How to Build a Online Store to Sell your Products.
osCommerce (for “Open Source Commerce”) is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License.
Key Features
- Compatible with PHP 4 and MySQL - easily portable to phpV5
- Unlimited number of products and categories
- Multi-lingual English, German and Spanish by default
- Automatic web-based installation
- Automatic setup of e-commerce payment systems: Authorize.net, 2Checkout.com, iPayment.de, PayPal.com, PsiGate.com (out of date), SECPay.com, and TrustCommerce.com; Many other add-on ecommerce payment systems, off-line (insecure use of credit card payments) and on-line payment processing
- Multi-currency support
- Support for dynamic images (one image per product)
- Supports physical products as well as product downloads (needs additional security)
- Web-based administration module
- Database backup and restore (manual)
- Temporary and permanent shopping carts
- Secure transactions with SSL Secure Sockets Layer support
- Many shipping options including by weight, price, or destination
- Real-time shipping quote integration with UPS, USPS.
- Zone-based shipping and free shipping options (hidden in Order Totals Module)
- Full tax functionality, different zones for different products
