oscommerce - oscommerce templates

What is osCommerce?

osCommerce is an online store 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.

Does an osCommerce store need a design?

osCommerce comes with a default design, which is inappropriate because of the lack of information about your shop and the overly neutral look. You should catch your client’s attention at first sight in order not to lose him/her. Therefore, a bright professional online store design is a good tool to make your visitors purchase your product. That is why professional design for osCommerce is in great demand nowadays.

Why use the osCommerce templates?

Unfortunately, unique custom design is too expensive for most osCommerce users. Professionally designed osCommerce templates present an option to obtain a beautiful design for your osCommerce site saving on your budget. The templates cost several times less than custom designed sites, but the design you get is still outstanding and professional, so you avoid worrying about usability, color schemes and other specific features. Besides, the possibility of your customers noticing the sameness in the design of your site and another site based on the same template is virtually inexistent, as according to Google there are more than 8,000,000,000 websites online and the number is constantly increasing.

How are the template installed?

The installation of our osCommerce templates is pretty simple. The requirements are all the same as for the usual osCommerce stores. With every template of ours you get a PDF file with the detailed instructions on the installation process. Besides, you are always welcome to check with our 24/7 support team if any of the instructions turn out to be too complicated or unclear to you.

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OSCOMMERCE:

osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

osCommerce has attracted the largest community for an e-commerce solution that consists of over 96,700 store owners and developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 3,300 add-ons available that have been created by the community to extend the features of an osCommerce online store.

osCommerce combines Open Source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language and the fast MySQL database server. With no special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

With over 6 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 9,000 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide.

Features of osCommerce Platform:

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

Setup / Installation: Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure

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
-o 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

For more info please check www.oscommerce.org

Have a look to our professiona osCommerce Templates and get a professional online business up in no time and at a minimum cost.