oscommerce development

OScommerce services, Custom osCommerce Development, Oscommerce Integration, Oscommerce extentions and Contributions

osCommerce is an ideal solution for those who want to start an on-line business of their own without spending lots of time and money on developing and designing an online store. osCommerce provides a stable e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server.

Why Oscommerce?
Today, Oscommerce has been taken to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution that not only remains easy to setup and maintain, but also making it easier for store administrators to present their stores to their customers with their own unique requirements.

Our Key Service Areas in Oscommerce

• Oscommerce Design Integration
• Oscommerce Customization
• Oscommerce Custom Template and theme development
• Oscommerce Custom modules development
• Oscommerce Website Maintenance and SEO

Administrations Functionality/back end services
You will be able to Add / Edit / Delete products, categories, manufactures, customers and reviews
We enable you to obtain Customer Statistics. Product / Order Statistics
The most sought after feature of your business is Payment. The payment mode is set up such a way that you can process it Automatic via net transactions as well as manual by offline Credit Card processing or payment via checks. It is too with a Flat Rate Shipping Module if you demand

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.

osCommerce combines open source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server.

With no restrictions or special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP enabled web server, on any environment that PHP and MySQL supports, which includes Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

Features
Although osCommerce is still in its development stage, the available Milestone releases are considered to be stable with the following 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 (MS3) 
Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default 

Design / Layout 
Template struture implementation to: 
allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make (MS3) 
allow easy integration into an existing site (MS3) 
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 (MS3) 
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 (2CheckOut, PayPal, 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