order issues
Information Pages
- Fully editable information pages for customer testimonials, products specifications, instructions, or any other content desired.
- Automatic navigation is generated when pages are created, deleted, or suspended.
- Individual meta title and description tags for each page.
Some of the osCommerce modules/plugins include:
- Dynamic pricing
- Payment processing options
- Shipping methods options
- Discounting
- Wholesale
- Separate pricing per customer
- Minimum order amount of quantity
- International shipping
- New products box or slide show
- Recently viewed
- Year, make and model search
- Affiliate program management
- Option images
- Option SKUs
- Option templates
- Product documentation
- Minimum order amounts or quantities
- Reports – sales, products, customers
- Product, customer, or orders import/export
- Support tickets
For osCommerce help, or a new osCommerce site, please contact us.
