osCommerce Features

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 structure 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

  • 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

• 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, see payment gateways below)

• 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