OSCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution. It is one of the most versatile shopping cart solution and offers vast range of customization options to online store owners depending on their need at an affordable price. OS Commerce 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 fast MySQL database server. OS Commerce is a complete online store solution that contains both a catalog front end and an administration tool backend.

Some of the features include:

?Supports unlimited products and categories

oProducts-to-categories structure

oCategories-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

?Multi currency support

?Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page

?Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics

Customer / Front end 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

oAddress 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

?For seen 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

Intellinet System team has customized and successfully deployed several osCommerce applications and in the process, has understood the underlying architecture osCommerce engine to further customize it to the client specific needs.

Dimension India also offers following open source customization services:

?Open Source Community portals - PHP-Nuke / Post-Nuke

?Open Source Search Engines - ASPSeek

?Open Source Software Issue Trackers - Bugzilla / PHPbt

?Open source content management systems - OpenCms

Mona Greenwood is the expert of Oscommerce Services India