osCommerce Overview
osCommerce Online Merchant is one of a few very good electronic commerce (e-Commerce) solutions in the market place. osCommerce have a feature rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality. It’s a fully customizable shopping cart solution suitable for stores of any size – from SOHO to enterprise size. It has user friendly administration tools to manage your storefront, customers, wish lists, discounts, and coupons.
There is a constantly growing community of developers and a lot of free and paid modules available which means if the specific feature doesn’t come as standard, then it’s likely to be available as a buy-in which means that large custom development costs can be avoided.
osCommerce is subject to on-going improvements and new features in order to keep pace with the competitors and also changes in the search engines and web browsers.
OsCommerce has a PHP core and powered by MySQL database.
We can offer full range of custom osCommerce services
- osCommerce hosting
- osCommerce installation and set-up help
- osCommerce custom configuration
(custom login, custom fields and pages, custom forms and blocks)
- osCommerce management and updating
- Custom osCommerce modules and plug-ins writing
- osCommerce bridging and linking with various open-source and licensed software
- osCommerce themes design and custom templates creation
- osCommerce regular backup and restore
- Migration from and to osCommerce
- Custom osCommerce development
Open-source or licensed
osCommerce Online Merchant is completely open-source and absolutely free for use. This means no upfront costs, just the time to set up and then hosting and any backup charges.
Main uses and applications for osCommerce
osCommerce is ideal for any size eCommerce needs; visual themes and templates can be installed, developed and modified. A lot of translations and extensions are available for free or for small price. osCommerce can be bridged or linked with CRM solutions to have full control of your data.
How do we start
Webefficient complete a detailed review of your requirements so that these can be assessed against the solution being considered if there are missing features we rank these in order to understand the priority and effects on the businesses and if they are not standard features or modules available for free or be purchased or whether this functions is new development and produce estimates. By following a logical approach to the business needs and cost control we don’t waste money!
- Just some of the osCommerce features included (not full list):
- International Support
- Search Engine Optimization
- Analytics and Reporting
- Marketing Promotions and Tools
- Checkout, Payment and Shipping
- Mobile Commerce
- Order Management
- Customer Service
- Customer Accounts
- Catalogue Management
- Payment gateways
Of course you may have a very specific feature that is not available right out-of-the-box. In such case we can offer custom osCommerce modules development and custom osCommerce core modifications to fit your very specific needs.
What to consider when deciding on e-Commerce solution:
Is the solution subject to regular updates so that improvements to the code and functionality are continually being made? Well the answer is Yes.
The size of the community using the solution is more than 250,000 of installations and this has a clear relationship to the improvements plan as large numbers will demand enhancements and improvements.
Is the solution open-source or licenced?
OsCommerce is open-source. This can have an effect on the set up costs and also possible restrictions as if the solution is licenced there may not be the possibility to get access to the full code library which could impact on your needs if you have very specific development improvements in mind that are specific to your business needs.
Hosting and on-going costs are an important factor to consider.
OsCommerce: please check our very special offer of OsCommerce hosting and support.
Ability to link up with or integration\bridging with other software like: shopping carts, address builders, payments gateways, accounts software and newsletter solutions like constant contact and vertical response.
- osCommerce example integration options:
- For various CRMs and ERPs.
- Integration with helpdesks
- Integration with chat support
- Address builders
- Shipping / carrier integrations
Our conclusion
There are a large number of e-Commerce solutions available, but we think osCommerce Online Merchant 3 is one of the better solutions, but before we suggest a particular solution be used we complete a detailed review of your requirements.
Overview (1 tab title)
Overview
- Scoping & Analysis
- Workflow Analysis
- Specification developmnt
- Design
- Development
- Project management
- Testing
- Documentation and user guides
- Support and customisation
- Migrations and upgrades
- API / Integration
Resource (tab 2 title)
Resource
- Wikipedia: osCommerce
- osCommerce site
Special offers & Discounts (tab 3 title)
Special offers & Discounts
- For our web development services, we offer:
- 1) Web 25.
- 2) Discounts for technical resource and customisation work where there is a hosting contract in place.
- 3) Discounts are available for nonprofit organisations.
Quote & Inquiry (tab 4 title)
Quote & Inquiry