osCommerce is the leading open source online shop e-commerce solution available today. 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.

osCommerce utilizes 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 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.

Custom osCommerce Programming and osCommerce Modifications

Service Internet Solutions' programmers specialize in custom osCommerce programming, adding new and improved functionality or added convenience. Like many e-commerce solutions, making modifications can be cumbersome and not easily accomplished if you don't have the proper experience. Below is a short list of osCommerce customized enhancements we have done for our clients.

• osCommerce Search Engine Optimization (SEO) enhancement to allow for specific meta description tags and title tags on a per category and / or product basis (read more about osCommerce optimization in our article section).
• Purchase without an Account
• Custom Discount Schemes based upon quantity, category, manufacturer or individual products.
• Custom Page Layouts
• Visitor Country Detection and redirect to specific categories and / or products or pages.
• Custom Payment Gateway Integration
• Product Level Sort via the admin to display products in the order you choose.

Service Internet Solutions can customize osCommerce to specifically fit your business needs.

osCommerce Standard Features

A partial list of osCommerce features:

• 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
  • Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
  • Statistics for products and customers
     
• 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
  • Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
  • Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
     
• Product Functionality
  
  • HTML based product descriptions
  • Automated display of specials
  • Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
   
• Payment Functionality
  
  • Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
  • Accept numerous online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
   
• Shipping Functionality
  
  • Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
  • Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)